Mary McAleese's Quotes
Born: 1951-06-27
Profession: Statesman
Nation: Irish
Biography of Mary McAleese
People with disabilities have abilities too and that is what this course is all about - making sure those abilities blossom and shine so that all the dreams you have can come true.
Tags: Dreams, Making, TrueThat past is still within our living memory, a time when neighbour helped neighbour, sharing what little they had out of necessity, as well as decency.
Tags: Living, Past, TimeThe last thing I would want to do is to create the impression that sectarianism came from only one side of the community.
Tags: Community, Create, LastWe are a vibrant first-world country, but we have a humbling third-world memory.
Tags: Country, Humbling, MemoryIt is absolutely no accident that the peace and reconciliation, and indeed the economic progress, that eluded us generation after generation for hundreds of years, has at last come to pass in an Ireland where the talents of women are now flooding every aspect of life as never before.
Tags: Life, Peace, WomenThe extent to which all people in our society are made to count, and believe that they count, is not just a measure of decency; it makes sound economic sense.
Tags: Makes, Sense, SocietyWhatever changes the new era brings, whatever new pathways we take, I am sure that our special relationship with America - forged in adversity, will not change.
Tags: America, Change, SpecialA dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.
Tags: Die, Once, PlaceA man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
Tags: Happy, Rich, ThoughEach day is a step we make towards eternity and we shall continue thus to step from day to day until we take the last step, which will bring us into the presence of God.
Tags: God, Last, UntilOh may He look on us with love and pity and then we shall be able to do anything He wishes us to do, no matter how difficult to accomplish or painful to our feeling.
Tags: Feeling, Love, MayIf we don't take Tullamore, no other community will.
Tags: CommunityThis is the spirit of the Order, indeed the true spirit of Mercy flowing on us.
Tags: Order, Spirit, TrueThere has been a most Providential Guidance which the want of prudence, vigilance, or judgement has not impeded, and it is here that we can most clearly see the designs of God.
Tags: God, Here, JudgementWe have now gone beyond 100 in number, and the desire to join seems rather to increase, though it was thought the foundations would retard it, it seems quite otherwise.
Tags: Desire, Rather, Thought