Irish catholic Quotes

I grew up Irish Catholic.

— Nicola Coughlan

I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.

— Pierce Brosnan

Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary.

— Bernadette Devlin

People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.

— Martin Short

I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious.

— Meghan O'Rourke

My mom's Jewish and my dad's Irish Catholic alcoholic, so I whine on the inside.

— Margaret Smith

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

— Edna O'Brien

Irish Catholicism is very much founded on the stone of fear and of punishment.

— Edna O'Brien

I come from a blue-collar, Irish Catholic, pro-Kennedy, pro-union family of Democrats.

— Steve Bannon

I was a huge fan of J. Courtney Sullivan's novel 'Maine,' and like that novel, 'Saint' is a family saga set in…

— Elin Hilderbrand

I was raised Irish Catholic and went to Holy Names Academy, an all-girl's private Catholic school. I loved the nuns there and…

— Kitty Kelley

“As of 1641, the indigenous Irish Catholics owned an estimated three-fifths of the land of Ireland but, just 24 years later,”

— Thomas Sowell

I come from Chicago and am a child of Irish Catholic parents who were able to wield guilt like a Ginsu knife.

— Brendan Hunt

Our communities have been deeply enhanced by immigration, be it of Irish Catholics across the constituency or of Muslims from Gujarat in…

— Jo Cox

I grew up in an Irish Catholic family, and I think they force you to watch every James Cagney movie.

— Jimmy Fallon

I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that ‘do what makes you happy’ thing in check.

— Edward Burns

I grew up with this idea that songwriters had a great job. My family was Irish Catholic, so if you became a…

— Michael McDonald

My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort…

— Geraldine Brooks

My Irish Catholic mother loved romantic movies, provided they ended with a kiss before the screen went dark. If things went any…

— Catherine Brady

Learn what not to expect. Irish catholic they get sh**** little rings. Irish women get crappy rings. Baptist get the worst because…

— Joan Rivers

When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the…

— Frank McCourt

I'm not sure I would make a direct connection between having press attention as a young person and being interested in the…

— Rory Kennedy

Protestants attacked Catholics during the 1844 Nativist riots in Philadelphia. Guess what that was about? Anti-immigrant sentiment. Back then, it was the…

— Anthea Butler

I would say that Catholics came in and competed with the Protestant work ethic. That is one thing. And they did assimilate…

— Steve King

The vice and drunkenness among the lowering laboring classes is growing to frightful excess, and the multitudes of low Irish Catholics ……

— John Pintard

“Actual class struggles apart, one of the aesthetic ways you could prove that there was a class system in America was by…

— Christopher Hitchens

My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn. But it was more for me - it was that women of…

— Alice McDermott

I was born into a working class Irish Catholic family at the brutal bottom of the Great Depression. I suppose this early…

— Robert Anton Wilson

“When it comes to spiritual dis-ease there is probably no issue more powerful than that of guilt. People often joke about guilt…

— Kliewer

“Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to…

— Mark Twain

“When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the…

— Frank McCourt

I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics.

— Robert Vaughn

I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA.

— Brian Dennehy

I grew up Irish Catholic with a bunch of kids at Catholic school.

— Brigid Brannagh

I'm really fortunate. I grew up in a wonderful household with great Irish Catholic parents.

— Tim Kaine

I grew up in a big, blended Irish Catholic family just outside of Los Angeles.

— Peggy Johnson

I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel.

— John Lydon

I was pretty Irish Catholic Jersey, the middle of the line.

— Ryan McGinley

I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big.

— Bill O'Reilly

I used to be Irish Catholic. Now I'm an American - you know, you grow.

— George Carlin