Top 1200 Great Irish Quotes & Sayings - Page 8
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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
I just wasn't cut out to be a Chinese Tiger Mom. I'm more of an Irish Setter Dad.
The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever... because they already live in a dream world.
That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?
Irish politicians are very accessible to the public, just the messenger boys for the local constituency.
If I'd wanted this place to fill up with every fat Irish rose that passes by, I'd've said so.
My usual trick with the Irish plays is to set things on islands I've never been to.
I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood, but my mom is Filipino-Spanish and my dad is Irish.
I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.
I like Guinness, and that will make anyone Irish. That and soda bread, and I'm good to go.
You don't see very many Irish-Cypriot pop-up restaurants kicking about!
I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.
I've heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke.
There's no sense to being Irish unless you know the world's going to break your heart.
Many suffer so that some day all Irish people may know justice and peace.
The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.
I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.
We Irish are born dreamers; sometimes we never wake up at all, and then we're counted failures.
Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older.
I know that Boston is one of the great centers of intellectual culture as well as sport. It's one of the centers of America, with a great orchestra, great sports, great hospitals, and great universities.
We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks
The lion's share of the damage to the Irish economy was the fault of domestic, economic, and financial mismanagement.
When I'm lying drunk at an airport the press call me Irish... but when I win an Oscar, I'm classified as British.
Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.
In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish.
Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality.
I'm half Scotch-Irish on both sides, and when I lose my temper-brother, I go.
My mother was from upstate New York; she's of Irish and German descent. My father was from Ghana.
My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn.
I own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything.
It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say.
Irish mythology is gorgeous, and so are the fairies, but they are very misrepresented in the U.K. They are not little creatures with wings.
My Irish passport makes me look like a chief of staff for the Provisional IRA.
The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned........THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer.
I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
I was born in Vietnam, and I was adopted by an Irish lady and a Hungarian man, and then I moved to America.
I have so many great friends, so many great memories, so many great pictures, so many great songs, so many great relationships with people. I definitely feel, for the last 15 years, that I spent my time very wisely. And that's a great thing to be able to look back at.
The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.
I kick myself that I don't speak Irish. Ah, man, I'd love to. I am going to learn.
Only the Irish working class remains as the incorruptible inheritors of the fight for freedom in Ireland.
My dad's from Zimbabwe, and my mom is Danish, Irish, and Norwegian, so I have influences from a lot of different places.
I was freelancing for years in Cork and around. I also wrote freelance pieces for 'The Irish Times.'
I grew up in a very old-fashioned Roman Catholic, Italian-Irish family in Philly.
I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for my Mum. I know I've got Irish blood because I wake up everyday with a hangover.
I think it is fair to say that 2007 represents a turning point for the Irish economy.
I love the fact that Inuit poetry may resonate with me as much as Irish.
I was born in Northern Ireland, also known as Ulster, and I'm Scots-Irish, therefore.
Irish people are pragmatic. They understand that nobody is going to fix our problems but ourselves.
I'm Irish, so I'm messing all the time. Which means, I'm having a laugh. I'm always making jokes.
Hell, I'm not saying I'm an angel, but when it came to dirty tricks I couldn't hold a candle to the Irish Mafia.
My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.
Supporting Celtic, waving a tricolour because your parents are Irish - that's a valid culture.
My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
Well, I did go to Irish dancing lessons as a kid, but I was slapped and never went again.
Far in foreign fields from Dunkirk to Belgrade
Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade.
Ya see I'm Irish, but I'm not a leprechaun.
You wanna fight, then step up and we'll get it on!
I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish
Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.
With such riches as I have in life, you're always nervous. Being Irish, you're waiting for something to knock it sideways.
The revelations of the Cloyne report have brought the government, Irish Catholics, and the Vatican to an unprecedented juncture.
We have to be concerned about the gun killing that people who are Americans, who are Irish, and who are English, who are all around the country.
