Irish Permanent Building

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

    “Hindered characters
    seldom have mothers
    in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.”
    —Marianne Moore (1887–1972)

    “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)

    “Notice how he has numbered the blue veins
    in my breast. Moreover there are ten freckles.
    Now he goes left. Now he goes right.
    He is building a city, a city of flesh.
    He’s an industrialist.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)