Ireland Quotes · Page 10

I spent a lot of time growing up in Ireland in Donegal.

— Matthew Broderick

Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland ...

— Elizabeth Bowen

I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.

— Lady Gregory

A lot of the time in Ireland we put people into boxes and that's it.

— Adrian Dunbar

Oh, all kinds of lunacy happens in Ireland, all kinds of lunacy.

— Anjelica Huston

Wolfhounds helped kill off the wolves in Ireland.

— Denis Leary

I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.

— Fiona Shaw

“Romantic Ireland's dead and gone It's with O' Leary in the grave (September 1913)”

— William Butler Yeats

Northern Ireland isn't actually part of Great Britain, but we still want it to be part of 'Sofa Watch.'

— Declan Donnelly

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

— Keir Starmer

Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland…

— Thomas Francis Meagher

I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to…

— Elizabeth I

We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all…

— Marianne Williamson

Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother.

— Boyle Roche

All the girls over there in Ireland are well versed in American country music. Jim Reeves and Patsy Cline are like king…

— John Prine

If the Kennedys had been barred from entering America after fleeing Ireland during the famine, my grandfather never would have been president.

— Jack Schlossberg

I'm not saying I do evil things. I'm just saying if a cop stops me when I'm speeding, sometimes - not all…

— Keith Barry

I remember once doing a gig in Ireland, and there was a woman jumping around and screaming, 'I don't know what this…

— Imelda May

In 1975, no State or Church guidelines existed in the Republic of Ireland to assist those responding to an allegation of abuse…

— Sean Brady

Most of the songs came from Europe and Africa and now they were coming back to us. Many of [Bob] Dylan's best…

— John Lennon

“They'd listen silenty, with grave faces: but once they'd turn to each other they'd smile cruelly. He couldn't have it both ways.…

— John McGahern

I did find New Zealand similar to Ireland. The people, obviously. I found that, ironically, although these two countries were very far…

— Saoirse Ronan

The English playwrights of the '50s and '60s didn't really keep writing or getting produced, while the Irish did. There's encouragement for…

— Garry Hynes

“I heard you went to Ireland...I haven't seen it in many years. Is it still green then, and beautiful? Wet as a…

— Diana Gabaldon

“...there was always hunger in Ireland. She was a country that liked to be hurt. The Irish heaped coals of fire upon…

— Colum McCann

“Capitalism has come, not only to serve Britain's purpose by keeping the people divided, but, by setting worker against worker, it has…

— Michael Collins

872, Ivar, King of the Northmen of all Ireland and Britain , ended his life." He had conquered Mercia and East Anglia.…

— Winston Churchill

My background is Protestant so I benefited from the great Bible teaching that was provided there... I did love the more culturally…

— Keith Getty

Membership in the European Community, now the European Union, has enabled Ireland to re-find its sense of participation - cultural, political, social…

— Mary Robinson

“Ready yourselves!' Mullone heard himself say, which was strange, he thought, for he knew his men were prepared. A great cry came…

— David Cook

Ireland, as distinct from her people, is nothing to me; and the man who is bubbling over with love and enthusiasm for…

— James Connolly

“Then the woman in the bed sat up and looked about her with wild eyes; and the oldest of the old men…

— W.B. Yeats

I spend most of my time in London but I come back to Ireland whenever I can.

— Rory Gallagher

I love playing in Ireland and I've had great support here, like I get everywhere.

— Jimmy White

To be rhymed to death as is said to be done in Ireland.

— Philip Sidney

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

— Seamus Heaney

I was gonna move to Ireland for a while. All my family lives out there.

— Angus Cloud

Catholicism is more than a religion, it is a political power. Therefore I'm led to believe there will be no peace in…

— Oliver Cromwell

I'll wear no convicts uniform nor meekly serve my time that Britain might brand Irelands fight 800 years of crime..

— Bobby Sands

I actually don't think Ireland has a summer. I never experienced a summer there. It was just so wet.

— Travis Fimmel