Ireland Quotes - Page 9

• There has been no lack of courage in Ireland; there never is, but even our courage has a fatal quality.

  Susan Mitchell

  Quality, Has Beens

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• Ireland regards sex, when she regards it at all, with an entirely primitive and practical eye.

  Susan Mitchell

  Sex, Eye, Primitive

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• We in Ireland are gifted beyond most peoples with a talent for acting, and in Dublin especially, while scorning culture, which indeed we have not got, we are possessed of a most futile and diverting cleverness.

  Susan Mitchell

  Acting, Culture, Dublin

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• We Irish are born dreamers; sometimes we never wake up at all, and then we're counted failures.

  Katherine Cecil Thurston

  Dreamer, Wake Up, Sometimes

  Katherine Cecil Thurston (2012). “Max”, p.63, tredition

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• The land of Ireland for the people of Ireland

  James Larkin

  Land, People

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• Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this cold age of intellect and skepticism.

  Lydia M. Child

  Heart, Glowing, Age

  "Letters from New York". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Letter No. 33, 1843.

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• like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

  Jennifer Stone

  Mother, Tissues, Scar

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• To subvert the tyranny of our execrable government, to break the connection with England, the never-failing source of all our political evils and to assert the independence of my country- these were my objectives. To unite the whole people of Ireland, to abolish the memory of all past dissensions, and to substitute the common name of Irishman in place of the denominations of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter - these were my means.

  Wolfe Tone

  Country, Memories, Mean

  Sean Cronin, Richard Roche, Theobald Wolfe Tone (1973). “Freedom the Wolfe Tone way”

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• I was always attracted to the type of cinema hero as an adolescent growing up in Ireland. Robert Mitchum springs to mind. Later on, it was Steve McQueen to a certain extent and Charles Bronson. They're these types of grizzled characters who had one foot on the side of law and order and the other foot in the bad guy's camp.

  Liam Neeson

  Growing Up, Spring, Hero

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Ireland is a wonderful place to write in. Even although the atmosphere was so Faith-laden that I was often worried that I was not writing a book to the glory of God, I had to admit that words flowed from my pen like all-get-out. To be honest, there is nothing to do in Ireland but write.

  Nancy Spain

  Book, Writing, Atmosphere

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• I know that many Irish-born New Yorkers are caught in the trap of our federal immigration policies. If we are going to continue to attract the best and the brightest - and Ireland has more than its fair share - we need to inject some common sense into our immigration laws, and I'm doing my best to make that case in Washington.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Law, Common Sense, Immigration

  Michael Bloomberg's Speech At Breakfast Reception In Sligo, Ireland, www1.nyc.gov. August 22, 2006.

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• It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?

  Dorothy Salisbury Davis

  Attachment, Wonder, Series

  Dorothy Salisbury Davis (2014). “The Habit of Fear”, p.212, Open Road Media

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• the Irish ... are full of the fear of the Lord and the joy of living, and they don't know how to combine the two, but they'll sure have a good time trying.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Two, Joy, Trying

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• we Irish don't really need thousands of people surging behind a big brass band to have a parade. One guitar player and a few people whistling will do the job.

  Gene Tierney

  Jobs, Player, Brass Bands

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system.

  Mary Robinson

  Politics, Cradle, Being Irish

  "Big business becomes Mrs Robinson's affair" by Terry Slavin, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2004.

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• And the view was suddenly clear to me. The world opened out to its grim beyonds and I realized that, at forty, one must learn the rigors of acceptance. Capitalize it: Acceptance. I needed to accept what was put before me--be it a watery grave in Ireland's only natural fjord, or a return to the city and its grayer intensities, or a wordless exile in some steaming Cambodian swamp hole, or poems or no poems, or children or not, lovers or not, illness or otherwise, success or its absence. I would accept all that was put in my way, from here on through until I breathed my last.

  Kevin Barry

  Children, Acceptance, Views

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• You may have noticed there are three things an Irishman always puts his soul in: his religion, his sports, and his politics. If you ever find an Irishman who is wishy-washy on any one of those, you can make up your mind to it he is not the true article at all.

  Mary Deasy

  Sports, Soul, Mind

  Mary Deasy (1948). “The Hour of Spring”

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• I am hugely proud to have played for Ireland.

  Kenny Cunningham

  Proud

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• My grandfather was a really, really tough no-nonsense factory worker who emigrated from Ireland in about 1900 to Bridgeport, Conn. He had a big effect on me. Those guys who took a great leap out into what they knew not were the ones who were the real stars, the real heroes.

  Brian Dennehy

  Stars, Real, Hero

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• The Irish question is this: Do the Irish know the answer to everything? ... And the answer to that is that we know fifteen different answers to every question. All of them right.

  Olivia Robertson

  Different, Answers, Fifteen

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• There can be no perfect Europe in which Ireland is denied even the least of its national rights.

  James Connolly

  Rights, Europe, Perfect

  James Connolly, Peter Berresford-Ellis (1988). “James Connolly: Selected Writings”, p.142, Pluto Press

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• Jonny Evans plays sort of international football with Northern Ireland

  Phil Thompson

  Football, Play, Northern Ireland

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• Dublin people think they are the center of the world and the center of Ireland. And they don't realize that people have to leave Ireland to get work, and they look down on people who do.

  Martin McDonagh

  Thinking, People, Looks

  "Martin McDonagh, Our New Norman Mailer" by Lea Carpenter, bigthink.com.

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• Pomegranate Soup is glorious, daring and delightful.  I adored the Iranian sisters, Marjan, Bahar and Layla, who are looking to build a life, start a business and find love in a place so far from home. Ireland has never been more beautiful - the perfect setting for this story filled with humor, hope and possibility.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Beautiful, Home, Perfect

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• I lived in London in 1965 and 1972. I love it there and I'm always very creative in that vibe. Would love to live for awhile in Scotland/Ireland and Britain. Great appreciation there for the folk scene and song crafting.

  Creed Bratton

  Appreciation, Song, Scotland

  Source: rocksucker.co.uk

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