Celtic Quotes - Page 2

• I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it.

  Douglas Hyde

  Character, Helping, Irishmen

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• The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Song, War, Men

  Ballad of the White Horse (1911) bk. 2, p. 35

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• This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.

  Sigmund Freud

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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• I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes.

  Joanna Newsom

  Song, Play, Keys

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

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• 'Celtic' is a magic bag, into which anything may be put, and out of which almost anything may come. Anything is possible in the fabulous Celtic twilight, which is not so much a twilight of the gods as of the reason.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Twilight, Magic, Bags

  "English and Welsh". Lecture at the University of Oxford on October 21, 1955. "The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays". Book edited by Christopher Tolkien, 1983.

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• Treasured Pagan Deities were misrepresented and distorted by the Christians for political and religious gain. Dressing their own Satan, who has remained one of the most opressive symbols of evil in our time, in the horned antlers of Cernunnos, a revered Celtic God, was one of the more recognizable ways Christians robbed Pagans of their way of life.

  Laurie Cabot

  Christian, Religious, Evil

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• Celtic Tiger portrays the oppression of a people and the tiger symbolises the awakening of their Spirit and their struggle for freedom.

  Michael Flatley

  Struggle, Thinking, Favourite City

  "Celtic Tiger" by Lizzie Guilfoyle, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• As a player I won things, had a special 10 years under Martin O'Neill [at Leicester and Celtic] and played in some great teams, beating Manchester United and getting to the last 16 of the Champions League. As a manager, I don't know if I will top this; I hope I do, because I am still young and am still learning. But this is up there with anything I have achieved, not just in my football career but in my life.

  Neil Lennon

  Football, Team, Player

  "Celtic's Neil Lennon: I haven't bettered this Barcelona win in my life" by Ewan Murray, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2012.

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• Celtic have scored in the 50th consecutive game in which they've managed to score

  Barry Davies

  Football, Games, Score

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• The Celtic fans are very special and the club and players can be very proud of them. They are the best I have ever heard.

  Andres Iniesta

  Player, Special, Fans

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• There's something about Celtic mythology which is deep in the soul, and I just think that somehow she has tapped right into it.

  Enya

  Thinking, Soul, Mythology

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• Alasdair Fraser's Culburnie Records has quietly become one of the best Celtic music labels today.

  Jim Lee

  Labels, Records, Today

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• Surely there are enough Celtic songs without introducing religion or politics or anything else.

  Jock Stein

  Song, Introducing, Enough

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• I am interested in most mythology. Celtic or Christian no more than anything else. I will admit to a pleasure and sense of hope in what I see as the basic teachings of Christ, stripped of the nonsense that has sometimes been accumulated about them and the embarrassing misunderstanding.

  Tanith Lee

  Christian, Teaching, Sometimes

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• I predicted in August that Celtic would reach the final. On the eve of that final I stand by that prediction.

  Archie Macpherson

  Soccer, Football, August

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• I was born in the island of Ireland. I have Irish traits in me - we don't all have the traits of what came from Scotland, there is the celtic factor... and I am an Irishman because you cannot be an Ulsterman without being an Irishman.

  Ian Paisley

  Islands, Scotland, Born

  "Unionist Politics and the Politics of Unionism Since the Anglo-Irish Agreement". Book by Feargal Cochrane, 1997.

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• To be a catalyst is one of my life's objectives. I've been inspired by many people who in turn have been catalysts. It's very interesting to see the waves of interest come and go in Celtic territory. If I can be a catalyst for other people, that's wonderful.

  Loreena McKennitt

  People, Interesting, Territory

  "Times of Discovery". Interview with Anil Prasad, www.innerviews.org. 1991.

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• Halloween is an ancient druidic holiday, one the Celtic peoples have celebrated for millennia. It is the crack between the last golden rays of summer and the dark of winter; the delicately balanced tweak of the year before it is given over entirely to the dark; a time for the souls of the departed to squint, to peek and perhaps to travel through the gap. What could be more thrilling and worthy of celebration than that? It is a time to celebrate sweet bounty, as the harvest is brought in. It is a time of excitement and pleasure for children before the dark sets in. We should all celebrate that.

  Jenny Colgan

  Summer, Sweet, Children

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• I think if you've managed Celtic or Rangers you can go on to be Prime Minister of Great Britain, it's that hard.

  Gordon Strachan

  Soccer, Football, Thinking

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• Once Celtic got their equaliser, they played a sort of anti-football.

  Frank Rijkaard

  Soccer, Football, Chairman

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• When Celtic get an opportunity to go above Rangers they've got to jump at it with both hands.

  Alan Mullery

  Opportunity, Hands, Rangers

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• I have come to use the pan-Celtic history, which spans from 500 BC to the present, as a creative springboard. The music I am creating is a result of traveling down that road and picking up all manner of themes and influences, which may or may not be overtly Celtic in nature.

  Loreena McKennitt

  Creating, Creative, Use

  Website notes to "The Mask And Mirror" on official site, loreenamckennitt.com.

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• My proudest moment? Every Friday morning when I look at the board at Celtic Park and see my name on the team sheet for tomorrow's game.

  Jock Stein

  Friday, Morning, Team

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