America Quote by Hamza Yusuf

My great-grandfather, Peter O'Hara, was born in Ireland, I believe, in County Clare. His father, my great-great-grandfather, had actually come to America a generation…

— Kelli O'Hara

Both sides of my family had come from Ireland in the 19th century for the same reason: There was nothing to eat over there.…

— Art Donovan

My father was the orphaned son of immigrants to the United States from Ireland. My father never knew his parents. His mother died -…

— George J. Mitchell

All of my dad's family, his brothers and sisters, my nana and grandad and all of the cousins emigrated to Australia within two years…

— Genevieve O'Reilly

My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look…

— Anonymous

“It had been two years since we left our home on the west coast of Ireland. Life was hard there, too; our da held…

— Christina Baker Kline

My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.

— Olivia Wilde

My father left Ireland because he did not want to muck horse manure for the rest of his life, and he wanted to come…

— Denis Leary

I think Irish people started to move to the United States - many things that were of consequence. And it was a tiny and…

— Werner Herzog

My grandfather John came from Cork. I have six degrees of separation in Ireland.

— Duff McKagan

I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and respectability was amnesia. Although…

— Tom Hayden

Apparently, my grandfather left from Cork to America without saying goodbye to his mother! The family in Longford is still not happy about that.

— Peggy Johnson