Top 1200 Northern Ireland Quotes & Sayings

Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can't be too optimistic.

I was filming a movie in London, and I drove through Ireland. It was quite beautiful, and the countryside was really remarkable. The contrast between the countryside and Ireland, and the murals there, with Northern Ireland still being a part of the United Kingdom, there's just a stark contrast in those two things. And I found that the art that came out of the conflict was really spectacular because it was about remembering either events or points of view for local neighborhoods, or the rallying cries of one side against the other.

No-one wants to see a return to the hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland.

I am a proud product of Irish golf and the Golfing Union of Ireland and am hugely honoured to have come from very rich Irish sporting roots... I am also a proud Ulsterman who grew up in Northern Ireland. That is my background and always will be.

I love going back to Northern Ireland.

My father was from Northern Ireland, and coming from somewhere like that, your faith defines you. That's something we don't really understand outside Northern Ireland, but because of my parents and grandparents, I've experienced it.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

Northern Ireland is part of Ireland, not Britain, as can clearly be seen from aerial photographs.

I was born in Northern Ireland, also known as Ulster, and I'm Scots-Irish, therefore.

We really need to come behind and press for marriage equality in Northern Ireland.

It's a complicated relationship with the place one grows up in, particularly if it's Northern Ireland.

Because Scotland and Northern Ireland want to remain part of the E.U., there is the quite real possibility that Scotland and even Northern Ireland might now choose to go their own way on membership within the E.U. and the 'United Kingdom' would suddenly effectively be only England and Wales.

Jonny Evans plays sort of international football with Northern Ireland

We would only need a bespoke solution for Northern Ireland if Britain leaves the Single Market.

Northern Ireland is the world’s best kept secret, both in the character of its people and its scenery.

A Canada-style deal for the whole of the UK results in a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. For that reason, it has never been acceptable to the EU without a permanent hard border down the Irish Sea.

The pursuit of an extreme Brexit cannot come at the cost of peace in Northern Ireland.

I've always given 110% for Northern Ireland, for my country. I'll never throw in the towel.

The flight I'm most excited about is the one that takes me back to Northern Ireland to visit family and friends.

We used to spend a lot of time as kids in Northern Ireland, on the border and in southern Ireland as well.

I grew up during one of Northern Ireland's most complex periods.

It was easy for some to jump on the Brexit result and use it to make a land-grab for Northern Ireland, and it was counterproductive.

That feeds anger, and I mean when we went and at last thank heavens got towards peace in Northern Ireland we went for justice within Northern Ireland as well as using security well, as well as a political settlement, but surely that is the lesson.

When people are faced with a choice between the Northern Ireland they have got and the perfect Northern Ireland, they complain. But in the real world that isn't the choice.

Both the U.K. and the E.U. have made a sincere commitment to the people of Northern Ireland: there will be no hard border. Equally, as a U.K. government, we could not countenance a future in which a border was drawn in the Irish Sea, separating Northern Ireland from the rest of the U.K.

Northern Ireland has a unique place in the Union. As the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement enshrined in law, the people of Northern Ireland can be British, Irish or neither.

I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world.

Since the Protestant majority in Northern Ireland wants to remain a part of Great Britain, and since Ireland itself has shown little interest in reunification, the IRA's prospects for success through political channels have always been limited.

If Northern Ireland is in one customs regime and the Republic of Ireland is in another, why won't a customs border be necessary, just as happens with every other land border of this type?

It's an extraordinary thing, this tiny little province of Northern Ireland, where carnage happened. And I was part of it. I grew up in it.

I felt when I was elected that the most important task on this island [Ireland] was to extend the hand of friendship right across the board to the people of Northern Ireland, to have the beginnings of a real peace process. In consequence, although I have no role in intergovernmental talks or political discussions, that would be my very top priority.

I've never put Northern Ireland into a novel because it's not my territory. I come from the South, so my imaginative territory is very much the Republic of Ireland rather than the North. Even though, if I wrote a novel about the North, it might sell more.

As a guy from Northern Ireland who supported Celtic and worked in football, I'm living my dream here.

Ireland and its people have much to be proud of. Yet every land and its people have moments of shame. Dealing with the failures of our past, as a country, as a Church, or as an individual is never easy. Our struggle to heal the wounds of decades of violence, injury and painful memory in Northern Ireland are more than ample evidence of this.

Northern Ireland has treated me well, you know?

We now have political chaos. We've got parties in Ireland saying they want to merge with Northern Ireland. You've got parties in Scotland saying you want to leave the U.K. You've got the Spanish government saying it would like to take ownership of Gibraltar, which is a British overseas territory... So just the politics of this is a mess.

Your name is Sanchez, what are you doing playing for Northern Ireland?

John Irwin became one of the greatest peace workers in Northern Ireland.

I've got my roots in Northern Ireland - my biological father's side of the family were from Belfast.

But if I ever fight in Northern Ireland again, I want it to be at Windsor Park.

Northern Ireland, England, Scotland - when we play each other, you don't want to lose to a neighbouring country.

I'm involved in Northern Ireland Screen and have been for a long time, so I keep my eyes open and ears to the ground.

I loved my time growing up in Northern Ireland doing youth drama, that is where it all began for me.

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

The country I live in is never clear about its name. My passport says 'the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,' and citizens of the U.K. may call themselves British, English, Scottish, Welsh or from Northern Ireland.

People were so keen to get investment. In those days, there was quite significant unemployment in Northern Ireland, and that had been the general pattern in Northern Ireland for many, many years.

I am a proud product of Irish golf and the Golfing Union of Ireland and am hugely honoured to have come from very rich Irish sporting roots I am also a proud Ulsterman who grew up in Northern Ireland. That is my background and always will be.

I nominate the Reverend Ian Paisley for the position of First Minister of northern Ireland

I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987.

I've always been fascinated with Ireland, especially Northern Ireland, having lived in London in the '80s when there was an Irish republican bombing campaign there.

Barney was interested in bringing professional boxing back to Northern Ireland in a big way.

Queen's University flies the flag for the arts in Northern Ireland and beyond.

On my Wikipedia page, it used to say I was born in Belfast, Ireland, then it said Belfast, Northern Ireland, and then it said Belfast, U.K. So there was a little war going on about where Belfast is located.

In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.

I think a lot of us who grew up in Northern Ireland weren't politicised enough, frankly.

My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.

It's Northern Ireland, it's Ireland, it's Scotland, it's Wales, there's Scousers, Londoners, all behind me.

You know, the pessimism which exists now in the Middle East existed in Northern Ireland, but we stayed at it.

A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.

I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987