Ireland Quotes - Page 3

• For me, diversity is not a value. Diversity is what you find in Northern Ireland. Diversity is Beirut. Diversity is brother killing brother. Where diversity is shared - where I share with you my difference - that can be valuable. But the simple fact that we are unlike each other is a terrifying notion. I have often found myself in foreign settings where I became suddenly aware that I was not like the people around me. That, to me, is not a pleasant discovery.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Brother, Simple, Differences

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I am Patrick, yes a sinner and indeed untaught; yet I am established here in Ireland where I profess myself bishop. I am certain in my heart that 'all that I am,' I have received from God. So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God.

  Saint Patrick

  Heart, Bishops, Tribes

  "Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus". Translated by John Skinner, www.ancienttexts.org.

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• On this day, millions of people...throughout the world will gather to commemorate the life of Patrick, patron saint of Ireland. From his days as a slave in Ireland to his work as missionary years later, St. Patrick demonstrated a courage, commitment, and faith that won the hearts and minds of the Irish people. St. Patrick's Day also serves as a time for people of Irish descent from all traditions and religions to honor their native land and shared heritage. Their devotion to family, faith, and community has strengthened our country's character.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Heart, Character

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• It is nothing, to give one’s life for Ireland. I’m not the first and maybe I won’t be the last. What’s my life compared with the cause?

  Kevin Barry

  Giving, Lasts, Firsts

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• They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart. The day will dawn when all the people of Ireland will have the desire for freedom to show. It is then that we will see the rising of the moon.

  Bobby Sands

  Freedom, Heart, Army

  Bobby Sands (1998). “Bobby Sands: Writings from Prison”, Mercier PressLtd

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• In Egypt the staff was rendered as a shepherd's crook that was a symbol for the pharaohs, the Druids of Egypt. The pharaohs wore the serpent on their headgear and the serpent was the symbol of the Magi of Ireland, the Naddreds, or Druids.

  Michael Tsarion

  Egypt, Shepherds, Crooks

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• No person knows better than you do that the domination of England is the sole and blighting curse of this country. It is the incubus that sits on our energies, stops the pulsation of the nation's heart and leaves to Ireland not gay vitality but horrid the convulsions of a troubled dream.

  Daniel O'Connell

  Dream, Country, Heart

  "O'Connell Correspondence, Vol IV". Book by Daniel O'Connell, Letter to Bishop Doyle (N. 1860), 1831.

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• The poor old Duke [of Wellington]! What shall I say of him? To be sure he was born in Ireland, but being born in a stable does not make a man a horse.

  Daniel O'Connell

  Horse, Men, Doe

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• In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish.

  Caroline Corr

  Rocks, Cranberries, Knows

  Buography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Armed struggle is a necessary and morally correct form of resistance in the Six Counties against a government whose presence is rejected by the vast majority of the Irish people There are those who tell us that the British government will not be moved by armed struggle. As has been said before, the history of Ireland and of British colonial involvement throughout the world tells us that they will not be moved by anything else.

  Gerry Adams

  Struggle, Government, People

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• There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.

  James Callaghan

  Loss, British Soldiers, Citizens

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• No Irish nationalist could support any treaty which institutionalizes British government claims to a part of Irish national territory. Indeed, the term - 'constitutional nationalism'- used by Mr.Mallon (SDLP) and his colleagues to describe their political philosophy is a contradiction in terms. The only constitutional nationalist in Ireland today is Sean McBride. He puts his nationalism within a framework of Irish constitutionality. Mr. Mallon, however, puts his within the framework of British constitutionality. Irish nationalism within British constitutionality is a contradiction in terms.

  Gerry Adams

  Philosophy, Government, Support

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• It was great to work in Ireland because it's such a beautiful country, but it's not particularly easy to film in because the weather changes all the time.

  Anjelica Huston

  Beautiful, Country, Weather

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• Only the Irish working class remains as the incorruptible inheritors of the fight for freedom in Ireland.

  James Connolly

  Fighting, Class, Republican

  James Connolly (1971). “Labour in Irish History”, p.27, Lulu.com

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• Ireland that has wronged no man, that has injured no land, that has sought no
  dominion over others. Ireland is treated today among other nations of the world as if she was a convicted criminal. If it be treason to fight against such an unnatural fate as this, then I am proud to be a rebel and shall cling to my rebellion with the last drop of my blood.

  Roger Casement

  Patriotic, Fate, Pride

  Sir Roger Casement (1917). “Trial of Sir Roger Casement”, Canada Law Book

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• I never think about themes. I let the music create itself. I like it to be a potpourri of all kinds of sounds, all kinds of colors, something for everybody, from the farmer in Ireland to the lady who scrubs toilets in Harlem.

  Michael Jackson

  Thinking, Color, Sound

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Sports, Two, Socializing

  Elizabeth Bowen (1998). “Bowen's Court”

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• What Ireland needs now above all else is peace.

  Albert Reynolds

  Needs

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• I love to go to Ireland just to relax.

  Ronnie Wood

  Love, Relax

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• I am a proud product of Irish golf and the Golfing Union of Ireland and am hugely honoured to have come from very rich Irish sporting roots I am also a proud Ulsterman who grew up in Northern Ireland. That is my background and always will be.

  Rory McIlroy

  Golf, Roots, Unions

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• I grew up in Ireland, so I do not have a lot of respect for most politicians.

  Jasmine Guinness

  Politician, Grew Up, Grew

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  Northern Ireland is the world’s best kept secret, both in the character of its people and its scenery.

  Liam Neeson

  Character, Best Kept Secrets, People

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• Here is the full list of the banned words I used: active homosexual; career women; Third World; blacks; Asians; Australasia; Bangalore; primitive African tribes; crippled; in a wheelchair; hare lip; ethnic minorities; handicapped; spinster; committed suicide; gypsies; Bombay; illegitimate daughter; air hostess; Siamese twins; Calcutta; deaf ears; illegal asylum seeker; province of Northern Ireland; grandmother; bachelor.

  Rod Liddle

  Daughter, Suicide, Grandmother

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• I speak many times about Stephen Ireland, that he is shy like a hedgehog.

  Giovanni Trapattoni

  Shy, Hedgehogs, Speak

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• Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since.

  Tana French

  Years, Class, Work Out

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