Ireland Quotes - Page 17

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

  Anjelica Huston

  Kind, Happens, Lunacy

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• There is more talent per square metre in Ireland than there is anywhere else. We just don't harness or help them ... the radio stations prefer to support the likes of Rihanna and Beyonce.

  Louis Walsh

  Squares, Support, Radio

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• It was amazing that I was ever elected.

  Ian Paisley

  Northern Ireland

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• The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question.

  Katharine Tynan

  Trouble, Has Beens

  Katharine Tynan (1922). “The Wandering Years”

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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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• 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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• The English should give Ireland home rule - and reserve the motion picture rights.

  Will Rogers

  Home, Rights, Giving

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• I have a theory about Ireland, being at the edge of Europe. For 1,000 years, people didnt know what was beyond. But we thought about it - a lot. And that beyond became internalized in our psyche.

  Conor McPherson

  Years, Europe, People

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• Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Church, Aristocracy, Population

  'Hansard' 16 February 1844

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• My grandfather is from Ireland. His name is Florence McCarthy. He moved to New York in 1920. They used to beat him up because his name was Florence. He had to switch his name to Frank. And then this Christmas, he made an announcement - he goes, 'I'm switching me name back to Florence.' And we beat him up, 'cause it's a dumb name and he's old and weak and it was easy.

  Greg Fitzsimmons

  New York, Names, Dumb

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• We seem to be a side that if we don't score we get beat.

  Jason McAteer

  Sides, Beats, Score

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• Inter have bought the finished article and there's no doubt he can keep improving.

  Mick McCarthy

  Doubt, Articles, Improving

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• All I knew about Ireland before I went there was what I learned from watching soap commercials all my life. I was totally misinformed. I thought it was an Irish tradition where you don't even take a shower with your soap - you take your soap for a walk, you compliment the soap for a little while and then, suddenly, you just start hacking it up with a hunting knife.

  Arj Barker

  Hunting, Knives, Littles

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• Come, fix upon me that accusing eye.
  I thirst for accusation. All that was sung.
  All that was said in Ireland is a lie
  Breed out of the contagion of the throng,
  Saving the rhyme rats hear before they die.

  William Butler Yeats

  Lying, Eye, Saving

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

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• For the young Gaels of Ireland
  Are the lads that drive me mad,
  For half their words need footnotes
  And half their rhymes are bad.

  Arthur Guiterman

  Mad, Needs, Half

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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