Becoming Quote by Thomas Cahill

“The phrase "the violent bear it away" fascinated the 20th century Irish-American storyteller Flannery O'Connor, who used it as the title of one of…

— Thomas Cahill

Wherever they went the Irish brought with them their books, many unseen in Europe for centuries and tied to their waists as signs of…

— Thomas Cahill

How real is history? Is it just an enormous soup so full of disparate ingredients that it is uncharacterizable?

— Thomas Cahill

The Irish innovation was to make all confession a completely private affair between penitent and priest - and to make it as repeatable as…

— Thomas Cahill

“They understood, as few have understood before or since, how fleeting life is and how pointless to try to hold on to things or…

— Thomas Cahill

“We followed the rump of a misguiding woman. It is the usual thing for a herd led by a mare to be strayed and…

— Thomas Cahill

“Cujus regio, ejus religio (Whose region it is, his is the religion).”

— Thomas Cahill

We can hardly get up in the morning or cross the street without being Jewish. We dream Jewish dreams and hope Jewish hopes. Most…

— Thomas Cahill

“I see a sweet country. I could rest my weapon there.”

— Thomas Cahill

(The festival) was awfully impersonal and abstract and there was something really gloomy about it, ... That's when I first started thinking about the…

— Thomas Cahill

“We will never make it under our own stem. Having made this connection, Augustine falls apart. What he describes at this point in the…

— Thomas Cahill

The Jews started it all-and by 'it' I mean so many of the things we care about, the underlying values that make all of…

— Thomas Cahill