Quotes by Irish/Ireland authors (page 40)

"In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion"

John Hume, Politician

"The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse"

Jack Lynch, Statesman

"We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate"

George William Russell, Writer

"You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave"

Frank McCourt, Author

"My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn"

Frank McCourt, Author

"I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so"

Frank McCourt, Author

"I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book"

Frank McCourt, Author

"I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in"

Frank McCourt, Author

"First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family"

Frank McCourt, Author

"When people are divided, the only solution is agreement"

John Hume, Politician

"They divided the city into three electoral wards, and in one ward there was 70 percent of the people, the Catholic population, and they elected eight representatives to the city council"

John Hume, Politician

"Therefore they should come to the table and reach an agreement that would protect their identity"

John Hume, Politician

"There were two mentalities, and both mentalities had to change. There was what I called the Afrikaner mind set of the Unionist politicians, which was holding all power in their own hands, and discriminating, and their objective was to protect their identity"

John Hume, Politician

"The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about"

John Hume, Politician

"That's the strategy that myself and my party have pursued and are pursuing"

John Hume, Politician

"People were so keen to get investment. In those days, there was quite significant unemployment in Northern Ireland, and that had been the general pattern in Northern Ireland for many, many years"

John Hume, Politician

"In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of the people and that gave no victory to either side"

John Hume, Politician

"I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A secondary school, which technically was an independent school, it was not part of the state educational system"

John Hume, Politician

"I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination"

John Hume, Politician

"Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality"

George William Russell, Writer

"I wouldn't even mention myself in the same breath as someone like big Paul"

Kenny Cunningham, Athlete

"I never felt I would get to the stage where I would to have to actively think about retiring from international football as I always thought it would pass me by"

Kenny Cunningham, Athlete

"I became more confident within myself and matured as a person and become a little bit more opinionated - maybe the lads might say a little bit too opinionated for their liking but that is just a natural progression for a player"

Kenny Cunningham, Athlete

"Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel"

Jane Porter, Novelist

"Seek on earth what you have found in heaven"

George William Russell, Writer

"After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor"

George William Russell, Writer

"People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed. The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it"

Jane Porter, Novelist

"Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame"

Jane Porter, Novelist

"The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear"

John Hume, Politician

"In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that don't change in a week or a fortnight - was the new educational system"

John Hume, Politician

"I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people"

John Hume, Politician

"Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast"

George William Russell, Writer

"The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher"

Frank McCourt, Author

"I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food"

Frank McCourt, Author

"Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow"

Frank McCourt, Author

"We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely"

Frank McCourt, Author

"I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book"

Frank McCourt, Author

"I never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips"

James Larkin, Activist

"We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral"

James Larkin, Activist

"The employers cannot carry on industry nor accumulate profits if they have not got the good will of the workers or their acquiescence in carrying on such industry"

James Larkin, Activist

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Quotes by Irish authors