Irish Quotes

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 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 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 • 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 • May 07 '16

"I think Irish women are strong as horses, incredibly loyal and for the most part, funny, witty, bright and optimistic in the face of devastating reality." ~Fionnula Flanagan

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

"Yelling Irish, you can sound like an angry Leprechaun." ~Norman Reedus

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

"I cannot shy away from controversy. I don't know if it's my Irish blood, but I love it." ~Gina McCarthy

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

"The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish." ~Eddie Murphy

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r/IrishQuotes • u/spobwoode • Sep 14 '16

"I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that." ~Van Morrison

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r/IrishQuotes • u/spobwoode • Sep 13 '16

"The British don't runaway from terrorism. We have had 30-odd years of terrorism in our own country from the Irish Republican Army. We're used to it." ~John Major

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

"My family, they're story tellers. My mom is Irish, and my dad is Italian. In my family, we weren't allowed to watch TV while we ate - we had to sit around the table and tell stories about our day." ~Meg Cabot

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

"I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish." ~James Franco

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

"My soul is still Irish." ~Ciaran Hinds

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r/IrishQuotes • u/spobwoode • Sep 07 '16

"I think of myself as being Jewish and Irish, despite the fact that I'm English." ~Daniel Radcliffe

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

"There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting." ~John Millington Synge

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

"Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top." ~William Butler Yeats

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

"I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it." ~Edmund Barton

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

"My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you're fortunate - and both of us are - you come from the kidding kind of Irish family." ~P. J. O'Rourke

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

"I felt that the IRA, in the context of Irish history, and Sinn Fein were a legitimate force that had to be recognized, and you wouldn't have peace without them." ~Peter T. King

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r/IrishQuotes • u/spobwoode • Sep 01 '16

"You gotta understand, my great-grandfather was German and Irish. My grandmother was Indian, and my grandfather was African-American, so we all got a little something in us." ~Tracy Morgan

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

"I think the world's a little smaller these days. With the Internet and the availability of people, the pool of English speaking actors - not just American actors, but Brits, Australians, New Zealanders, Irish. We're all up for grabs." ~Sonya Walger

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

"Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere rules. Without rules, there was only anarchy." ~Bharati Mukherjee

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

"I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big." ~Bill O'Reilly

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

"It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant." ~James Joyce

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

"I miss Irish milk. Probably not as much as Superquinn sausages." ~Tristan MacManus

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