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Patrick Kavanagh Quotes

The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.

Patrick Kavanagh

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: irish
Birth: October 21, 1904 - November 30, 1967

Topics

Simple Soul Bad Manners Bad Manners

Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control. And it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realized that you either became a power or you were crushed.

Wisdom Age Power Control You Early

It was so surreal, having my parents hear the President and First Lady saying to me, 'Good to see you again! We're so proud of you. We watched you on the Grammys and were like, 'That's our girl!'

Good Girl Parents Me Saying Proud

So many amongst us live in the past rather than loving the present and building a brilliant future. Some people stay stuck for years over something they did or a failure they've experienced. Sad. A life is a terrible thing to waste.

Robin S. Sharma

Life Failure Future Live Sad Past

The American dream has now morphed into an expectation. And if it isn't provided, or if it doesn't happen, then people feel cheated.

American Dream People American Feel

The miniskirt caused an extraordinarily powerful reaction. There were the people who hated it.

People Powerful Reaction Who Hated

The simple fact is this: they are foreigners inside a country which has rejected them. Therefore, these foreigners wherever they go or travel they will be rained down with bullets from everyone. Attacks by members of the resistance will only go up.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Simple Travel Down Country Go Will

Michael was a rare breed. There's no question about that. He did things that a lot of players could never do, and still to this day players can't do those things, so the honors that he's had are definitely deserved.

Dominique Wilkins

Day Never Question Rare Things He

It is of no use to commit whole pages to memory, merely to recite them once without hesitation; you must think of the meaning more than the words - of the ideas more than the language.

Words Memory Ideas Think Language

String theory is not the only theory that can accommodate extra dimensions, but it certainly is the one that really demands and requires it.

Theory Extra Dimensions Only String

It's important for Americans to know what the guys fighting the wars have been experiencing, not just from the perspective of a talking-head politician or a four-star general.

Perspective Fighting Know Important

Internally, we have so many different parts, both positive and negative. And if you force them together, a spark comes out.

Positive Together Negative Spark You

My mother was a talker, but there are still so many things I want to ask her. She died when I was forty. But she did teach me to be a talker with my own children.

Mother Children Me Want My Own She

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