Tipperary Quotes

#1. My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained as an electrical engineer, and my mom is in microbiology.

John Collison

#2. I'm used to riding horses. My father used to breed horses when I was a child. I grew up in Tipperary, in the country, and lots of people have horses there.

Kerry Condon

#3. But that was the beauty of this particular game. The moment you lost, you won.

Paul Auster

#4. You have to trust the people who work with you and hire, but also listen to as many smart people as you can.

George Stroumboulopoulos

#5. She felt her strong young body that she had never appreciated when she had it, constantly worrying that she didn't meet standards of beauty and not understanding how standards of health were so much more important.

Jo Walton

#6. Who teaches young people to be so exquisitely sensitive to perceived slights, so ready to read affronts into routine events in everyday life? Their teachers no doubt.

George F. Will

#7. Anyone who doesn't fear God, has no idea at all about Him.

Toba Beta

#8. Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it.

Francis Bacon

#9. The Internet doesn't like you to learn too much about explosives.

John Updike

#10. There was nothing very cheerful about the cold, and yet there was an air of cheerfulness that the cleverest summer air and brightest summer sun couldn't have compared with. Everyone was in this together.

David Levithan

#11. People have to be reminded that unions played a very historic role in our economy.

Hilda Solis

#12. For a long time I've lived with the inadequacy of that frame to tell everything I knew, and I think a lot about what is outside of the frame ...

Susan Meiselas

#13. Half-formed ideas, they float around. They come from different places, and the mind has got this wonderful way of somehow just shoveling them around until one day they fit. They may fit not so well, and then we go for a bike ride or something, and it's better."12

Walter Isaacson

#14. Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#15. We are positive about our win and we know that our match was perhaps not as physical as the other matches on the weekend, so I think we have an advantage in that we have an extra day to recover.

Naka Drotske