Irish Quotes - page 13

The British Government and the Irish Government have accepted very clearly the Mitchell Report. (Dick Spring)
My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence. View quote
Dido Armstrong
I own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything. View quote
Dan Savage
My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I spent time at a convent and with an aunt and uncle who lived in New York and took me to the theater. View quote
Ellen Pompeo
Yes, I am an Irish lass through and through. View quote
Erin Andrews
For my last meal I'd want an Irish breakfast with soda bread and one of my dad's omelettes with three or four eggs. View quote
Erin O'Connor
Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history. View quote
Fiona Shaw
I'm Irish and always will be, but America has taught me so much. Maybe it's here in the U.S. that we find a healing, for in the broader melting pot we get to look at some of these self-destructive attributes that we bring to bear upon our own quarrels and begin to solve them in ways other than just splitting apart. View quote
Fionnula Flanagan
Most of my jokes are racist - usually about the Irish. View quote
Frank Carson
One night I was standing on Third Avenue playing my guitar, when this big Irish policeman came strolling by, and stopped to listen to my singing and playing. When I was done, he politely handed me a ticket for disturbing the peace, while at the same time telling me how much he liked my voice. I wish I still had that ticket. View quote
Frank Stallone
In Irish law, busking is considered vagrancy - you can be arrested for it. It's risky asking people for money in public. So it's not like it's a high-art job. And people who do it as a high-art job make very little money. (Glen Hansard)
There are not many Irish people playing tennis! View quote
Goran Ivanisevic
The English playwrights of the '50s and '60s didn't really keep writing or getting produced, while the Irish did. There's encouragement for the younger ones also in the fact that Ireland is exceptional in its ability to make theater part of the national dialogue, and it reaches to all four corners of the country. View quote
Garry Hynes
When you ask your white friends what their cultural heritage is, they don't just say white. They give you a math equation. 'Well, I'm a third German and a fourth Irish and one-sixteenth Welsh and one-fortieth Native American for college applications.' View quote
Hari Kondabolu
I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place. View quote
Harold Prince
I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish. View quote
Heather Matarazzo
The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland. View quote
James Larkin
I've heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke. View quote
James Nesbitt
When I hit the scene, there was Billy Connolly and Max Boyce. It was all mother-in-law and Irish jokes, and we broke the mould. Now there are thousands of comedians out there, and I don't think I can be above it all. View quote
Jasper Carrott
The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out. View quote
Jack Charlton
I think there's nothing better than laughing in life, so that's nice, to be thought of as someone who can make someone laugh. It's 'cause I think life is hard. You know, my dad was a really silly man. A great Irish silly man. And that's fine. (Joan Cusack)
I was inspired by Colin Farrell in the fact that he's Irish and has freckles but with black hair. I'm a bunch of different things, Irish, Polish, Native American, and French, but I wanted to tap into that Irish side and be freckle-y with black hair, so that's what I did. View quote
Joanna Noelle Levesque
We have, therefore, directed the Irish Army authorities to have field hospitals established in County Donegal adjacent to Derry and at other points along the Border where they may be necessary. View quote
Jack Lynch
There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul. View quote
John Oates
The Irish move to a very low corporation tax has generated very significant revenue growth, considerably in excess of Britain's, where a slower economy has been combined with a number of stealth taxes. View quote
John Redwood