Seamus Heaney Quotes

The external reality and inner dynamic of happenings in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1974 were symptomatic of change, violent change admittedly, but change nevertheless, and for the minority living there, change had been long overdue.

Seamus Heaney

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• I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.

  

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• Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.

  

  Sam Mendes
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• Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

  

  Edmund Burke
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  • Learn
  • Example

• I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.

  

  Ian Rankin
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• To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
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• A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

  

  Lao Tzu
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• With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Up
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• I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.

  

  Natassia Malthe
  • Friends
  • Never
  • Class

• Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they're into, so I'm hoping that I will.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Time
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  • Programming

• I have always loved animals and groomed friends' horses as a child. I think I may have even ridden the odd seaside donkey in my early years.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • May
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  • Child

• Preach or proselytize for Christianity in much of the Islamic world, and you are a candidate for martyrdom. Practice freedom of speech in Xi Jinping's China, and you can wind up in a cell.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Up
  • World
  • Freedom

• In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Land
  • Away
  • Ants

• My dad dated a lot of supermodels.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Dad
  • Lot
  • Dated

• A lot of men do have a fear of my ultra-femininity. Sometimes people say I look like a drag queen, that I look scary, but I think that's a fear of my confidence. Most women in contemporary culture pare down their femininity, so there's a slight androgyny about them, and I think men have got used to seeing that.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
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  • Women

• I'm not a big lingerie girl. I see it, and I love it, and I appreciate it, and sometimes I even buy it, and then it never gets worn. It just seems like kind of a wasted middle step. Either you're dressed or you're not. What is this in-between stuff?

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Kind
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• What was interesting was talking to older gay men about what it was like being gay in the Eighties.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Men
  • Interesting
  • Gay

• I'm a kid who grew up working hard.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Up
  • Working
  • Kid

• Not taking risks one doesn't understand is often the best form of risk management.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Risk
  • Management

• It was here that I first saw the light of day; here I received my bride, here my dead lie pillowed on the loving breast of our eternal hills.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Light

• I have always loved Reese Witherspoon and Amy Adams as role models - I read all their interviews and agree with the fundamentals of how they manage the limelight and also how they look and carry themselves. A huge part of beauty is how you carry yourself and how you deal with certain situations.

  

  Brittany Snow

• All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians, we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches, so as to get a clear field of fire against new waves of assault.

  

  Paul von Hindenburg
  • Fighting
  • Fire
  • Enemy

• I know how to separate my own laundry.

  

  Amy Ryan

• Through long and bitter experience, Rajasinghe had learned never to trust first impressions, but also never to ignore them.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Long
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  • Trust

• The external reality and inner dynamic of happenings in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1974 were symptomatic of change, violent change admittedly, but change nevertheless, and for the minority living there, change had been long overdue.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Long
  • Reality
  • Violent