#al

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire. ↗

— Edna O'Brien

#either #emotional #fathers #mothers #reserved

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul. ↗

— Edna O'Brien

#live #mind #really #soul #writers

The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at crossroads. ↗

— Flann O'Brien

#given #irish #jobs #majority #members

If somebody on this team actually gets to first base, I'll stand there naked. ↗

— Kate O'Brien

#base #first #gets #i #naked

It's filled with... baking soda. Because it really smells. ↗

— Kate O'Brien

#because #filled #really #smells #soda

Clearly, if it is sensible to hold a referendum on independence, it is crucial that we have one on marriage. It is the only way the country can move forward on this issue. Let all those who have a view on this subject place their trust in the Scottish people and let Scotland decide. ↗

— Keith O'Brien

#country #crucial #decide #forward #hold

Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#government #half #high #high school #making

I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#herd #i #i do #i love #individuals

I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work or recreation, but a simple indication that you value the role of Jesus Christ in the history of the world, that you are trying to live by Christ's standards in your own daily life. ↗

— Keith O'Brien

#christ #cross #daily #daily life #harm

If marriage can be redefined so that it no longer means a man and a woman but two men or two women, why stop there? Why not allow three men or a woman and two men to constitute a marriage? ↗

— Keith O'Brien

#constitute #longer #man #marriage #means