Irish history having been forbidden in schools, has been, to a great extent, learned from Raftery's poems by the people of Mayo, where he was born, and of Galway, where he spent his later years.

There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.

It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man.

We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.

The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.

Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.

It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.

She is a girl would not be afraid to walk the whole world with herself.

As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.

It takes madness to find out madness.

I said, in talking, that I felt more and more the time wasted that was not spent in Ireland.

And Meredith and Bonnie, who's going to bend some spoons for us next. I'm going to throw you down a rope… that is, unless Bonnie can levitate you out.

Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh after careful thought. Piglet was comforted by this.

Black audiences are hard. They always think they're better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.

If you tell a true story, you can't be wrong.

I had Micah Richards as a player at 16 and he was a man then. What is he now? A bigger man, probably

In an environment in which tragedy is genuine and frequent, laughter is essential to sanity.

I felt the kind of loneliness that can happen in a roomful of people when everyone but you seems to be in on the good time.

Therefore, give to the poor. I beg you, I admonish you, I charge you, I command you to give.

[Kino] worked really well as a song title, and to build into a lyric, and also how we embraced mulit-media at the time.

I love weekends. Just like everyone else, I get to rest on weekends and go out with friends. I hate Mondays.