Famous quotes containing the words michael, collins, irish and/or leader:
“Lump the whole thing! Say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo!”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“The sun shines bright in the old Kentucky home;
Tis summer, the darkeys are gay;
The corn-tops ripe, and the meadows in the bloom,”
—Stephen Collins Foster (18261884)
“I was the rectors son, born to the anglican order,
Banned for ever from the candles of the Irish poor;
The Chichesters knelt in marble at the end of a transept
With ruffs about their necks, their portion sure.”
—Louis MacNeice (19071963)
“Just as every conviction begins as a whim so does every emancipator serve his apprenticeship as a crank. A fanatic is a great leader who is just entering the room.”
—Heywood Broun (18881939)