Edna O'Brien Quotes About Country

Quotes about: Country

• Irish? In truth I would not want to be anything else. It is a state of mind as well as an actual country. It is being at odds withother nationalities, having quite different philosophy about pleasure, about punishment, about life, and about death. At least it does not leave one pusillanimous.

  Edna O'Brien

  Country, Philosophy, Odds

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

  Edna O'Brien

  Mother, Country, Father

• ... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring.

  Edna O'Brien

  Country, Stars, Flower

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