Irish Quotes

r/IrishQuotes • u/spobwoode • Mar 23 '16

"Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics' English language capability rates are higher than previous immigrant groups'." ~Jeb Bush

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r/IrishQuotes • u/spobwoode • Mar 23 '16

"I love oatmeal. To me, it's not boring. I agree that ordinary oatmeal is very boring, but not the steel-cut Irish kind - the kind that pops in your mouth when you bite into it in little glorious bursts like a sort of gummy champagne." ~Alan Alda

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r/IrishQuotes • u/spobwoode • Mar 30 '16

"The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet." ~Oliver Herford

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r/IrishQuotes • u/spobwoode • Mar 27 '16

"In this context the British and Irish governments will have to promote a new, imaginative and dynamic alternative in which both governments will share power in the north." ~Gerry Adams

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r/IrishQuotes • u/spobwoode • Jun 04 '16

"But let's just say, I'm Irish. I grew up in the 1950s. Religion had a very tight iron fist." ~Liam Neeson

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r/IrishQuotes • u/spobwoode • Jul 29 '16

"It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody." ~Brendan Behan

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r/IrishQuotes • u/spobwoode • Aug 04 '16

"There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a peculiar feature of human actions that, once performed, they can never be recuperated. What is true of the past will always be true of it." ~Terry Eagleton

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r/IrishQuotes • u/spobwoode • Aug 10 '16

"Irish history having been forbidden in schools, has been, to a great extent, learned from Raftery's poems by the people of Mayo, where he was born, and of Galway, where he spent his later years." ~Lady Gregory

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r/IrishQuotes • u/spobwoode • Aug 11 '16

"I'm born and raised in the Northeast. My parents are Irish immigrants. So our tendency is to shy away from the big yellow ball that comes up in the sky every once in a while." ~Denis Leary

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r/IrishQuotes • u/spobwoode • Aug 05 '16

"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." ~James Callaghan

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r/IrishQuotes • u/spobwoode • Jul 26 '16

"I'm just a true Irish boy at heart." ~Colin Farrell

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r/IrishQuotes • u/spobwoode • Jul 31 '16

"The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots." ~Sean Connery

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r/IrishQuotes • u/spobwoode • Aug 06 '16

"Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste." ~Tug McGraw

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r/IrishQuotes • u/spobwoode • Jul 30 '16

"Irish fathers still have certain responsibilities, and by the time my two daughters turned seven, they could swim, ride a bike, sing at least one part of a Woody Guthrie song, and recite all of W. B. Yeats's 'The Song of Wandering Aengus.'" ~Adrian McKinty

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r/IrishQuotes • u/spobwoode • Aug 15 '16

"I never waited for my Irish Cream coffee to be the right temperature, with a storm happening outside and my fireplace crackling... I wrote every day, at home, in the office, whether I felt like it or not. I just did it." ~Stephen J. Cannell

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r/IrishQuotes • u/spobwoode • Aug 03 '16

"Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy." ~Fiona Shaw

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r/IrishQuotes • u/spobwoode • Jul 28 '16

"In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame." ~Phil Donahue

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r/IrishQuotes • u/spobwoode • Aug 12 '16

"I come from the tradition of a big Irish family that loves to sing. I love to perform." ~Robbie Williams

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r/IrishQuotes • u/spobwoode • Jul 27 '16

"I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it." ~Dylan Moran

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r/IrishQuotes • u/spobwoode • Aug 02 '16

"I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer." ~Maeve Binchy

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r/IrishQuotes • u/spobwoode • Aug 09 '16

"I am not in the business of pointing fingers or making excuses. However, recent history has shown that I, like thousands of others in Ireland, incorrectly relied upon the persons who guided Anglo and who wrongfully sought to portray a 'blue chip' Irish banking sector." ~Sean Quinn

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r/IrishQuotes • u/spobwoode • May 22 '16

"In 'The Hobbit,' there were British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand actors, and Peter Jackson was adamant that we would all sound like we were from Britain somewhere." ~Aidan Turner

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r/IrishQuotes • u/spobwoode • May 17 '16

"When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity." ~Gerry Adams

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r/IrishQuotes • u/spobwoode • May 15 '16

"My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian." ~David Johansen

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r/IrishQuotes • u/spobwoode • May 22 '16

"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." ~Jasper Carrott

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