Seamus Heaney Quotes

One of the very first poems I wrote was Docker That fist would drop a hammer on a Catholic and one of the sturdiest was Requiem for the Croppies, written 50 years after 1916 the year of the Easter Rising. Being responsible and what it means, what it demands, have indeed preoccupied me maybe too much. But this is it, this is the thing, this is what you're up against.

Seamus Heaney

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• I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Where
  • Still
  • Charge

• The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • World
  • Control
  • Eyes

• We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • People
  • Good
  • God

• My parents were no ordinary people. My mother turned Gandhian, and my father was a staunch communist. They named me after the great saint as a symbol of communal harmony.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • People
  • Great
  • Mother

• The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • School
  • Society
  • Very

• I usually prepare a track, and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals.

  

  Babyface
  • Time
  • Work
  • Artist

• How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Up
  • Time
  • Movie

• I've been involved with blood donation since the 1980s because there is a critical need.

  

  Donna Reed

• Charles Wyly was born Oct 13, 1933, in Lake Providence, La., and for a period lived with his family in a shack without electricity or plumbing.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • Family
  • Period
  • Lake

• I travel all over the country, all over the world, and I'm happy to call Texas home.

  

  Jimmy Walker
  • World
  • Country
  • Home

• I know that one's visibility is very high on television, even with an unsuccessful show! With a successful role, it's even higher.

  

  James Spader
  • High

• Fifty years ago, it was the dream of every bohemian artist to be seen getting out of a limousine wearing blue jeans and sneakers. Today, it's the dream of probably half the people in the country.

  

  Brad Holland
  • People
  • Country
  • Today

• Anything that changes your values changes your behavior.

  

  George A. Sheehan

• Because normally with Western cuisine, you'll serve vegetables separate from the meat, so kids will eat the meat and never touch the vegetables.

  

  Martin Yan
  • Kids

• Remember that stress doesn't come from what's going on in your life. It comes from your thoughts about what's going on in your life.

  

  Andrew Bernstein
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Thoughts

• People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • People
  • High
  • Challenges

• You saw Britain back in the early days of sailing ships. They were the sea power, the controlled the seas and they had colonies all over the world and then you can look at history and watch the way that their empire kind of crumbled. I certainly don't want that to happen to the United States in space technology.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • World
  • Power
  • History

• I went to an all-boys Catholic school, and not only were we not allowed to wear pajamas, we had to wear dress shirts, dress pants, a tie, dress shoes... they stopped making us wear blazers, like, two years before I started there, so pajamas... you wouldn't even get in the front door wearing pajamas at my school.

  

  John C. Reilly
  • School
  • Door
  • Shoes

• The English talked with inflected phrases. One phrase to mean everything.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Mean
  • Phrases

• I want to do a romantic comedy. Like a 'When Harry Met Sally' romantic comedy... A really sweet, show-my-vulnerability kind of role.

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Want
  • Comedy
  • Sweet

• You have to set big goals for yourself. And you have to put aside all the negativity in your life that tells you that if you came from a certain education or a certain family background that you can't achieve big goals. That's one of the things that America has.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Family
  • America

• If something is nice about you, usually one or two people will tell you. If something is foul about you, everyone will tell you.

  

  Adam Richman
  • People
  • Nice
  • Two

• One of the very first poems I wrote was Docker That fist would drop a hammer on a Catholic and one of the sturdiest was Requiem for the Croppies, written 50 years after 1916 the year of the Easter Rising. Being responsible and what it means, what it demands, have indeed preoccupied me maybe too much. But this is it, this is the thing, this is what you're up against.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Mean
  • Catholic
  • Responsible