Ireland/culture/sport

Famous quotes containing the words ireland, culture and/or sport:

    “Out of Ireland have we come,
    Great hatred, little room
    Maimed us at the start.
    I carry from my mother’s womb
    A fanatic’s heart.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The best hopes of any community rest upon that class of its gifted young men who are not encumbered with large possessions.... I now speak of extensive scholarship and ripe culture in science and art.... It is not large possessions, it is large expectations, or rather large hopes, that stimulate the ambition of the young.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

    “What sport shall we devise here in this garden
    To drive away the heavy thought of care?”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)