Cork Quote by Chris Abani Download Open image “My father was educated in Cork, in the University of Cork, in the '50s.” — Chris Abani ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cork Educated Father Parenting University
My grandfather John came from Cork. I have six degrees of separation in Ireland. — Duff McKagan Copy Share Image
My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad… — John Collison Copy Share Image
My father was from Belfast; my mother was from Crossmolina. I grew up in Dublin. — Colm Wilkinson Copy Share Image
Apparently, my grandfather left from Cork to America without saying goodbye to his mother! The family in Longford is still not happy about that. — Peggy Johnson Copy Share Image
I was born in Middletown, Connecticut, while my dad was getting his Ph.D. in ethnomusicology and anthropology at Wesleyan University. — Bozoma Saint John Copy Share Image
My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian. — David Johansen Copy Share Image
My father was a typical Irish father. He was a nice, hard working, driven guy. His politics were very conservative and I was just… — Ardal O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
After high school, I went to Stanford University and majored in English. Of course, that gave me a chance to do lots more reading… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
I've got my roots in Northern Ireland - my biological father's side of the family were from Belfast. — KT Tunstall Copy Share Image
When I was a senior in high school, I went to Ireland to study Irish Gaelic. And after one semester at Trinity College, I… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
I think it's an aggregation of all of the small acts that are really transformative. I think a group of small acts transform the… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
“He too, it seemed, had come to believe that he could somehow escape history. That it was possible, and even desirable, to live in… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five I read and wrote well enough to do… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
You know, you can steel your heart against any kind of trouble, any kind of horror. But the simple act of kindness from a… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Fiction is more dangerous than nonfiction because it can seduce better. I think we all know this, know that deeper truths can be approached… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
My grand uncle was a traditional priest, and he would always say to me as a kid, 'We stand in our own light,' which… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Unlike other books or TV shows or sometimes life, my narrative worlds are stripped of implicit moral centers. There is only what you bring.… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
Nigerians are everywhere. There's an old joke, particularly about the Ibos, that when you finally land on Mars, you're going to find a Nigerian… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
“Circuses are about entertainment and juggling and animals and all that shit. Sideshows are about freaks, about people and the limits of acceptability. We… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
“When I opened up the bottle of wine, Thebes said whoa, you yanked that cork out of there like you were saving it from… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
There was nobody in the city I came from - Cork, Ireland - that I could link up with to teach me the guitar. — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
I think the language as spoken in Limerick and Cork has not really been written; 'City of Bohane' is a combination of the two.… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
Marcel Proust shut out visitors from his cork-lined room, where he wrote, but he probably expected to be immortalized in the literary canon. Even… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I don't drink much anymore, because it's supposedly not good for me. I still have gallons of it around though. I smell the cork… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
