Ireland Quotes · Page 21

I loved my time growing up in Northern Ireland doing youth drama, that is where it all began for me.

— James Nesbitt

Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because…

— Gabriel Byrne

I was an avid reader as a child because we didn't have television in Ireland until the mid-'60s.

— Anjelica Huston

My grandfather did not travel across 4,000 miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this country overrun by immigrants. He did it…

— Stephen Colbert

I grew up in Northern Ireland, didn't have a lot of money and getting over to Glasgow to watch a game was…

— Kyle Lafferty

“Books of the sages of the ages reflect upon in stages; like honey their words on the tongue give due savour.” {Source:…

— Richard Mc Sweeney

Northern Ireland is the world’s best kept secret, both in the character of its people and its scenery.

— Liam Neeson

I am proud that Ireland is playing its part to drive an ambitious and comprehensive agreement at COP21.

— Enda Kenny

A personal highlight was probably when we got a No. 1 in the U.K. and when the album went to No. 1…

— Niall Horan

I'd be on stage in Ireland performing for thousands of people and just not believing in what I'm doing at all. And…

— Vic Mensa

We can be a very natural partner as a support base for Ireland to use Mexico to enter into the North American…

— Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal

DEINOTHERIUM, n. An extinct pachyderm that flourished when the Pterodactyl was in fashion. The latter was a native of Ireland, its name…

— Ambrose Bierce

I was brought up in the countryside in Ireland and would go bonkers if I couldn't escape the city. I like to…

— Mariella Frostrup

As a citizen of Ireland I have more sovereignty over our government. Because citizens now have more ways of holding the Irish…

— Mary Robinson

I'm a massive Greggs fan! I never actually knew about Greggs when I lived over in Ireland but the minute I came…

— Maura Higgins

It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that…

— Lady Gregory

It is nothing, to give one’s life for Ireland. I’m not the first and maybe I won’t be the last. What’s my…

— Kevin Barry

In Ireland, I have 50-something cousins. My dad is one of six or seven and it's my second home. I am so…

— Thomas Grennan

I know tolerably well what Ireland was, but have a very imperfect idea of what Ireland is.

— John Stuart Mill

I know most of the photographers in Ireland. And if I don't want my photograph taken, they will leave me alone.

— Saoirse Ronan

Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.

— Charles Stewart Parnell

It's up to me to find a way to bring out my best game when I put on the Ireland jersey.

— Matt Doherty

At Leeds I've tried to concentrate on my club form, but you get caught up in all the World Cup fever once…

— Robbie Keane

“I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the…

— Iris Murdoch

“We had found nothing, and had been lost several times already in one morning, so this was shaping up into a top…

— Pete McCarthy

Love is patient. Love is kind. It bears all things. Love never fails. Love is as strong as death.

— O.R. Melling

“Alainn, it is no herb that has made me so entirely insatiable, 'tis just being with you.”

— Leigh Ann Edwards

The EU is mired in deep structural crisis. Greece, Portugal and Ireland cannot survive inside the Euro.

— Nigel Farage

“Her eyes met his and he no longer thought of the unusual shade of blue as strange, but simply enchanting.”

— Leigh Ann Edwards

There are fewer and fewer Jews in Ireland, but we still have one of the most famous Jewish characters in literary history,…

— Colum McCann

[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

England and Ireland may flourish together. The world is large enough for both of us. Let it be our care not to…

— Edmund Burke

Only the political process offers the real prospect of a united Ireland at peace with itself.

— John McDonnell

Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that the Irish don't even acknowledge…

— Alan Parker

The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.

— Nora Roberts

That's football, Mike, Northern Ireland have had several chances and haven't scored but England have had no chances and scored twice.

— Trevor Brooking

Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets.

— St. Jerome

I don't think America has ever had a center the way London is the center of England or Dublin is the center…

— Richard Russo

The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad, For all their wars are merry, and all their songs…

— Anonymous

As a music man, the musical tradition in Ireland is incredible; I could listen to it for hours.

— Noah Reid