Seamus Heaney Quotes

I felt implicated in American affairs.Outraged at the blatant lies about Iraqs involvement in al Qaeda, at the regimes arrogance and stupidity, Guantnamo Bay and all the rest of it. But the poems at the start of District and Circle Anahorish 1944, The Aerodromearent particularly aimed as criticism. On the contrary, there's a recognition of the big contribution to world order made in Europe during World War II.

Seamus Heaney

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My second-grade teacher went around the class and asked everybody what they were going to be when they grew up. I said, 'I want to travel the world,' and he said, 'You'll be married and pregnant by 21, just like all the girls in this room.'

Brown Campbell
- Up
- World
- Travel
Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.

Larry Kramer
- World
- Man
- Me
I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.

Xavier Becerra
- World
- Important
- Country
It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.

Barack Obama
- World
- Today
- Education
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

Oscar Wilde
- World
- Trouble
- Sympathy
It's scary to become a woman in this world. We have to understand that some of the messages we get, messages that we are not enough, are there to keep our power in check. We can't buy into these messages.

Francesca Lia Block
- World
- Power
- Woman