Shadow of a Century Quotes

“you only get one mother, and no matter what the relationship between you, you’ll miss her when she’s gone. You never really get over it, actually.’ Her”
― Jean Grainger, Shadow of a Century

“Life’s too short to have resentment or regret. It only hurts the person feeling it, not the person it’s directed at.”
― Jean Grainger, Shadow of a Century

“mothers are just human beings as well, fallible human beings who make mistakes.”
― Jean Grainger, Shadow of a Century

“to defeat any enemy, one must first understand them – think like them, so you can beat them on their own terms. When you get inside their head, then you find their weak spot, their Achilles’ heel, then you stand a chance of victory. Even if the enemy is significantly stronger and better resourced than you.”
― Jean Grainger, Shadow of a Century

“Ideally, yes, but if you are dealing with those who see exploitation and injustice as acceptable, then trying to reason with them is a waste of time.”
― Jean Grainger, Shadow of a Century

“The powerful will never volunteer to relinquish power – it must be taken forcibly from them. It’s the only way.”
― Jean Grainger, Shadow of a Century

“I was brought up to believe in equality – that work should be rewarded and profits shared. That women and men are equal, and that rather than being in competition with each other, the most effective way to make social progress is through cooperation. Not”
― Jean Grainger, Shadow of a Century

“You only get one mother, and no matter what the relationship between you, you’ll miss her when she’s gone. You never really get over it, actually.’ Her blue eyes gleamed with emotion.”
― Jean Grainger, Shadow of a Century

“They think we don’t know who they are, and what they’re up to, but we do. And we will strike when we see fit. A bunch of Leninist writers for rag newspapers and schoolteachers think they”
― Jean Grainger, Shadow of a Century

“This political claptrap about freeing Ireland from the ‘yoke of British Imperialism,’ I think these upstarts call it. What’s your opinion on that?”
― Jean Grainger, Shadow of a Century

“earlier joviality had disappeared. ‘The locked-out workers are trying to send their children to England, to be looked after by sympathetic families over there, but the Church is against them going to Protestant homes. They’d rather they starve to death as Catholics.”
― Jean Grainger, Shadow of a Century

“Then again, one man’s patriot is another man’s terrorist, isn’t that what they say?”
― Jean Grainger, Shadow of a Century

“time”
― Jean Grainger, Shadow of a Century

“Life’s too short to have resentment or regret.”
― Jean Grainger, Shadow of a Century

“Chivalry is all very well and fine, sir, when it comes to carriage doors and matters of little consequence, but it has no place in securing a nation’s freedom.”
― Jean Grainger, Shadow of a Century

“... but the thing about hearts, I've come to discover, is that, just like ankles and noses, they heal, even if you don't want them to or think they never will, they do. And someday you wake up and the pain is gone.”
― Jean Grainger, Shadow of a Century

“In the end no one wins, isn’t that the truth. No one at all...’ he”
― Jean Grainger, Shadow of a Century

“For all that is done and said. We know their dream; enough To know they dreamed and are dead; What if excess of love Bewildered them till they died? I write it out in a verse – MacDonagh and MacBride And Connolly and Pearse Now and in time to be, Wherever green is worn, Are changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born. Easter 1916 William Butler Yeats.”
― Jean Grainger, Shadow of a Century