Irish Permanent

Famous quotes containing the words irish and/or permanent:

“Irish Americans are about as Irish as black Americans are African.”
—Bob Geldof (b. 1954)

“When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality. This is always exhilarating and sublime.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)