"People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests; bullying school masters; the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years. Above all -- we were wet."

-- Frank McCourt

#Mother Quotes #Bullying Quotes #Father Quotes

“There is a growing consensus that Globalization must now be reshaped to reflect values broader than simply the freedom of capital.”
“A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was able to send thoughts and feelings from her mind to her reader's. It was a magical process, so commonplace that no one stopped to wonder at it.”
“I've become a captive of my own ambitions.”
“It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.”
“It is in fact a part of the function of education to help us escape, not from our own time - for we are bound by that - but from the intellectual and emotional limitations of our time.”
“The old Victorian laws against homosexuality were still on the statute books until the early 1990s. As a gay man living in Ireland, I and people like me found it easy to feel less than citizens.”
“Further south, there are some airports, but none our size. Our airport is the gateway to the southern Kansas City.”
“I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.”

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