Ireland Quotes - Page 13

• I can tell you why I like different countries. Ireland - some of the funniest heckles I've ever gotten. And the last time I did England I did Bristol, Manchester, and then London. The whole country is just amazing to drive through.

  Bill Burr

  Country, Different, London

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• In the meantime the big corporations are fleeing America for tax havens and places like Ireland, Luxembourg and the Grand Cayman Islands; the rich are finding more tax loopholes to expect; so when are the people going to basically roll up their sleeves and say, we've had enough, we're going to recapture Congress.

  Ralph Nader

  Islands, America, People

  Source: www.cpa-connecticut.com

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• I'm far from believing that we've solved the problem of violence in the 20th century and that's why I'm not discouraged that we still have the Biafras and the Northern Irelands and the East Pakistans and, for that matter, violence in American or Canadian cities.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Believe, Cities, Matter

  Source: presbyterianrecord.ca

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• In Northern Ireland, people said there would never be a solution. But once people begin to have the political will and force their governments to sit down, it can happen.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Government, Political Will, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Our view is that we would want to see the situation in Ireland resolved, but we do not intervene in that situation for tactical reasons. Our view is commonly known that imperialism wherever it is must be fought and that justice must be done in Ireland.

  Robert Mugabe

  Views, Justice, Done

  Source: www.revolutionarycommunist.org

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• Microsoft is in a court battle with the Department of Justice. The DOJ is saying, "We want information from your data center in Ireland. It's not about a US citizen, but we want it." Microsoft said, "OK, fine. Go to a judge in Ireland. Ask them for a warrant. We have a mutual legal-assistance treaty. They'll do it. Give that to us, and we'll provide the information to you in accordance with Irish laws."

  Edward Snowden

  Law, Data, Giving

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• I always tell people, you know, [J.F.Kennedy's] grandfather was born in Ireland and he was Irish-Catholic, and I thought, so maybe I could someday try do what he did.

  Mike Pence

  People, Catholic, Grandfather

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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• As a citizen of Ireland I have more sovereignty over our government. Because citizens now have more ways of holding the Irish government to account, not just under Irish constitutional law, but under the European system, at Strasbourg and Brussels. This, I believe, is the benefit for individual citizens.

  Mary Robinson

  Believe, Government, Law

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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• Ireland is not in a good place at the moment. We have our own humiliation of losing our economic sovereignty, and we're now regaining it slowly and painfully.

  Mary Robinson

  Losing, Moments, Economic

  Source: www.dailymaverick.co.za

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• My middle name is Nicole. It's so weird because my mom is from El Salvador, but my sisters and I have Irish names - Christy, Kelly, and Erin. And Christy and Kelly, they're not even girls' names! In Ireland, they're boys' names. And somehow, my mom was in El Salvador dreaming about Shamrocks before we were born.

  Christy Turlington

  Girl, Mom, Dream

  Source: www.elle.com

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• It's the reason why so many people left Britain like I did in the mid 60s because Britain was exactly the same then as America is today, getting ready to redistribute social wealth and it didn't work. You've seen that in places like Greece, Portugal, Iceland, Ireland where the entire country's business has collapsed, gone bankrupt. That's where America is heading.

  Robin Leach

  Country, Iceland, America

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• That's why Apple, Microsoft and the big information technology companies have kept so much money registered abroad (although in US dollar accounts with a nominal foreign address's owner). They pretend to make their global income in Ireland. They have an office, which could be simply a postal drop box in Ireland, and claim to make all their money there, not in America.

  Michael Hudson

  Technology, Apples, America

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smith's autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape.

  Ellie Goulding

  Song, Couple, Guitar

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.

  Lady Gregory

  Country, Giving Up, World

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Celtic Folklore Collection”, p.143, eBookIt.com

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• As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.

  Lady Gregory

  Men, Firsts, Greyhounds

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.495, eBookIt.com

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• From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages.

  Lady Gregory

  Son, Bird, Rising

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.87, eBookIt.com

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• It is what the poets of Ireland used to be saying, that every brave man, good at fighting, and every man that could do great deeds and not be making much talk about them, was of the Sons of the Gael; and that every skilled man that had music and that did enchantments secretly, was of the Tuatha de Danaan.

  Lady Gregory

  Fighting, Son, Men

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.87, eBookIt.com

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• It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that were called afterwards the Sons of the Gael, made their first attempt to land in Ireland to avenge Ith, one of their race that had come there one time and had met with his death.

  Lady Gregory

  Son, Race, Land

  Lady Gregory (1905). “Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha de Danaan and of the Fianna of Ireland”

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• I am encouraged to see women are being elected in Chile, Argentina, Liberia, Ireland. More is more.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Argentina, Chile

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• I remember my dad came from Ireland and Scotland, and so he carried with him the fear of poverty. So when I wanted to break loose, it kind of made him very nervous.

  Robert Redford

  Dad, Scotland, Poverty

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• I know most of the photographers in Ireland. And if I don't want my photograph taken, they will leave me alone.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Taken, Leave Me Alone, Want

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• Ah, Ireland... That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Country, Opposites, Delightful

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• These developments - a massive transfer of land by way of inheritance and purchase, an unprecedented rise in the profitability of land and increasing intermarriage between Celtic and English dynasties - helped to consolidate a new unitary ruling class in place of the more separate and specific landed establishments that had characterised England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland in the Tudor and Stuart eras.

  Linda Colley

  Land, Class, Tudors

  Linda Colley (2005). “Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837”, p.161, Yale University Press

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• There will be no support in the island of Ireland for building a nuclear power station.

  Peter Hain

  Islands, Support, Nuclear

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• The big missing part of the jig-saw is to get the assembly back up and running here in Northern Ireland, to get shared government back in business, that is my objective, and we await the IRA statement to see if this will trigger a new dawn.

  Peter Hain

  Running, Government, Missing

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