Irish Quote by P. L. Travers Download Open image “I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.” — P. L. Travers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Irish My own Own Up Where World
My dad's Irish, so I was visiting Ireland a lot as a kid, so it's not totally foreign to me. — Katherine Ryan Copy Share Image
I was brought up in the same house I was born in, and I lived there until I left home as an adult. I… — Lisa Jewell 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
When I was a kid, I would sometimes go to Ireland with our family. — Matthew Broderick Copy Share Image
I was gonna move to Ireland for a while. All my family lives out there. — Angus Cloud Copy Share Image
I'm from an Irish family and, even though I grew up in 80s London, I spent a lot of my childhood in southwest Ireland. — Roisin Conaty Copy Share Image
Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me. — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
What I want to know is this: Are the stars gold paper or is the gold paper stars? — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
I don't think that children, if left to themselves, feel that there is an author behind a book, a somebody who wrote it. Grown-ups… — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
More and more I’ve become convinced that the great treasure to possess is the unknown. — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life. — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend. — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be… — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases,… — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you are going… — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns. — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
With the word creative we stand under a mystery. And from time to time that mystery, as if it were a sun, sends down… — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Ireland is probably named the “Emerald Isle” because there are lots of precious stones found there, such as sapphires and rubies.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Do you know what Ireland is?' asked Stephen with cold violence. 'Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.” — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“...books, ingeniously coupled with music and alcohol, enabled the Irish to transcend reality.” — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Thankfully the rest of the world assumed that the Irish were crazy, a theory that the Irish themselves did nothing to debunk. They had… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul. — John Oates Copy Share Image
I'm Irish and always will be, but America has taught me so much. Maybe it's here in the U.S. that we find a healing,… — Fionnula Flanagan Copy Share Image
