"Being a kid myself, I loved playing and I loved playing with words, and making up things and riddles and songs and not afraid of being silly in public."

-- Malachy McCourt

#Song Quotes #Silly Quotes #Kids Quotes

“People are so cheap. Everyone wants quality, no one wants to pay for it. Here's the suburban dream-- to hire great workers who are such meek morons that they don't have the guts to ask for a living wage.”
“The old order, it is good for the old. A farmer wants his son to be afraid of beautiful women, so that he will not leave home too soon, so he tells a story about how one drowned his brotherâ€™s cousinâ€™s friend in a lake, not because he was a pig who deserved to be drowned, but because beautiful women are bad, and also witches. And it doesnâ€™t matter that she didnâ€™t ask to be beautiful, or to be born in a lake, or to live forever, or to not know how men breathe until they stop doing it.”
“My mother and I were like two continents moving slowly but inexorably apart; my father, the bridge builder, constantly extending the fragile edifice he had constructed to connect us.”
“Don't get discouraged. As far as I'm concerned, a positive attitude is the most important attribute any runner can have. You'll need it often. Every runner has bad days, every runner has occasional injuries, and every runner eventually slows down (take it from someone who has slowed down a lot). But as long as you maintain a positive attitude, you'll find ways to overcome the obstacles and continue running. After all, running offers countless rewards. It's simply up to you to find the ones that have the most meaning for you.”
“The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual - bearing on the listener. It's rare that a song grounded in reality moves me because I don't feel like I'm getting the whole story. Songs are made to exist in and of themselves, like a great James Jones or Robert Louis Stevenson novel - they're not autobiographical, and yet there's a reality in every single page. It's real life of the imagination.”
“In this world, you must be a bit too kind to be kind enough.”
“Life's too short not to forgive.”
“I think if you've managed Celtic or Rangers you can go on to be Prime Minister of Great Britain, it's that hard.”

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