Seamus Heaney Quotes

No bit of the natural world is more valuable or more vulnerable than the tree bit. Nothing is more like ourselves, standing upright, caught between heaven and earth, frail at the extremities, yet strong at the central trunk, and nothing is closer to us at the beginning and at the end, providing the timber boards that frame both the cradle and the coffin.

Seamus Heaney

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• I've never pretended that I'm not female and vulnerable. To me, it's just being honest.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Honest
  • Female
  • Vulnerable

• I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Country
  • Species

• A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • World
  • Painting
  • Opinions

• I'm very close with my higher power. I have a very strong connection with it.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Power
  • Strong
  • Connection

• I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• I grew up believing that my parents helped change the world. I was so in awe of them, and I wondered how I could measure up. I mean, how do you change the world - again?

  

  Tananarive Due
  • Up
  • World
  • Parents

• The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Believe
  • Incredible

• As a child, I went to peace and ERA marches on the back of my mom and grandmother. Through them I learned that I wanted to find a way to make the world a more kind, compassionate place.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • World
  • Peace
  • Mom

• I do not like carving the world into segments; we are one world.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • World
  • Like
  • Carving

• If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Environment
  • Chaos

• We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in life that we undervalue and take them for granted. If you think of the classic lines of the modern jet aircraft, it's really been there since early World War II.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in the world that you can't choose for yourself - you have to be chosen.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • People
  • World
  • Career

• The Muslim Brotherhood is the parent organization of extreme ideology. They are the godfather of all terrorist organizations. They spread it all over the world.

  

  Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
  • World
  • Organization
  • Parent

• When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • World
  • Love
  • Freedom

• Whenever possible, I use local, fresh ingredients, just because it tastes and feels better to eat an egg or a tomato or a hamburger that wasn't flown halfway around the world, that didn't travel on a truck and get stuck in traffic jams, that hasn't been sitting in a supermarket's refrigerator case for days.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • World
  • Travel
  • Better

• A smile is so sexy, yet so warm. When someone genuinely smiles at you, it's the greatest feeling in the world.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • World
  • Feeling
  • Smile

• We all, I think, believe in compassion. If you look at all the world religions, all the main world religions, you'll find within them some teaching concerning compassion.

  

  Jackie Tabick
  • World
  • Believe
  • Compassion

• Intolerance is a thing that causes war, pogroms, crucifixions, lynchings, and makes people cruel to little children and each other. It is responsible for most of the viciousness, violence, terror, and heart and soul breaking of the world.

  

  Betty Smith
  • People
  • World
  • Children

• Only play into a variation in which your opponent is strong if you have your own personal novelty ready!

  

  Edmar Mednis
  • Strong
  • Play
  • Chess

• Prostitution in the towns is like the cesspool in the palace; take away the cesspool and the palace will become an unclean and evil smelling-place.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Evil
  • Prostitution
  • Palace

• Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

  

  John Keats
  • Sweet

• Everyone wants to change, but no one wants to do anything differently.

  

  Eugene Burger
  • Change
  • Wants

• No bit of the natural world is more valuable or more vulnerable than the tree bit. Nothing is more like ourselves, standing upright, caught between heaven and earth, frail at the extremities, yet strong at the central trunk, and nothing is closer to us at the beginning and at the end, providing the timber boards that frame both the cradle and the coffin.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • World
  • Strong
  • Earth