Irish Permanent Building

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

    “Concurring hands divide

    flax for damask
    that when bleached by Irish weather
    has the silvered chamois-leather
    water-tightness of a
    skin.”
    —Marianne Moore (1887–1972)

    “There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.”
    —James A. Garfield (1831–1881)

    “The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics and trade, inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days already seem numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives, judges and officers across such tedious distances of land and water.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)