Irish Permanent Building

Famous quotes containing the words irish, permanent and/or building:

“The Irish are a fair people; they never speak well of one another.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“It takes place ... always without permanent form, though ancient and familiar as the sun and moon, and as sure to come again.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“... what’s been building since the 1980’s is a new kind of social Darwinism that blames poverty and crime and the crisis of our youth on a breakdown of the family. That’s what will last after this flurry on family values.”
—Stephanie Coontz (b. 1944)