My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should…

“In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.”

— Amit Kalantri

“Some of us can live without a society but not without a family.”

— Amit Kalantri

To write and speak correctly is certainly necessary; but it is not sufficient. A derivation correctly presented in the book or on the blackboard…

— George Polya

“In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.”

— Amit Kalantri

A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you…

— Bill Viola

“You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.”

— Amit Kalantri

Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though…

— Rosemary Mahoney

“Why would she do that?" "Because she's a Yankee - a Maine Yankee, the worst kind. On a given day, they can make the…

— Stephen King

“A horn honks.I look up, expecting to see the white Audi. But there’s a sleek black four-door with shiny silver rims instead. e driver…

— K A Tucker

“...books, ingeniously coupled with music and alcohol, enabled the Irish to transcend reality.”

— Joe Queenan

“Do you know what Ireland is?' asked Stephen with cold violence. 'Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.”

— James Joyce

Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

“Ireland is probably named the “Emerald Isle” because there are lots of precious stones found there, such as sapphires and rubies.”

— Jarod Kintz

Irish research will contribute to global progress and have the potential to help all countries realise the potential of their land sectors in addressing…

— Enda Kenny

William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for 'The New Yorker' called Maeve Brennan,…

— Alice Munro