Ireland Quotes - Page 15

• I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.

  Van Morrison

  Thinking, People, Liking Someone

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• The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people.

  Eamon de Valera

  Winning, People, Lost Friendship

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• For far too long, the people of Northern Ireland have been denied an equal voice and equal representation in government. It is time for the Assembly and Executive to be up and running and the people's business to be addressed.

  James T. Walsh

  Running, Business, Government

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• I have nothing to regret, to retract or take back . . . I can only say; God Save Ireland!

  Edward Condon

  Regret, Republican, I Can

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• After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. ... The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor.

  George William Russell

  Spiritual, World, Unconquerable Will

  "The Economics of Ireland and the Policy of the British Government". Book by George William Russell, 1921.

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• It is not only our duty to America, but also to Ireland. We could not hope to succeed in our effort to make Ireland a Republic without the moral and material support of the liberty-loving citizens of these United States.

  Thomas Francis Meagher

  America, Support, Effort

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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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• The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.

  Boyle Roche

  Half, Cups, Misery

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• People in Northern Ireland vote for their church, they don't vote with their heads; it is ridiculous.

  Frank Carson

  People, Church, Ridiculous

  "It's a cracker for Ukip as Frank Carson pledges support" by Henry McDonald, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2011.

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• Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States.

  Harri Holkeri

  War, Independent, Years

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• The Scots (originally Irish, but by now Scotch) were at this time inhabiting Ireland, having driven the Irish (Picts) out of Scotland; while the Picts (originally Scots) were now Irish (living in brackets) and vice versa. It is essential to keep these distinctions clearly in mind (and verce visa).

  W. C. Sellar

  Scotch, Scotland, Mind

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• I'm going to be looking forward, asked to be judged on my record, not taken back as has been the - in a sense, the tendency throughout politics in Northern Ireland, is to always look back, always look at what was said a long time ago, instead of looking forward.

  Peter Hain

  Taken, Long, Looks

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• My job now, as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, is to take this process forward, and that I'm determined to do, whatever old clippings you dig out and whatever old quotes you put before me.

  Peter Hain

  Jobs, Determined, States

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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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• Catholicism is more than a religion, it is a political power. Therefore I'm led to believe there will be no peace in Ireland until the Catholic Church is crushed

  Oliver Cromwell

  Believe, Political, Catholic

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• Religion dies hard in the Irish.

  Katharine Tynan

  Dies, Hard

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• I'm sure there's a hell of a party in Ireland now and I know I don't have anything to do for two-and-a-half days so I'm going to party on

  Padraig Harrington

  Party, Two, Half

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• And there I saw in the night the vision of a man....coming as it were from Ireland, with countless letters. And he gave me one of them, and I read the opening words of the letter, which were, The voice of the Irish...and as I read the beginning of the letter I thought that at the same moment I heard their voice - they were those beside the Wood of Voclut, which is near the Western Sea - and thus did they cry out as with one mouth: We ask thee, boy, come and walk among us once more.

  Saint Patrick

  Faith, Inspiration, Boys

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• Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older.

  Katharine Tynan

  People, Tricks, Wince

  Katharine Tynan (1913). “Twenty-five Years: Reminiscences”

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• Ireland is a small but insuppressible island half an hour nearer the sunset than Great Britain.

  Tom Kettle

  Sunset, Islands, Half

  Tom Kettle (1918). “The day's burden: studies, literary & political and miscellaneous essays”

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• Well, it has done terrifying things. Religious ideas are inflammatory in a way that I find difficult to understand. There are very few wars over the theory of relativity. Very few heated arguments, for that matter. Whereas, in Northern Ireland, they are killing one another over religion.

  Quentin Crisp

  Religious, War, Ideas

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• There's a certain status to suffering in Ireland, that the person who - if you're sitting around a table, the person with the greatest status is the person who had the most horrible thing happen to them most recently.

  Michael Lewis

  Suffering, Sitting, Tables

  "Michael Lewis’ 'Boomerang': 'Money Thrown Out in Hope, Coming Back in Anger'". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 21, 2011.

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• The lower interest rates fueled housing and consumption booms in countries such as Spain and Ireland. At the same time, Germany, struggling with the burdens of reunification, tightened its belt and became more competitive. All this led to a wide divergence in economic performance. Europe became divided into creditor and debtor countries.

  George Soros

  Country, Struggle, Europe

  "George Soros on the Euro Crisis". Interview with Der Spiegel, www.georgesoros.com. June 26, 2012.

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• Up in the north of Scotland, a lot of the villages are completely Viking names. A lot of Vikings came down and settled in Scotland and in Ireland. And a lot of them didn't, but they took plenty of us with them - mostly the chicks.

  Gerard Butler

  Names, Scotland, Village

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