Ireland Quotes · Page 8

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

— Angus Cloud

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

— Philip Sidney

Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong.

— John Bruton

Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

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

— Elizabeth Bowen

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

— Matthew Broderick

I love Ireland. I'll always be 100pc Irish. I get really excited when I go to Sligo; it's my home.

— Shane Filan

I'm delighted that I was born in Ulster rather than anywhere else in Ireland and I've certainly not lost my identity.

— Martin O'Neill

“The host is rushing 'twixt day and night, And where is there hope or deed as fair? Caoilte tossing his burning hair,…

— W.B. Yeats

One needs a comprehensive concept that decides just how much debt states like Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy can sustainably bear.

— Peter Bofinger

In the cycling world I am... okay, it sounds arrogant, but I am pretty high up. And I am a good athlete.…

— Sam Bennett

Fairies in Ireland are sometimes as big as we are, sometimes bigger, and sometimes, as I have been told, about three feet…

— William Butler Yeats

Art is for [the Irish] inseparable from artifice: of that, the theatre is the home. Possibly, it was England made me a…

— Elizabeth Bowen

We used to spend a lot of time as kids in Northern Ireland, on the border and in southern Ireland as well.

— Leo Sayer

The field was even greener than my boy's mind had pictured it. In later years, friends of ours visited Ireland and said…

— Duke Snider

I'll always be somebody who spends a lot of time in a lot of places; that's just always going to be the…

— Robert Sheehan

I couldn't make a living as a comic in Ireland and I was watching my friends from college getting good jobs, buying…

— Ardal O'Hanlon

I don't know why anybody would come to Ireland chasing a dream or even employment - that's an extraordinary thing for a…

— Neil Jordan

I always went to Ireland as a child. I remember trips to Dundalk, Wexford, Cork and Dublin. My gran was born in…

— Vinnie Jones

My family are very happy that I'm playing with Ireland. It's my dad's side, and he's really, really proud. He wants me…

— Declan Rice

I'm a Londoner, and I feel I can't live anywhere but London, but I feel more connected to Ireland as a country.…

— Roisin Conaty

The fierce pulsation of resurgent pride that disclaims servitude may one day cease to throb in the heart of Ireland - but…

— Thomas MacDonagh

We now have political chaos. We've got parties in Ireland saying they want to merge with Northern Ireland. You've got parties in…

— Tim Harford

“Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding 'like Princess Di') but the more thoughtful ones resent…

— Peter Hitchens

“He saw the black water and the declining sun and the swan dipping down, its white wings flashing, and slowing and slowing…

— Jamie O'Neill

“I still don't know why we didn't hire a car to get around Ireland." "When I was a kid, I always dreamed…

— Nina Bangs

Much attention has been focused on the MMR shot itself, whereas in all probability it is a combination of the three factors…

— Bernard Rimland

The whole Ireland was taken over by greed and materialism. It was extraordinary. The price of every house had skyrocketed. If you…

— Neil Jordan

If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of…

— James Connolly

“When they had finished they made me take notes of whatever conversation they had quoted, so that I might have the exact…

— W.B. Yeats

Your name is Sanchez, what are you doing playing for Northern Ireland?

— Lawrie Sanchez

Queen's University flies the flag for the arts in Northern Ireland and beyond.

— Liam Neeson

Lyricism was placed into my head in Ireland.

— Roisin Murphy

“...I live in Ireland every day in a drizzly dream of a Dublin walk...”

— John Geddes

Acting is something you didn't do in Ireland.

— James Nesbitt

The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.

— James Joyce

“Ireland is but an island off the coast of Cape Clear.”

— Chuck Kruger

I grew up in Ireland, so I do not have a lot of respect for most politicians.

— Jasmine Guinness