Ireland Quotes - Page 17

• Oh, all kinds of lunacy happens in Ireland, all kinds of lunacy.

  Anjelica Huston

  Kind, Happens, Lunacy

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• More people died as a result of the tiny abortive Easter Uprising against British rule in Ireland (1916) than died as a result of political violence in Germany during the entire National Socialist revolution.

  Adolf Hitler

  Easter, Uprising, People

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• My husband was in the war of the Crimea. It is terrible the hardships he went through‚ to be two months without going into a house‚ under the snow in trenches. And no food to get‚ maybe a biscuit in the day. And there was enough food there‚ he said‚ to feed all Ireland; but bad management‚ they could not get it.

  Lady Gregory

  Husband, War, Two

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.524, eBookIt.com

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• 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.

  Julie Walters

  Mother, Father, Women

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• My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.

  Olivia Wilde

  Dad, America, Childhood

  "Olivia Wilde Takes Center Stage". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 20, 2013.

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• I feel like the luckiest child in the world because I got to grow up in Ireland. In summer is when you really grow up. During the year, I would go back to the States, and all year long really couldn't wait to get back to Ardmore.

  Olivia Wilde

  Summer, Children, Growing Up

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I grew up in Ireland in the seventies there was no such thing as therapy...I mean we didn't even have cappuccinos until 1998! So for me music was therapy, it was also the place where one could speak about himself, where he was allowed to speak about his traumatic experiences.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Mean, Speak, Grew Up

  Source: www.stateofmind.it

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• When I sang the line, 'Songs about Old Ireland.Songs about being young again.I wish I was young again,' twice people cried. I saw them.

  Aoife O'Donovan

  Song, People, Wish

  "The Enchanting Solo Flight of Singer Aoife O’Donovan". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. March 19, 2016.

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• My relationship to all my family in Ireland is more to family as a whole. It wasn't that we had a very specific one-on-one relationship.

  Aoife O'Donovan

  My Family, Whole, One On One

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

  William Butler Yeats

  Book, Men, Thinking

  New Poems (1938) "The Municipal Gallery Re-visited"

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• What we do every St. Patty's day, which is wear green and drink a lot of Guinness. And maybe cry a little bit and laugh, and everyone will have to sing a song. That's how every funeral, christening, and wedding ends up in Ireland. Everyone ends up having to sing a song by the end of it.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Song, Laughing, Funeral

  "The legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Saoirse Ronan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• The 1916 uprising was kind of the most important rebellion in Ireland's fight for independence that had been going on for 700 years. So it's a very important moment in history for us.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Fighting, Years, Uprising

  "The legend: Jodie Foster". Interview with Saoirse Ronan, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 23, 2016.

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• I pray. I try to find space to process with a walk on the beach, a hike in the hills. Nature is restorative. I also try not to overreact. I grew up in Ireland, and we are big tea drinkers, and I think it's less about the tea itself and more about the ritual and the moment to prepare.

  Roma Downey

  Beach, Thinking, Space

  "Actor Roma Downey: Being inspired by kindness and the centering ritual of tea". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I have had people come to the site from all over the world. The US and Canada predominantly, but also Brazil and South Africa and Greece and Indonesia and Hong Kong and Ireland and Argentina and Spain and Israel and Australia.

  Sophie Blackall

  Israel, Australia, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Famines occur under a colonial administration, like the British Raj in India or for that matter in Ireland, or under military dictators in one country after another, like Somalia and Ethiopia, or in one-party states like the Soviet Union and China.

  Amartya Sen

  Country, Military, Party

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• The British leadership has acknowledged that it only became possible to end the violence in North Ireland when it stopped thinking of the [Irish Republican Army] as "a terrorist organization" and began treating it as a political actor with genuine grievances that deserved to be addressed.

  Richard A. Falk

  Army, Thinking, Organization

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• This is the great thing about Northern Ireland. I walk down the street and people stop me and say things like, 'I know you. You're that wee golfer, aren't you?' I say, 'Yeah, that's me.' They say, 'Keep it up, wee man.' It's very funny and that's why I want to stay here as long as possible.

  Rory McIlroy

  Men, Long, People

  "McIlroy a Master in the making when he thinks outside The Box". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. April 6, 2009.

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• I do go back to Ireland, and I'll probably be doing a film in Ireland in January, and I guess that kind of keeps me classified as 'the Irish actor,' but the last four or five projects that I've been in are either American or English, so I don't feel terribly trapped in that. But sometimes, yeah, you would like to not be called 'the Irish actor.' You'd prefer to just be called 'the actor.'

  Colm Meaney

  Actors, Four, Lasts

  Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. December 4, 2009.

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• Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother.

  Boyle Roche

  Sister, Brother, Two

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• I believe that the Union Flag should change now to reflect the four nations of the United Kingdom - England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales

  Ian Lucas

  Believe, Scotland, Flags

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• I'll tell you what, it doesn't get more beautiful than the west of Ireland. Connemara and County Derry are quite stunning, really.

  Matthew William Goode

  Beautiful, West, Stunning

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I grew up in Ireland, and the ocean was never more than an arm's length away. As lovely as the mountains are and as friendly as the people of Utah are, I feel a bit landlocked here.

  Roma Downey

  Ocean, Utah, People

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• I love to travel the world. My husband and I always travel and everywhere we go I've been to Italy, of course London, Ireland, and you just receive so much love.

  Tamera Mowry

  Husband, World, London

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• St. Patrick's Day is a holy day for Roman Catholics in Ireland to pray and a day for drunk people to vomit with their pants down in New Jersey.

  Margot Leitman

  Drinking, Holy Days, People

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• In Ireland, I don't get asked out much. English boys are a lot more flirty.

  Georgia Salpa

  Flirty, Boys

  "Georgia shows off her bum and boobs as she competes for 100 Sexiest Women position" by Beth Hardie, www.mirror.co.uk. May 1, 2012.

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