I'm Irish as hell: Kelly on one side, Shanley on the other. My father had been born on a farm in the Irish Midlands. He and his brothers had been shepherds there, cattle and sheep, back in the early 1920s. I grew up surrounded by brogues and Irish mu...
I am a child of the poisonous wind that copulated with the East River on an oil-slick, garbage infested midnight. I turn about on my own parentage. I inoculate against those very biles that brought me to light. I am a serum born of venoms. I am the a...
Can I dwell on what I scarce remember? I held a castle on the Marches once, and there was a woman I was pledged to marry, but I could not find that castle today, nor tell you the color of that woman's hair. Who knighted me, old friend? What were my f...
Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm alive? Because I have a stomach and eat and digest the food? Because I breathe and work and produce m...
The lucky ones are just born dead.
Beauty was a curse to be borne, not a blessing.
The gossip will kill your Great Grandmother.
Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone.
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
Some men are born posthumously.
We are all born artists... Almost everything kids do is art.
To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!
Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
When the Savior Himself was born, there were troubled times.
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
'Giving 2.0' was born of my desire to redefine and democratize philanthropy.
If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.
I've been ready to die since before you was Born!
Gay people are born everyday. You will never legislate that away.
And it is in dying of laughter (Happyness) that we are born to eternal life
