American values Quote by Maureen Dezell

“self-deprecatory, to make light of their own situation by”

— Tom Shroder

“One of my colleagues in the Senate, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, once made this simple but profound observation about us Irish: “To fail to understand…

— Joe Biden

“You were born here. You and your children will have American stories, and they’ll be better than any sorrowful Irish tales. At the end,…

— Susan Denning

“A real Irishman will give everything of himself--except that kernel of his soul which makes him a mystery to other peoples.”

— Jim Tully Beggars Abroad

“May you get all your wishes but one, So you always have something to strive for. Irish blessing”

— Janice Thompson

Supreme egotism and utter seriousness are necessary for the greatest accomplishment, and these the Irish find hard to sustain; at some point, the instinct…

— William V. Shannon

“Irish people have been leaving their homes in search of better lives for many, many years. We're very good at it.”

— Matthew Quick

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

— Emily Lawless

“Self-deprecation is a disease, as is pride; anger is a disease, as is envy. Anything that throws you off-balance, physically or mentally, is a…

— Om Swami

“In becoming an Irishman, Patrick wedded his world to theirs, his faith to their life…Patrick found a way of swimming down to the depths…

— Thomas Cahill

“We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.”

— Oscar Wilde

“We survive. We're Irish. We have the souls of poets. We love our misery, we delight in the beauty of strange places and dark…

— Eilis Flynn