Blood Quote by Thomas Davis Download Open image “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish Nation.” — Thomas Davis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blood Nations Willingness
To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother. It's the only thing that… — Alexandra Ripley Copy Share Image
My parents are Irish, my grandparents are Irish, my great-grandparents are Irish. I was born in England; my blood is Irish. — Brian McDermott Copy Share Image
Roughly 1 in 6 Americans have Irish blood. I'd say it's probably safe to assume that the average Irish-American who only comes out on… — Scott McClellan Copy Share Image
I cannot shy away from controversy. I don't know if it's my Irish blood, but I love it. — Gina McCarthy Copy Share Image
I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins,… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and… — Conor Cruise O'Brien Copy Share Image
Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me. — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
Nationality is a very curious thing. The blood is Scots and the temperament is Scots, but I am, in fact, 100% American. — Alexander Mackendrick Copy Share Image
The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times. — Roddy Doyle Copy Share Image
I'm hugely proud of being Irish. And I don't even know what that means. I just know that it's true. — Domhnall Gleeson Copy Share Image
“It is an ancient land, honoured in the archives of civilisation. Every great European race has sent its stream to the river of the… — Thomas Davis Copy Share Image
They fought as they revelled, fast, fiery, and true, And, though victors, they left on the field not a few; And they who survived… — Thomas Davis Copy Share Image
As well might you leave the fairies to plough your land or the idle winds to sow it, as sit down and wait for… — Thomas Davis Copy Share Image
Educate, that you might be free. We are most anxious to get the quiet, strong minded people who are scattered throughout the country to… — Thomas Davis Copy Share Image
There are three things without which there is no country--common language, common judicature, and co-tillage land--for without these a country cannot support itself in… — Thomas Davis Copy Share Image
Viva la the New Brigade! Viva la the Old One, too! Viva la, the Rose shall fade, And the Shamrock shine for ever new! — Thomas Davis Copy Share Image
A people without a language of its own is only half a nation. A nation should guard its language more than its territories, 'tis… — Thomas Davis Copy Share Image
Far in foreign fields from Dunkirk to Belgrade Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade. — Thomas Davis Copy Share Image
They're trying to make fuel cells a reality. They want to bring the hydrogen economy to the United States. — Thomas Davis Copy Share Image
Come in the evening, or coming in the morning/Come when you're looked for, or come without warning/Kisses and welcomes you'll find here before you/And… — Thomas Davis Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I have no intention of retiring. Even my blood sugar is better when I'm working. — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
What about you three, where are you going?" Even before Halt answered, Will knew what he was going to say. But that didn't make… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor age so eat up my invention, Nor fortune made such havoc of my… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“...I wore his blood for clothing, on my legs and thighs and hands: a dry, stiff, brown garment with no warmth in it.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
T]he church is not a place. It's not a building. It's not a preaching point. It's not a spiritual service provider. It's a people… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
I don't think you should ever say, 'This is the last time'. Music isn't like that. You'll be sitting there not wishing to get… — Roger Daltrey Copy Share Image
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image