Eavan Boland Quotes

If a poet does not tell the truth about time, his or her work will not survive it. Past or present, there is a human dimension to time, human voices within it, and human griefs ordained by it.

Eavan Boland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: September 24, 1944

Topics

WorkTruthTimePastSurviveWill

I realized during my time as a chaplain that I didn't want to be a minister.

John Green

TimeWantMy TimeRealizedMinister

We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back.

Melina Mercouri

GovernmentThank YouNameYouBack

Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal.

Jeff Miller

AttentionSeePaidCriminalFarToo

I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one hundred boys from single-parent homes. I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.

Steve Harvey

FatherMotherTeacherTogetherMe

There are two types of paparazzi. The ones who hide who get you with your mouth hanging wide open or jumping up and down like an idiot on the street. I much prefer them to the ones who come out and follow you.

Dianna Agron

IdiotYouMouthHideDownStreet

The enemy is the system. And the system is made up of people, and we have a choice in that.

Dee Rees

PeopleChoiceEnemyUpSystemMade

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

Confucius

YourselfThinkYouOfficeWorthy

If you watch any good player, they're using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They're moving in many dimensions at once.

Brian Eno

GoodMovingYouBodyRespondWatch

What's disheartening for me and to all of us in GLAAD is when it comes to major studio films, LGBT people are basically invisible. And when we do show up, it's largely a part of comedies as carictatures to service a joke that's at the expense of the character.

Wilson Cruz

CharacterServicePeopleMeJokeUp

I definitely won't play the bad German, the Nazi German, here in Hollywood or wherever.

Sebastian Koch

GoodBestWaitCountryHollywood

Faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time, for one will dispel the other.

Thomas S. Monson

FaithTimeMindDoubtWillSame

I like Spike Lee a lot. He's incredibly gifted and I don't think he gets the credit he deserves as a filmmaker.

Tim Robbins

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