Ireland Quotes

In the vast majority of cases the secret society symbolism hearkens from two places - Ireland and Egypt.

The legend goes that St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland. I was thinking... that must be hard to put all the tiny seatbelts on all the snakes.

The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.

Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that.

In Northern Ireland, people said there would never be a solution. But once people begin to have the political will and force their governments to sit down, it can happen.

It is tradition in Ireland that you're given money for your first communion.

I grew up in Ireland, and the ocean was never more than an arm's length away. As lovely as the mountains are and as friendly as the people of Utah are, I feel a bit landlocked here.

Love is patient. Love is kind. It bears all things. Love never fails. Love is as strong as death.

Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse.

Ireland starts for me with the end of The Dead, which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind.

What's the use of being Irish if the world doesn't break your heart?

Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners.

I have a thing for red-haired Irish boys, as we know.

Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong.

Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.

The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled with barbarous terms.

The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.

If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.

Save the trees of Ireland for the future men of Ireland on the fair hills of Eire, O.

The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.

William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan, and Wilde, his nearest rivals, he was brought up in Ireland.

I said, in talking, that I felt more and more the time wasted that was not spent in Ireland.

Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.

Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.

I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.

I would not want to put him in charge of snake control in Ireland.

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.

I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over!

Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.

The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.

It... is the best opportunity we've had in the last 25 years to bring about a settlement in Northern Ireland, and I think we should leave no stone unturned to achieve that.

That's football, Mike, Northern Ireland have had several chances and haven't scored but England have had no chances and scored twice.

You know it is summer in Ireland when the rain gets warmer.

I sure love Ireland. The first trip I ever made was last year when I did this record in Dublin.

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.

Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.

At Leeds I've tried to concentrate on my club form, but you get caught up in all the World Cup fever once you come back to Ireland and see all the Irish boys again.

I'm home a lot. Because I live in Ireland, we can live under the celebrity radar. I might go missing for a whole year.

The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.

History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with it?

Going back to Ireland involves at least six to seven emotional breakdowns for me per day.

It’s just very homey in Ireland. It’s very comforting and comfortable. There’s lots of fireplaces with fires. It’s just really cozy.

Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.

I think there's a down-to-earthness with Midwesterners and with people from the Midlands - which is where my family is from - in Ireland.

Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.

The Irish aren't great singers, but they have great songs.

On the other hand, at some level the mass of unresolved issues in Northern Ireland does influence the fact that there are so many good writers in the place.

Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation.

Fairies in Ireland are sometimes as big as we are, sometimes bigger, and sometimes, as I have been told, about three feet high.

World is suddener than we fancy it.