Quotes of: Irish-catholic Keyword

There has been no single influence which has done more to prevent man from finding God and rebuilding his character, has done more to lower the moral tone of society than the denial of personal guilt. This repudiation of man’s personal responsibili...

Peace of Soul: Timeless Wisdom on Finding Serenity and Joy by the Century's Most Acclaimed Catholic Bishop

In 1231, Pope Gregory ordered the Dominicans to take charge of papal courts and decisions and so prevent mob rule and guarantee that the accused received a fair trial and the right of defence. This was the foundation of the Inquisition, and it was a ...

Why Catholics are Right

A contemporary Catholic opponent of Martin Luther complained, "Even tailors and shoe-makers – even women and ignorant persons, who could read but little – studied it (the German Bible) with the greatest avidity as the fountain of truth. Some comm...

You Are What You Speak: Grammar Grouches, Language Laws, and the Politics of Identity

Martin Luther called the church building the “Mundhaus” (lit. “mouth house” or "speech house”) because he believed that the Graeco-Roman “pagan lecture” of the sophist entertainers who took over the Catholic church should be the focus o...

Gary Patton

The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times.

Roddy Doyle

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.

Seamus Heaney

I'm actually more German than Scottish. I'm half-Japanese, 25 percent German, 12 percent Scottish, and 12 percent Irish.

Kimiko Glenn

I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.

Kevin Kline

In this context the British and Irish governments will have to promote a new, imaginative and dynamic alternative in which both governments will share power in the north.

Gerry Adams

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

William Howard Taft

Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history?

Goldwin Smith

My dad's from Zimbabwe, and my mom is Danish, Irish, and Norwegian, so I have influences from a lot of different places.

Tinashe

I feel Irish-Americans are the forgotten minority group. Nobody else is making films about them.

Edward Burns

I'm 100 percent Irish by birth, grew up Italian, and yet I constantly get cast as playing Jewish.

Heather Matarazzo

When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school.

Deepak Chopra

The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.

Norman Mailer

It's so tough to get movies made in Ireland anymore. A whole generation of Irish filmmakers doesn't have the resources to get a movie made.

Ciaran Hinds

Well, I did go to Irish dancing lessons as a kid, but I was slapped and never went again.

Andrea Corr

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

Alice Walker

I was a fervent Catholic, and I belonged to the national organizations, even becoming one of the national leaders, until the age of 21, 22.

Umberto Eco

We are all born like Catholics . . . in limbo, without religion.

Life of Pi