Top 1200 Irish Catholic Quotes & Sayings - Page 20
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Last updated on November 15, 2024.
Of the Sturges family, much more is known than is available about poor Irish immigrants and obscure Scottish-English settlers around Rochester.
The school I went to was so Gaelic that you learned how to play the tin whistle and how to Irish-dance in class.
I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.
The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question.
A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.
My name is a form of an Irish/Gaelic name that means 'Red King.'
My mom is Filipino and my dad is half Russian and half Irish.
My father named me Kelli because 'Kelli O'Hara' just sounded so Irish.
I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.
I made my final collection in college in London using Irish handwoven wool. That is how I discovered Ireland first; I just fell in love with it, really.
But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible
Well, I couldn't speak English before I went to Belfast. So I learned English with a Northern Irish accent.
Why do we like being Irish? Partly because
It gives us a hold on the sentimental English
As members of a world that never was,
Baptized with fairy water
I would love to be able to speak my own language and maybe have an interview in Irish, maybe after my fights.
English, Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish football gains so much from being in Europe. Clubs and fans all benefit from European action, laws and funding.
I like Irish pubs, except for all the loud music and drinking, and people acting like idiots.
It's a loser's emblem (swastika), because the Nazis lost the war. It's ridiculous to suggest we are involved with fascists. All my best friends are black, gay, Irish or criminals.
I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It's about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a fascinating period and place for me
I'm really happy I went to a Catholic school because a lot of the repressive tactics they use make for great senses of humor.
I'm hugely proud of being Irish. And I don't even know what that means. I just know that it's true.
I'm Irish in the mythic, romantic sense, but in the living sense, I'm a Londoner.
No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation.
I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.
Yes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on.
I've always been fond of my heritage, particularly my Irish heritage. But I'm also from all over the world.
[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.
I must admit, even though I'm the product of two Jewish parents, I think the Irish temper got in there somewhere, so I'm going to check Mom's genealogy.
There are a few Irish writers who have a very strong influence on me, especially on the 'Take Me to Church' EP.
As long as Ireland is unfree the only honourable attitude for Irish men, women to have is an attitude of rebellion.
The desire for legitimate offspring is, in fact, according to the Catholic Church, the only motive which can justify sexual intercourse.
My only counsel to Ireland is that in order to become deeply Irish, she must become European.
I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin.
There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment.
There might well have been an Irish great-great-grandfather of mine back then in the 1800s.
The whole world has American dreams. This country has people from all parts of the world. We have Irish who live here, we have Brazilians.
I was raised a Catholic, so I can even feel a little, you know, embarrassed or guilty if I'm really offending people's sensibilities. To a degree.
I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It's about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a fascinating period and place for me.
But I will say that living in Ireland has changed the cadence and fullness of speech, since the Irish love words and use as many of them in a sentence as possible.
I grew up mostly with classical, big band, and a lot of Irish music - I really didn't start listening to rock and roll until I was maybe sixteen.
I have a bit of a love affair with fairy tales and some of the ideas of Irish mythology, like Oscar Wilde and W.B. Yeats, who captured a lot of that very beautifully.
Why would our president close the embassy to the Vatican? Hopefully, it is not retribution for Catholic organizations opposing Obamacare.
I do believe in God. I was raised Catholic. For me, personally, I was always very thoughtful about projects that I chose for myself.
Raised Roman Catholic up until 11 or 12, didn't stick. Went out into the world and did my own thing.
I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identity.
I was actually a single man until I was 41. Rather late. Irish marry late.
I used to have an Australian accent for school and an Irish accent for home.
It was in a stonecutter's house where I went to have a headstone made for Raftery's grave that I found a manuscript book of his poems, written out in the clear beautiful Irish characters.
I am Michael, and I am part English, Irish, German, and Scottish, sort of a virtual United Nations.
Us Irish are kind of like that: we're hard grafters. We like to prove everybody wrong.
Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste.
I am delighted with the strong vote I have received. My message of positive leadership, patriotism and commitment clearly was resonating with tens of thousands of ordinary Irish people.
The Irish always jest even though they jest with tears.
I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious.
My mother - the Irish side of the family - was very musical. My mother was a singer; there was music around the house all the time.
My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish.
I think it's an Irish thing. We don't really care. We say it as we mean it, and you have to deal with it. The truth is the truth.
Extraordinary scenes there at the end. I think some of the crowd chanting 'Italy! Italy!' were actually Irish.
I grew up in a world that was clannish - old Tasmanian-Irish families with big extended families.
I'm from a small Irish family of 10, so there always was music in the house. Growing up, my older sisters had things like 'South Pacific' and opera on.
