Quotes of: Irish-catholic Keyword

I grew up in a world that was clannish - old Tasmanian-Irish families with big extended families.

Richard Flanagan

I'm not Irish. Just because I have red hair doesn't mean I'm a lucky charm, you know?

Rebecca Mader

I was freelancing for years in Cork and around. I also wrote freelance pieces for 'The Irish Times.'

Kevin Barry

I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.

Kate Flannery

I have three older brothers. I'm Irish. I'm feisty.

Martha McSally

When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.

Gerry Adams

My family was very encouraging, and both of my grandparents were both beautiful singers. My grandmother was a coloratura soprano, and my grandfather was an Irish tenor in a barbershop quartet.

Clare Bowen

I loved Jack Ford. I got him in his later days, and he was a total tyrant and a total autocrat and an Irish drunk. But I had a great time.

Richard Widmark

Irish is the prominent nationality in the family, but beyond that, I really don't know. I see a lot of artistic or creative influence coming through on my mother's side.

William Wiley

My wife's a loving, funny, Irish-spirited person, and I'm still surprised at some of the things she says. She makes me laugh every day.

Gary Sinise

I cannot shy away from controversy. I don't know if it's my Irish blood, but I love it.

Gina McCarthy

I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identity.

Gabriel Byrne

The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.

Harold Nicolson

I own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything.

Dan Savage

It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say.

Henry Fonda

There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul.

John Oates

I've always been fascinated with Ireland, especially Northern Ireland, having lived in London in the '80s when there was an Irish republican bombing campaign there.

John Gordon Sinclair

I worked the drive-through at McDonald's and tried out different accents - Italian, Russian, Irish.

James Franco

Edward R. Murrow: Milo Radulovich. Fred Friendly: Italian? Edward R. Murrow: Irish.

Good Night, and Good Luck.

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

William Butler Yeats

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

Oscar Wilde