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John McGahern Quotes

I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: irish
Birth: November 12, 1934 - March 30, 2006

Topics

Love Poor Gothic Word Churches Were

For most of our young lives, my family was baffled by elementary school bake sales, to which we were told to bring in goodies to sell. While other kids arrived bearing brownies, chocolate chip cookies, and apple pies, Chinese families didn't bake.

Family School Chocolate Apple Young

There's no such thing as the 'Irish Internet.' It's just the Internet.

Internet Irish Just Thing

Every time I have a hit, I buy a Rolls.

Time Buy Hit Rolls Every Every Time

Friendships that don't fit my life anymore have faded away, and new ones have come in.

Amanda Lindhout

Life My Life New Away Come Fit

Music, from the time I was probably about five years old, was my obsession. I was going to say 'passion,' but I really was obsessed; I really didn't want to do anything else.

Trisha Yearwood

Music Passion Time Say Want Old

I love my mother. My mother made sure, her stubbornness - she made sure we was going to eat. She made sure we had Christmases. That was my mother. My father wasn't there for that.

Love Father Mother She Eat Going

One of the characteristics of plays that are made into films is that they can be very talky.

Characteristics Made Very Plays

I've met girls in college that say to me, 'Is it bad that I'm 25 and I'm in love with Ross Lynch?'

Love College Me Bad Say Met

I went to Cork, Ireland, and stood on the dock some of my ancestors had left from. I felt their ghosts gather round me, and I cried to imagine what it must have felt like - leaving that beautiful land and those beloved people, knowing it was forever.

Beautiful People Me Leaving Land

I am not a creationist as the term is usually understood. I believe that the earth is billions of years old and the universe even older. I do believe that God is the creator, but that's a completely different thing. I've written in defense of evolution and made arguments that are based on evolution.

God I Am Believe Universe Earth Old

I think Labrinth is an amazing writer and an amazing singer. His voice is just so magnetic. There are so many people that I would work with inside and outside of pop.

Work People Amazing Voice Think Pop

I think I'm constantly resorting to making sure to keep God's perspective in my mind.

Deborah Joy Winans

God Perspective Mind Think Sure

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