quotes about Erin

“I shall be dumped where the weed decays, And the rest is rust and stardust”

“Please receive in the name of the Spanish government and the people of Spain our warmest congratulations for your election as Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church and my best wishes for the Papacy which you begin today. [to Pope Benedict XVI]”

“Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.”

“Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe”

Source : Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

“I tend to stay away from the comics.”

“Consciousness," according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way a garden slug secretes slime. It had no special ontological status. The "self" was a genetically modulated and biologically useful illusion.”

“My experiences are universal. I'm not doing anything embarrassing  - to me what would be embarrassing is to talk about minutia. It would be embarrassing to get up there and not say anything.”

“The Bible says that the earth is immovable. It cannot be moved. So now is your chance to prove your point. Run outside and move the earth. Perhaps you and your friends could jump on it, or find a rocky outcrop and push it together. Maybe after that little experiment you will concede that the earth is immovable.”

“As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.”

“I bet you’re really good with your hands, all that drawing and building.”

Source : Valerie Thomas, Stacy Kramer (2013). “From What I Remember”, p.144, Egmont UK