Gaelic Quotes
20 quotes by 17 authors
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Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung.
— Enya
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I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.
— Carter Burwell
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My first language is Gaelic.
— Enya
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Although, of course, my definition of evil is not everybody else's. Evil is being involved in the glamour and charm of material existence, glamour in…
— Kenneth Anger
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Tears and laughter, they are so much Gaelic to me.
— Samuel Beckett
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When I was a kid, if you didn't speak Irish, you really wanted to. And you played Gaelic games and you didn't pay any attention…
— Roddy Doyle
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Sometimes, however, the Gaelic blood asserts itself. The Frenchmen will then attack. But the French attacking spirit is like bottled lemonade. It lacks tenacity. The…
— Manfred von Richthofen
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The Gaelic League is founded not upon hatred of England, but upon love of Ireland. Hatred is a negative passion; it is powerful - a…
— Douglas Hyde
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My father could swear in Gaelic and English, by the way, ladies and gentlemen.
— Denis Leary
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Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead…
— John McGahern
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Dubh is do?" I was incredulous. It was no wonder I hadn't been able to find the stupid word. "Should I be calling pubs poos?"…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Sassenach." He had called me that from the first; the Gaelic word for outlander, a stranger. An Englishman. First in jest, then in affection.
— Diana Gabaldon
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There is an oath upon her," he said to Arch, and I realized dimly that he was still speaking in Gaelic, though I understood him…
— Diana Gabaldon
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The Gaelic language itself depends very much on ear and rhythm, and when those who are thinking in Gaelic speak in English, they get the…
— Lady Gregory
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When I was a senior in high school, I went to Ireland to study Irish Gaelic. And after one semester at Trinity College, I went…
— Rosemary Mahoney
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Maud Gonne was - excuse me, Maud Gonne was central to the Gaelic literature revival. She wrote plays, and she sang.
— Derrick Jensen
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My kids are Irish; I want them to grow up playing Gaelic football and learning Irish.
— Shane Filan
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My father was a creature of the archaic world, really. He would have been entirely at home in a Gaelic hill-fort. His side of the…
— Seamus Heaney
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I speak some French, Spanish, a little German and Gaelic.
— Terry Wogan
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It wasn't so long ago that it was not popular to speak Gaelic in Ireland because the areas that Gaelic is spoken in were much…
— Enya
Who Wrote These Gaelic Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 20 Gaelic Quotes as follows: