#al

The necessary transformation of which I speak and of which my presidency will be a part is built on turning creative possibilities into live realities for all our people. ↗

— Michael D. Higgins

#creative #i #into #live #necessary

I want to say a very sincere thank you for this welcome home - it is a wonderful welcome home. It is the place to where I return and where I will always return because it is of Galway that I am. ↗

— Michael D. Higgins

#am #because #home #i #i am

I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#country #dubbed #i #into #italian

In black Africa, one does not strike, one does not express, one walks right. ↗

— Yannick Noah

#black #does #express #right #strike

Making an Irishness to be proud of in a real Republic. It is the vision of a real Republic where life and language, where ideals and experience have the ring of authenticity which we need now as we go forward. ↗

— Michael D. Higgins

#experience #forward #go #ideals #language

The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years had its four pillars - an inclusive citizenship, equality and participation and respect in a creative society creating an excellence in everything we Irish do. ↗

— Michael D. Higgins

#creating #creative #equality #everything #excellence

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor. ↗

— Thomas W. Higginson

#adverse #against #defense #effectual #fortune

The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds. ↗

— Thomas W. Higginson

#corner #current #found #his #merely

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. ↗

— Gilbert Highet

#books #lifeless #lumps #minds #paper

I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#boring #find #i #justice #passion