Irish Quotes · Page 26

I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.

— Alice Walker

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

— John Stuart Mill

I'm black and Cuban, Australian and Irish, and like most people in America, I'm someone whose roots come from somewhere else. I'm…

— Soledad O'Brien

“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

I'm just an old Irish guy who believes if you have children, you need to be there to raise them.

— Eddie Rabbitt

My name is CMAT and I'm literally just a young one from Dunboyne/Dublin, depending who you ask.

— CMAT

I still identify as Irish. But I'm a Londoner too. It really is a great place to grow up.

— Roisin Conaty

“Overheard at O'Banion's Beer Emporium: "Pardon me, darlin', but I'm writin' a telephone book. C'n I have yer number?”

— Henry D. Spalding

I remember vividly as a 15-year-old, in 1964, seeing Derry play Glentoran in the Irish Cup Final at Windsor Park in Belfast.…

— Martin McGuinness

One of the problems that comes up time and time again seems to be this notion of being 'pure' Irish. If you…

— Ian McElhinney

My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York,…

— James Cagney

When I was growing up, I despised Irishness. I felt our music, our television and our books were just poor imitations of…

— Marian Keyes

“Now, Benny was no eejit. He wasn't expecting the Tunisian nationals to be Irish. What he did expect was darkish people with…

— Eoin Colfer

I'm just a true Irish boy at heart. I'm just myself, I stick by my guns and I treat people the way…

— Colin Farrell

I will be a President for all the people, whether they voted for me or not, whether they are young or old…

— Michael D. Higgins

“The Irish 'n Polacks always get along- didn't ya ever notice? Irish 'n Polacks live on p'tatoes 'n got it in for…

— Nelson Algren

I grew up mostly with classical, big band, and a lot of Irish music - I really didn't start listening to rock…

— Moira Kelly

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I…

— George Bernard Shaw

I've always been fond of my heritage, particularly my Irish heritage. But I'm also from all over the world.

— Eugene Simon

The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of…

— Liam Neeson

Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed…

— Lydia M. Child

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

— Anonymous

When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.

— Edna O'Brien

The Spanish and Cuban people have the same kind of wakes the Irish do. They go on for two or three days…

— Desi Arnaz

Poets, I think, are born. You can't teach it. It's genetic - the circumstances of how you were raised... and there's probably…

— Rodney Crowell

Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of…

— Terry Eagleton

“There's no sense to being Irish unless you know the world's going to break your heart.”

— Thomas Adcock

I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for my Mum. I know I've got Irish blood because I wake up everyday with…

— Noel Gallagher

I used to make fun of people who talked about going home and all that. I hadn't really thought about it at…

— Jane O'Meara Sanders

I am a proud Englishman, having been born and raised in London. However, I am just as proud of my family's Irish…

— Declan Rice

There are a few Irish writers who have a very strong influence on me, especially on the 'Take Me to Church' EP.

— Hozier

“Ireland is probably named the “Emerald Isle” because there are lots of precious stones found there, such as sapphires and rubies.”

— Jarod Kintz

For me, no one aspect of the Brexit debate displays so markedly the monomania of many Brexiteers as does the Irish question.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

The part of Limerick we lived in is Georgian, you know, those Georgian houses. You see them in pictures of Dublin.

— Frank McCourt

“Irish heroes, for one reason or another, have come off, it must be owned, but poorly before the bar of history.”

— Emily Lawless

I think I'm going to keep my Irish accent forever now in any movie I make, because chicks dig it and that's…

— Chris O'Dowd

I'm hugely proud of being Irish. And I don't even know what that means. I just know that it's true.

— Domhnall Gleeson

“Do you know what Ireland is?' asked Stephen with cold violence. 'Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.”

— James Joyce

'Ulysses' is the greatest anti-racist text in the English language, and it challenges right from the beginning the vicious racism which lies…

— Tom Paulin

“You were so intent on what your purpose would be. I remember it nearly word for word." "Recite it for me then,…

— Leigh Ann Edwards