Black Quote by Mariah Carey

My father was a typical Irish father. He was a nice, hard working, driven guy. His politics were very conservative and I was just…

— Ardal O'Hanlon

I was the adoring son of a Welsh-Irish father, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, a Catholic Knight of Columbus who was a blue-collar, trade union organizer…

— Bob Gunton

When I get a very generous introduction like that I explain that I'm emotionally moved, but on the other hand I'm Irish and the…

— Barry McCaffrey

My mother was Irish; she had this great sense of humor, and both my parents loved films. There was a very vibrant discourse about…

— Martin Donovan

My family on my mother's side is Irish.

— Sarah Lancashire

My mother - the Irish side of the family - was very musical. My mother was a singer; there was music around the house…

— Len Cariou

My grandmother I admired even more [than mother]. She was an Irish lady and a very kind-hearted person. She had a lot of talent,…

— Edmund Hillary

My mother was Irish and she was superstitious, if you'll forgive the tautology.

— Rosalind Russell

Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

My father saw two black men lynched on his street in Cartersville, as a child. And I think seeing two black businessmen - not…

— Toni Morrison

My father was pretty independent. He was - he was arrested once in Nashville when he was on one of his sales trips because…

— Nat Hentoff

That is another theme in the book [Dreams from My Father]. How do we exercise more empathy in our public discourse? How do we…

— Barack Obama

Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though…

— Rosemary Mahoney

Irish research will contribute to global progress and have the potential to help all countries realise the potential of their land sectors in addressing…

— Enda Kenny

William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for 'The New Yorker' called Maeve Brennan,…

— Alice Munro