I grew up in a big, blended Irish Catholic family just…

I have differences of opinion within my own family, an Irish Catholic family. So, I do respect those that disagree.

— Gavin Newsom

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

— Elin Hilderbrand

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

— Jimmy Fallon

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

— Brian Dennehy

I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I…

— Dennis Lehane

And I'm a Catholic, from an Irish Catholic family, and we know plenty of stuff about guilt.

— Bob Gunton

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

— Robert Anton Wilson

It feels like everyday when you're outside in Los Angeles, you're supposed to go the beach or something.

— Kevon Looney

I grew up in a modest neighborhood just outside of Los Angeles. It was an industrial community of blue-collar, working people... some of the…

— Hilda Solis

To me, everything outside of Los Angeles is the 'south,' including places like San Diego. It's sort of like the saying, 'Everything is God.'…

— Buzz Osborne

Los Angeles has always been overlooked as far as jazz, and just high-level music in general. But, like, my dad's a musician, so I've…

— Kamasi Washington

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

— Geraldine Brooks

“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

I come from a long line of staunch Irish Catholics.

— Robert Vaughn