Background Quote by Seamus Heaney Download Open image “I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.” — Seamus Heaney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Background Came Career Education Farming I came Teaching
My mother's family raised grains and crops. My father's grew sugarcane and mangos. So I knew more about the basics of farming than of… — Margot Robbie Copy Share Image
I was studying sculpture and painting and was working on a degree so I could become a teacher. I really liked teaching, and it… — Kurt Wagner Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a landscape architect, but I trained as a teacher; I worked in publishing; I was a waitress. — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
I think the initial reason why I became interested in farming is that I wanted to be outdoors. I've always enjoyed being outdoors. And… — Ian Wilmut Copy Share Image
When they asked us what we wanted to be when we grow up, in kindergarten, I always said I wanted to be a farmer. — Rose Namajunas Copy Share Image
I could teach. I could wait tables. I could cook in a restaurant. Food and teaching were the two skills I had. — Ann Patchett 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 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 much. But this is it,… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share
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
When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background. — Jenna Morasca Copy Share Image
When I was playing piano, it was like, 'I'm going to write a song using all the white keys.' My music director, who knew… — John Tesh Copy Share Image
Food as a hobby used to be an elite pastime, and it has become something that is totally ordinary for people of every background.… — Dana Goodyear Copy Share Image
The way I look at it is, cancer research is absolutely nonpartisan. Cancer is very democratic in the sense that it attacks people regardless… — David H. Koch Copy Share Image
My first album, 'Get Lifted,' was a hip-hop soul album that had some of its roots in the church, as far as the sonic… — John Legend Copy Share Image
Mark Zuckerberg is a rich white dude from a really privileged background. — Peter Sunde Copy Share Image
Once you know the background of an individual, you can connect better with his or her music. — Badshah Copy Share Image
Al Jazeera is a representation of, you know, diversity in the Arab world. In our newsroom, we have every single nationality, we have every… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image
Maybe it's just my improv and sketch background, but I'm a lot more comfortable in a group. I like sharing focus and populating an… — Jason Mantzoukas 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 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)
