Irish Quotes
As she glanced down at the great distance to the ground below, she whispered in his ear, "You have obviously taken the heights of passion to an entirely new level, Killian O'Brien!
I'm not singing for the future I'm not dreaming of the past I'm not talking of the fist time I never think about the last
Cad é an mhaith dom eagla a bheith orm? Ní shaorfadh eagla duine ón mbás, dar ndóigh.
Some men never recover from education.
I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.
For you can't hear Irish tunes without knowing you're Irish, and wanting to pound that fact into the floor.
Some ghosts are so quiet you would hardly know they were there.
If I grew up in the simple-minded belief that women were as strong and intelligent as men, it was because I came from a society that had once believed it.
After a taste of a Scot, you'll never look elsewhere again."A brunette smiled seductively, "That's quite a boast.""I'm quite a man.
Imagine if we were all magical leprechauns, and every wish ever made on a four-leaf clover obliged us to help others obtain their wishes. Now imagine if people simply lived like this were true.
...but as his father used to say when he had a few drinks taken, you couldn't expect bloody miracles when you were talking about God.
An cinniúnt, is dócha: féach an féileacán úd thall atá ag foluain os cionn mo choinnle. Ní fada go loiscfear a sciatháin mhaiseacha: cá bhfios dúinne nach bhfuil a fhios sin aige, freisin?
So go love someone that wants to love you back. Whoever that lad is will be one lucky person.
One thing I've found... the road rarely rises up to meet you until you've begun walking.
More than loud acclaim, I loveBooks, silence, thought, my alcove.Pangur BánPoem by Anon Irish Monk, Translated by Seamus Heaney
Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam. A country without a language is a country without a soul.
Up and down' is Irish for anything at all--from crying into the dishes to full-blown psychosis. Though, now that I think about, a psychotic is more usually 'not quite herself'.
...that it is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.
Irish and English are so widely separated in their mode of expression that nothing like a literal rendering from one language to the other is possible.
She was walking into doors againA regular habit so it seems"From the Domestic
You're a Scott, " the Dark said, his lips peeled back in displeasure, as if just saying the word was revolting."And you're Irish. I'm so glad we got that settled.
Be sure to wear greenon March seventeen, or else Irish leprechauns pinch your bones clean!
I shall ne'er chase rainbows again, Knowing no pot o' gold awaits at the end. My Irish treasure is not there. For ye, my love, abide with me here.
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 lasts, that's worth working for, for fighting for...
Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained.
May you have the hindsight to know where you've been, The foresight to know where you are going, And the insight to knowwhen you have gone too far
If it’s only a kiss you want, I can kiss you with my clothes on.” Katie O'Reilly to Captain Lord Blackthorn in "Titanic Rhasody.
Kate giggled. “Excellent choice.”“I always make excellent choices.”“I don’t know about that.”“Of course I do. I picked ye, didn’t I?
Is he always like this?" she said irritably. "Flying by the seat of his pants?""Pretty much, yeah." Oliver grinned. "He's not a planner. But he happens to be the best improviser I've ever known.
Margaret looked at the ring on her finger. "Gran gave me this before we boarded the ship. It's the most special thing in the world to me. I'll never take it off, Hanna. No matter how hungry I am.
Atty’s eyes rested on Darby with all the subtlety of a dog watching his food bowl being filled!
What I was caught up in, I dimly understood, was the embodiment of history
All good things originate with the Creator God, he'd been taught, and the Song of Life was no exception.
Some people come into your life as blessings, and others come in your life as lessons. You are both to me.
I wish the Irish had never invented whiskey, " Pat said. Mr. O'Malley smirked, "The Irish didn't invent it. God did. It was his way of keepin' the Irish from takin' over the world.
He brightened. "Are you Irish then?" "My last name is McNally. I'm as Irish as Paddy's pig.
Author? Author? Did you write these legs?''Yes."'Well, I don't like dem. I don't like 'em at all at all. I could ha' writted better legs meself.
Banshee cries?”“You know, those creatures that cry really loud when someone from an important Irish family is about to die?
Scaoileadh Me.... 'Release me.' That was what he said. No doubt about it. It was in Gaelic, but that was what the voice said. Holy. Crap.
