Gaelic Quotes

20 quotes by 17 authors

Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung. — Enya
I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music. — Carter Burwell
My first language is Gaelic. — Enya
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
Tears and laughter, they are so much Gaelic to me. — Samuel Beckett
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
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
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
My father could swear in Gaelic and English, by the way, ladies and gentlemen. — Denis Leary
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
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
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
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
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
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
Maud Gonne was - excuse me, Maud Gonne was central to the Gaelic literature revival. She wrote plays, and she sang. — Derrick Jensen
My kids are Irish; I want them to grow up playing Gaelic football and learning Irish. — Shane Filan
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
I speak some French, Spanish, a little German and Gaelic. — Terry Wogan
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

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