Where did I get the nerve to think I could handle American teenagers? Ignorance. That's where I got the nerve.

I am for who i was in the beginning but now is present and i exist in the future.

Before the famine, which was in the 1840s, that was an emotional turning point... There are various documents showing how the Elizabethan English, in particular, were shocked by Irish displays of affection, by the way women acted toward strangers, walking up and putting their arms around them and kissing them right full on the mouth.

There’s no use saying anything in the schoolyard because there’s always someone with an answer and there’s nothing you can do but punch them in the nose and if you were to punch everyone who has an answer you’d be punching morning noon and night.

There's nothing sillier in the world than a teacher telling you don't do it after you already did it.

Bless me, Father, for I have sinned, it's been a minute since my last confession.

Love her as in childhood Through feeble, old and grey. For you’ll never miss a mother’s love Till she’s buried beneath the clay.