Pastoral Resources

In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.

I always loved my mother, felt loved, but she was judgmental. Her father in Ireland didn't approve of women generally, and she took on his values. She believed her own mother was foolish.

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. It's a cliche, but it's said that people who read my books don't read any other books, and you do get that element.

I think in England you eat too much sugar and meat and not enough vegetables.

After a couple years of occasional lessons with Pass I moved to Boston to attend the New England Conservatory.

I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.

We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.

I see by your letter to my father that you are rather afraid the French may invade England.

Scotland is the Canada of England!

When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my passions were as a young girl, and so I studied folklore as a college student in England and Ireland.

I've only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don't count my student years.

I divide my time between homes in Arizona and England, six months a year in each place.

Yeah, we went to England to do a show and I got off the plane and I couldn't write my name or hold my hand up.

I was born in London, and went to school in Scotland - I used to be dead tired when I got home at night.

Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the time and cause one another to change and have the opportunity to observe the changes over time.

I love to go to Ireland just to relax.

I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.