Irish Quotes - page 10

The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership. (Gerry Adams)
The choice was clearly open: crush them with vain and unstinted force, or try to give them what they want. These were the only alternatives, and though each had ardent advocates, most people were unprepared for either. Here indeed was the Irish spectre - horrid and inexorcisable. View quote
Winston Churchill
Icelanders! You are the descendants of Nordic vikings! Down with Irish slaves! View quote
Halldór Laxness
Speaking about his Irish/Jewish/Russian ancestors, Harrison Ford said that he is "Irish as a person but I feel Jewish as an actor.”. View quote
Harrison Ford
I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting. View quote
Pierce Brosnan
He turn'd him right and round about Upon the Irish shore; And gae his bridle reins a shake, With adieu forevermore, My dear- And adieu forevermore! View quote
Robert Burns
Well, here we are, the Irish in America. The Irish have been coming to America for years, going back to the great famine when the Irish were on the run from starvation and a British Government that couldn't care less. Right up to today, you know, there are more Irish immigrants here in America today than ever - some illegal, some legal. A lot of them are just running from high unemployment, some run from the Troubles in Northern Ireland, from the hatred of the H Blocks, torture. Others from wild acts of terrorism like we had today in a town called Enniskillen, where eleven people lie dead, and many more injured, on a Sunday Bloody Sunday. View quote
Bono
I will try to keep my homily brief. But be warned - I'm Irish. View quote
Bono
I've never left Ireland, really, you know you come here, come to America, I mean for Irish people America is kind of a promise land" ... "It's the milk and honey ya know and we've always had this feeling for this country and the country I think has a feeling for our band. View quote
Bono
Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico. View quote
Anthony Quinn
After September 11th I had tons of interviews everywhere, except the United States of course, and often it was national radio and TV. A couple of times it turned out to be Irish television and BBC back to back, and the difference in reaction was startling. If I said this much on Irish TV, OK, discussion over, everyone understands what I'm talking about. You try to say it on BBC, you have to go on for like about an hour to explain to them what you mean. The Irish sea is a chasm, and it just depends who's been holding the whip for 800 years and who's been under it for 800 years. (Noam Chomsky)
The Irish famine of 1846 killed more than 1,000,000 people, but it killed poor devils only. To the wealth of the country it did not the slightest damage. View quote
Karl Marx
The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine. View quote
Seamus Heaney
The Irish caught hell, the Jews caught hell, the Polacks caught hell. We want Ward 8 to be the model of diversity. View quote
Marion Barry
My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it was a beautiful country, and both the women and men were good-looking. View quote
James Cagney
There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either. View quote
James Callaghan
I've just recognized that, you know, all people have certain traits. ... The Jews have certain traits. The Irish have certain - for example, the Irish can't drink. What you always have to remember with the Irish is they get mean. Virtually every Irish I've known gets mean when he drinks. Particularly the real Irish. ... The Italians, of course, those people course don't have their heads screwed on tight. They are wonderful people, but ...The Jews are just a very aggressive and abrasive and obnoxious personality. View quote
Richard Nixon
Frank O'Connor, the Irish writer, tells in one of his books how, as a boy, he and his friends would make their way across the countryside, and when they came to an orchard wall that seemed too high and too doubtful to try and too difficult to permit their voyage to continue, they took off their hats and tossed them over the wall - and then they had no choice but to follow them. View quote
John F. Kennedy
I don't feel I have to defend myself for being English or for being Irish, because, in a way, I don't feel either. And, in another way, of course, I'm both. View quote
Martin McDonagh
Why are Americans so fascinated by Ireland?" Keith asked... "you all think you're Irish. What's the appeal? Do you like the accent more? Is it all the magical rocks? Oh, look, a lep­rechaun. View quote
Maureen Johnson
My family, theyre story tellers. My mom is Irish, and my dad is Italian. In my family, we werent allowed to watch TV while we ate - we had to sit around the table and tell stories about our day. (Meg Cabot)
Northern Ireland must, in future, be absorbed into the Irish republic. Wales and Scotland must advance from devolution to full independent status. The four nations of these islands must commit themselves absolutely to the project of a United Europe. View quote
Norman Davies
My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America. View quote
Olivia Wilde
For me, being Catholic was who I was and who I am, just like I'm Irish and Slovak. It's just so ingrained in us. View quote
Regina Brett
I'm just a loud Irish guy. View quote
Bill O'Reilly