Douglas Hyde famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Every craggy and gnarled tree has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.
-- Douglas Hyde

#Tree #Legends #Strange
As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power.
-- Douglas Hyde

#Educational #Passing Away #Culture
I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it.
-- Douglas Hyde

#Character #Helping #Celtic
It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.
-- Douglas Hyde

#Way #Language #Shame
By Anglicising ourselves we have thrown away with a light heart the best claim we have upon the world's recognition of us as a seperate nationality...the notes of nationality, our language and customs.
-- Douglas Hyde

#Heart #Light #World
I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried
-- Douglas Hyde

#Wish #Language #Share
The Gaelic League is founded not upon hatred of England, but upon love of Ireland. Hatred is a negative passion; it is powerful - a very powerful destroyer; but it is useless for building up. Love, on the other hand, is like faith; it can move mountains, and faith, we have mountains to move.
-- Douglas Hyde

#Powerful #Moving #Passion
Youth is a period of idealism. The Communists attract young people by appealing directly to that idealism. Too often, others have failed either to appeal to it or to use it and they are the losers as a consequence. We have no cause to complain if, having neglected the idealism of youth, we see others come along, take it, and harness it to their cause - and against our own.
-- Douglas Hyde

#People #Complaining #Use

A tree full of ripened fruits bows down naturally, because of the weight of the fruits and its willingness to make its fruits accessible to others.
He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him...
Listen ... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees And fall.
I guarantee that the seed you plant in love, not matter how small, will grow into a mighty tree of refuge. We all want a future for ourselves and we must now care enough to create, nurture and secure a future for our children.â€
Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes.
I'm a legend in this sport. If you don't believe me, ask me
We have reached a strange new place in marketing when tweets become full-page print ads,
Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in history are condemned to live for those who, like themselves, cannot live; in fact, for the humiliated.
Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.

Douglas Hyde famous quotes

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