Anyone Quote by Seamus Heaney Download Open image “Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can't be too optimistic.” — Seamus Heaney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Anyone Born Bred Ireland Northern Northern ireland Optimistic Too
I've got a good connection here in England, my kids were born here, they're Northern Irish but born in England. — Stuart Dallas Copy Share Image
It's a complicated relationship with the place one grows up in, particularly if it's Northern Ireland. — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
I'm delighted that I was born in Ulster rather than anywhere else in Ireland and I've certainly not lost my identity. — Martin O'Neill Copy Share Image
I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987 — Paul Muldoon 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
I have always thought of myself as being Northern Irish because that's what I am. — Dick Strawbridge Copy Share Image
To be Irish today is the abandonment of shame and the younger people are moving it out and they're moving the fear away. They're… — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
I was born in Northern Ireland, also known as Ulster, and I'm Scots-Irish, therefore. — Jocelyn Bell Burnell Copy Share Image
My dad was Dublin born and bred - a Dublin boy - but he always pushed me to play for what was Wales Under-15s… — Chris Coleman Copy Share Image
To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
You had to come back to learn how to lose yourself, to be pilot and stray-witch, Hansel and Gretel in one. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
If self is a location, so is love: Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points, Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance, Here and there and now… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Once I was on the job, once I had got started, I felt safe enough, but the anticipation made me tense. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
The external reality and inner dynamic of happenings in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1974 were symptomatic of change, violent change admittedly, but change… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Hope for a great sea-change timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
One of the very first poems I wrote was Docker That fist would drop a hammer on a Catholic and one of the sturdiest… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Anything Can Happen is also, incidentally, a poem that arose from teaching. I'd talked about the Horace Ode (I, 34) [on which the poem… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
A lot of people have been saying 'The 100' reminds them of 'Lord Of The Flies,' 'Lost' and 'Battlestar Galactica,' and all of those… — Marie Avgeropoulos Copy Share Image
Anyone who's read my 'Terror in the Skies' series knows that I have not been writing with an eye toward approval from any government… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Becoming famous is a really shocking thing, especially when you don't have aspirations to it. It got to the point where I would try… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
I don't think I've met anyone with a stronger work ethic than Ray Charles. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
As a new mother, you're so vulnerable and make mistakes all the time. I guess there's more pressure when you're in the public eye,… — Jessica Marais Copy Share Image
I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography. — Stephen Adly Guirgis Copy Share Image
When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing,… — Barry Schwartz Copy Share Image
Don't compare your career to anyone else's. It's tough when you're in a business that's competitive. I was having a difficult time with that… — Danielle Brooks Copy Share Image
The Syrians are better suited to sort out their internal divisions than anyone else. — Richard Engel Copy Share Image
I haven't talked to any young artists for a long time. But if we did sit down, I'd definitely tell them my viewpoint. If… — Suzi Quatro Copy Share Image
![“One of the very first poems I wrote was Docker That fist would drop a hammer on a Catholic and one of the sturdiest was Requiem for the Croppies, written 50 years after 1916 [the year of the Easter Rising]. Being responsible and what it means, what it demands, have indeed preoccupied me maybe too…” quote by Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5fb/seamus-heaney-1711_being-responsible_one-of-the-very-first-poems-i-wrote-was_181491.jpg)
![“Anything Can Happen is also, incidentally, a poem that arose from teaching. I'd talked about the Horace Ode (I, 34) [on which the poem is based] in a lecture I gave at Harvard in the fall of 2000 entitled Bright Boltsand remembered it after the Twin Towers attack.” quote by Seamus Heaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2e6/seamus-heaney-1711_anything-can-happen_anything-can-happen-is-also-incidentally_181651.jpg)
