Ireland Quotes · Page 5

I grew up in a little village in the west of Ireland.

— Philip Treacy

My grandfather John came from Cork. I have six degrees of separation in Ireland.

— Duff McKagan

I couldn't even get an audition for network TV at home in Ireland.

— Jack Reynor

Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.

— Samuel Beckett

When I was a kid, I would sometimes go to Ireland with our family.

— Matthew Broderick

I'm enjoying it with Ireland, and I won't be pressured into playing for England.

— Jack Grealish

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever.

— Sigmund Freud

I definitely want to keep working in Ireland, and without being too worthy about it, if it's possible to bring work into…

— Chris O'Dowd

It's just very homey in Ireland. It's very comforting and comfortable. There's lots of fireplaces with fires. It's just really cozy.

— Amy Adams

I grew up my whole life in Ireland and obviously sound very, very Irish. I feel like it's just one of those…

— Saoirse Ronan

The Irish have a flair for wringing from death the last drop of emotion and they do not quite understand those who…

— Dervla Murphy

The British Government has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland, and never can have any right in Ireland.

— James Connolly

The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.

— Michael Fassbender

It's a complicated relationship with the place one grows up in, particularly if it's Northern Ireland.

— James Nesbitt

Unlike London or other big cities, there's a great tolerance for motorbikes in Ireland. Culturally, it's quite different.

— Charley Boorman

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

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

I must say that though other days may not be so bright, as we look toward the future, that the brightest days…

— John F. Kennedy

Clericalism has rendered some of Ireland's brightest, most privileged and powerful men either unwilling or unable to address the horrors cited in…

— Enda Kenny

If you grow up in Ireland and read books then you really are obliged to attempt your own some time. It is…

— Anne Enright

I love L.A. I mean, in Ireland it just rains all the time, it's crap weather, so it's nice to go to…

— Jack Reynor

Growing up in Ireland, there never seemed to be the notion that children should be seen and not heard. We all looked…

— Maeve Binchy

“God and religion before every thing!' Dante cried. 'God and religion before the world.' Mr Casey raised his clenched fist and brought…

— James Joyce

“In prehistoric times, early man was bowled over by natural events: rain, thunder, lightning, the violent shaking and moving of the ground,…

— Signe Pike

One of the most terrible things about the English education System in Ireland is its ruthlessness...it is cold and mechanical, like the…

— Patrick Pearse

Sometimes I have the strangest feeling about you. Especially when you are near me as you are now. It feels as though…

— Charlotte Bronte

British rule depends upon repression and collaboration and the Irish people should recognise that those who collaborate with Britain in exchange for…

— Martin McGuinness

“The matter on which I judge people is their willingness, or ability, to handle contradiction. Thus Paine was better than Burke when…

— Christopher Hitchens

“There had been a time, until 1422, when a number of both Gaelic and Anglo-Irish students attended Oxford and Cambridge in England.…

— Emily Hahn

My grandfather is from Ireland. His name is Florence McCarthy. He moved to New York in 1920. They used to beat him…

— Greg Fitzsimmons

I feel very tied to Ireland and the U.K. and that side of the world.

— Jamie Dornan

Ireland has always been 'having a moment,' considering the size of the country.

— CMAT

“Food shouldn’t be that shade of green, lass.” – Faolán MacIntyre”

— Shannon MacLeod

There were no wrestling schools in Ireland. It was completely unheard of.

— Becky Lynch

“Surely there’s no need to abandon one’s reason simply because one is in Ireland.”

— J.G. Farrell

Unification is less important than the fact Ireland is now conflict-free.

— James Nesbitt

You know it is summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer.

— Hal Roach

In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs.

— Anonymous