quotes about Gaelic

last updated: November 28, 2023

I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.
-- Carter Burwell

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There is an oath upon her," he said to Arch, and I realized dimly that he was still speaking in Gaelic, though I understood him clearly. "She may not kill, save it is for mercy or her life. It is myself who kills for her.
-- Diana Gabaldon

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My first language is Gaelic.
-- Enya

Source : Interview with Rachel Corcoran, www.saga.co.uk. November 2, 2015.

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Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung.
-- Enya

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Tears and laughter, they are so much Gaelic to me.
-- Samuel Beckett

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“Be loving and the love in your life will increase.”

Source : Rhonda Britten (2003). “Fearless Loving”, p.30, Penguin
“I didnâ€™t feel anything but a bone-deep weariness. Like I was suddenly a hundred years old, and I knew at that moment I would have to live a hundred more years, carrying my grief around like a backpack full of stones.”
“I love writing and the little filmmaking I have attempted, but comics is the means of artistic expression that feels most comfortable to me. It's also still a largely uncharted medium with enormous unrealized potential. I like finding new ways to communicate an idea or a feeling, ways that can't be duplicated in other media, so I take great pleasure in the invention and exploration that comics necessitates.”

Source : "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.
“In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.”

Source : Georges Duhamel (1918). “The New Book of Martyrs: From the French of Georges Duhamel”
“Evil into the mind of god or man may come and go, so unapproved, and leave no spot or blame behind.”
“Under a socialist system every nation will be the supreme arbiter of its own destinies, national and international; will be forced into no alliance against its will, but will have its independence guaranteed and its freedom respected by the enlightened self-interest of the socialist democracy of the world.”

Source : James Connolly, Peter Berresford-Ellis (1988). “James Connolly: Selected Writings”, p.34, Pluto Press
“Almost any movie, no matter how original, is borrowing from some other movies.”
“Resentments are like stray dogs,if you don't pet them, they will go away.”
“I have had the privilege of working with the best in the business, from photographers to designers to magazines. There's not much more to ask for but I'm still looking forward to one day working with photographers Mert and Marcus, Tim Walker and Nick Knight.”
“The cross of Christ is the all-sufficient ground for the salvation of sinners. It claims to be sturdy enough to support the whole weight of our guilt all by itself. Therefore, to boast in the cross properly at all is to boast in the cross alone.”