Ireland Quotes - Page 11

I saw a fleet of fishing boats...I flew down almost touching the craft and yelled at them, asking if I was on the right road to Ireland. They just stared. Maybe they didn't hear me. Maybe I didn't hear them. Or maybe they thought I was just a crazy fool.

Charles Lindbergh

Crazy, Fishing, Touching

N.Y. Times, 23 May 1927

8 Copy quote

Show source
'A Naval History of Britain' which begins in the 7th century has to explain what it means by Britain. My meaning is simply the British Isles as a whole, but not any particular nation or state or our own day... 'Britain' is not a perfect word for this purpose, but 'Britain and Ireland' would be both cumbersome and misleading, implying an equality of treatment which is not possible. Ireland and the Irish figure often in this book, but Irish naval history, in the sense of the history of Irish fleets, is largely a history of what might have been rather than what actually happened.

Nicholas Rodger

Book, Mean, Perfect

5 Copy quote
Your name is Sanchez, what are you doing playing for Northern Ireland?

Lawrie Sanchez

Soccer, Football, Names

4 Copy quote
I was walking across King's Cross station when a drunken Irishman came stumbling up and flung his arms around me. He wanted to thank me for the peace process in Northern Ireland.

Ann Widdecombe

Kings, Arms, Crosses

8 Copy quote
Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation.

Robert Peel

Said, Northern Ireland, Provocation

7 Copy quote
I've always liked it here. Part of me is Irish. My family comes from the west coast, so whenever I come to Ireland I get a wee tingling in my heart that I'm where I belong.

Billy Connolly

Heart, West Coast, My Family

4 Copy quote
I've been on 'Jay Leno,' and everyone likes Jay, but being on that show is a really boring afternoon. I sincerely like Jay, but I wouldn't want his job, because I'd have to interview Kathy Ireland, and there's nothing there I'd want to know.

Henry Rollins

Jobs, Afternoon, Want

"Tough-talker Henry Rollins Is Back, Keeping Things Israel". Interview with Anthony Layser, www.tvguide.com. April 13, 2007.

4 Copy quote

Show source
I'm especially grateful that they're here at a time when the rest of Ireland is focused on the final round of the Six Nations rugby tournament and the last match of the legendary Brian O'Driscoll.

Barack Obama

Grateful, Finals, Lasts

4 Copy quote
Roughly 1 in 6 Americans have Irish blood. I'd say it's probably safe to assume that the average Irish-American who only comes out on St. Patrick's Day has no idea of the sort of economic powerhouse Ireland has become.

Scott McClellan

Average, Blood, Ideas

4 Copy quote
Being Irish and a citizen of the world, has made me truly appreciate Irish culture, music and history. Whether you're first, second generation Irish or even with no connection to Ireland, you should visit in 2013 for a unique experience.

Liam Neeson

Unique, Appreciate, Firsts

4 Copy quote
Stop at home. Arm for Ireland. Fight for Ireland and no other land.

James Larkin

Home, Fighting, Hands

13 Copy quote
My mother was Irish and she was superstitious, if you'll forgive the tautology.

Rosalind Russell

Mother, Forgiving, Tautology

Rosalind Russell, Chris Chase (1979). “Life is a Banquet”

15 Copy quote

Show source
When I read or hear of the mutual injuries of England and Ireland, I fancy it would have been a blessed thing had the sea never flowed between the two countries. Had they been all in one, surely there would have been more unity between them of interests and of feelings. But let us hope that days of peace and general enlightenment will arrive by ways past man's finding out.

Sara Coleridge

Country, Blessed, Past

Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.139

5 Copy quote

Show source
A typical Irish dinner would be: cream flavored with lobster, cream with bits of veal in it, green peas and cream, cream cheese, cream flavored with strawberries.

Nancy Mitford

Typical, Lobster, Would Be

24 Copy quote
Ireland is not at all a simple place, and in many ways it is spare and sad. It has no wealth, no power, no stability, no influence, no fashion, no size. Its only real arts are song and drama and poem. But Limerick alone has two thousand ruined castles and surely that many practicing poets.

Shana Alexander

Fashion, Song, Art

Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

4 Copy quote

Show source
Dublin ... is not only the capital of a nation, but the capital of an idea. The idea of Irishness is not universally beloved. Some people mock it, some hate it, some fear it. On the whole, though, I think it fair to say, the world interprets it chiefly as a particular kind of happiness, a happiness sometimes boozy and violent, but essentially innocent: and this ineradicable spirit of merriment informs the Dublin genius to this day.

Jan Morris

Hate, Thinking, Ideas

Jan Morris (1976). “Travels”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

14 Copy quote

Show source
No people can more exactly interpret the inmost meaning of the present situation in Ireland than the American Negro. The scheme is simple. You knock a man down and then have him arrested for assault. You kill a man and then hang the corpse.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Men, Simple, People

5 Copy quote
The Irish aren't great singers, but they have great songs.

Bernadette Devlin

Song, Singers

7 Copy quote
The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland.

James Larkin

Determination, Class, Goal

9 Copy quote
I'm such a bookworm, and I'm such a people-watcher. It took the Internet a while to catch on in Ireland, because the culture there is, you go to the pub and talk to people there, and that's how you get the news and all the gossip. You just do it face to face. And culturally, you just couldn't understand.

Patton Oswalt

People, Gossip, Faces

Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. August 26, 2009.

7 Copy quote

Show source
In Ireland every place you visit and every person you meet has a story. And they love to tell you their stories. Everyone is interested in everything; in a land of storytellers, you will never be bored.

Maeve Binchy

Land, Bored, Stories

11 Copy quote
In the vast majority of cases the secret society symbolism hearkens from two places - Ireland and Egypt.

Michael Tsarion

Egypt, Two, Symbolism

8 Copy quote
The secret of my success is my mother, who was from Dublin. All my relations are in Dublin or in the west, or as I found out, we went to Rostrevor in Northern Ireland to film and I got out, while they changed cars around, and this man said to me: "You know you have cousins in this town? And they're coming down to see you..." And so they did. I'm sorry we didn't go to a lot more places, so that I could find a lot more cousins. So, that was good. It's entirely because my father was also brought up in Dublin. So, that's my link.

Judi Dench

Mother, Cousin, Sorry

"Philomena - Dame Judi Dench interview". www.indielondon.co.uk.

9 Copy quote

Show source
My three-thousand mile walk through Ireland convinced me of one thing - the possibility of organising a proper movement for the independence of my native land.

James Stephens

Land, Independence, Three

4 Copy quote
Each poet probably has his or her own cupboard of magnets. For some, it is cars; for others, works of art, or certain patterns of form or sound; for others, certain stories or places, Philip Levine's Detroit, Gwendolyn Brooks's Chicago, Seamus Heaney's time-tunneled, familied Ireland.

Jane Hirshfield

Art, Car, Sound

"Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

6 Copy quote

Show source

You May Also Like Quotes On:

Ireland