“Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“It was like the violence of the world he’d grown up in had embedded itself in him, taken root, and could never… — S.E. Jakes Copy Share Image
I come from Chicago and am a child of Irish Catholic parents who were able to wield guilt like a Ginsu knife. — Brendan Hunt Copy Share Image
“As of 1641, the indigenous Irish Catholics owned an estimated three-fifths of the land of Ireland but, just 24 years later,” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Actual class struggles apart, one of the aesthetic ways you could prove that there was a class system in America was by… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“In the era of security clearances, to be an Irish Catholic became prima facie evidence of loyalty. Harvard men were to be… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
Worse than the ordinary, miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting. — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“My dad's filthy rich, and even though we're Irish Catholic I'm an only child. I've got more money than you do so… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary. — Bernadette Devlin Copy Share Image
When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
And I'm a Catholic, from an Irish Catholic family, and we know plenty of stuff about guilt. — Bob Gunton Copy Share Image
I have differences of opinion within my own family, an Irish Catholic family. So, I do respect those that disagree. — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame. — Phil Donahue Copy Share Image
The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of… — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Learn what not to expect. Irish catholic they get sh**** little rings. Irish women get crappy rings. Baptist get the worst because… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
