Family Quote by Thomas Sowell

My mom's family was 100 percent Irish, in the American way of being Irish, and then my dad was half Irish.

— Brendan Hunt

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

I'm tri-racial: African-American, Native American and Euro - that's the Scotch-Irish part.

— Alice Walker

Perhaps no American family-with the possible exception of the Adams family-has had a more vivid and powerful impact on the life of their times.…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“In 1782 J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, in Letters from an American Farmer wrote:            “Whence came all these people? They are…

— John Price

“Interestingly, some of the worst anti-Irish discrimination came from the Scotch-Irish, who wanted to make clear that they were a different group from the…

— Ryan Hackney

“As one observer noted, “In traveling across America, the Scots-Irish have consistently blown my mind as far and away the most persistent and unchanging…

— J.D. Vance

I always thought Grover Cleveland was from Cleveland.

— Eric Garcetti

“Though his classmates supposedly hailed form "all fifty states, Guam, and twenty-two foreign lands," as President Affenlight said in his convocation address, they all…

— Chad Harbach

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

My grandparents were all born in the U.S., but their parents came from Ireland.

— Michael Connelly

My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If…

— P. J. O'Rourke