Irish Linen Fabric

Famous quotes containing the words irish, linen and/or fabric:

    “But Irish had an old soul, you might say. He was a man with a great future behind him, already.”
    —Angela Carter (1940–1992)

    “It is not linen you’re wearing out
    But human creatures’ lives!
    Stitch—stitch—stitch,
    In poverty, hunger, and dirt,
    Sewing at once, with a double thread,
    A Shroud as well as a Shirt.”
    —Thomas Hood (1799–1845)

    “The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences.... It is a pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention. But I have found no substantial reasons for concluding that there are any quite black threads in it, or any white ones.”
    —Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)