Famous quotes containing the words irish, free and/or state:
“I hope you will not be washed away by the Irish sea.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.”
—Frances Burney (17521840)
“... writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (18991973)
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