Family Quote by P. J. O'Rourke

He [Bill Clinton] likes to hearken back to his kind of Irish roots, so I think he'd love to be called First Laddy.

— Chelsea Clinton

Simi? What was it you told me once about families? We have three kinds of family. Those we are born to, those who are…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“The people of Baileyville were descended from Celts, from Scots and Irish families, who could hold on to resentment until it was dried out…

— Jojo Moyes

I grew up in a world that was clannish - old Tasmanian-Irish families with big extended families.

— Richard Flanagan

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

I'm from an Irish family and, even though I grew up in 80s London, I spent a lot of my childhood in southwest Ireland.

— Roisin Conaty

My mother came from an Irish family of 11 kids and, of course, had a sister who was a nun, so I spent time…

— Ellen Pompeo

My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.

— Kate Walsh

My mom was a single mother. She had six siblings in a big Irish family, all descended from shanty Irish folks who arrived after…

— Rory O'Malley

“Banshee cries?” “You know, those creatures that cry really loud when someone from an important Irish family is about to die?”

— Patricia Morais

I'm from a small Irish family of 10, so there always was music in the house. Growing up, my older sisters had things like…

— Colm Wilkinson

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part…

— Vivien Leigh