Quotes of: Irish-catholic Keyword

I was raised Catholic until I was old enough to say no.

John Cusack

You should have seen me in my Catholic school girl skirt with my knees knocking together.

Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

Those Catholics, they really nab you when you're young. They sear you. They sear you; they do.

Douglas Coupland

Christmas, as a practicing Catholic child, was seen as a reward for lots and lots and lots of church.

Jenny Colgan

What makes a comedian has nothing to do with religion. Think of Red Skelton, Jimmy Durante, Jackie Gleason, who were all Catholics.

Buddy Hackett

I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

Frederik Pohl

I think there is a sense of last things in my work that probably comes from a Catholic childhood.

Don DeLillo

We never get over our fathers, and we’re not required to. (Irish Proverb)

Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son

Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory

Irish Fairy Tales

Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it.

Irish Fairy Tales

I have encountered on this long road an enthusiasm for an Irishness which will be built on recognising again those sources from which spring the best of our reason and curiosity.

Michael D. Higgins

I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.

P. L. Travers

Ballet Hispanico is far from Irish, and, though it has strong dancers, its Spanishness has always left me unconvinced.

Robert Gottlieb

I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.

Maeve Binchy

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.

Vivien Leigh

It was a chance encounter with a biotech entrepreneur from Ireland that got me started as an entrepreneur in India, because I partnered this Irish company in setting up India's first biotech company.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

I love Ireland. I'll always be 100pc Irish. I get really excited when I go to Sligo; it's my home.

Shane Filan

I felt that the IRA, in the context of Irish history, and Sinn Fein were a legitimate force that had to be recognized, and you wouldn't have peace without them.

Peter T. King

So many Irish actors overplay that modesty because they're afraid people will judge them and say, 'The state of yer man, he thinks he's great,' or whatever.

Jack Reynor

Before the Great Chicago Fire, no one took notice of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, two Irish immigrants who lived with their five children on the city's West Side.

Karen Abbott

The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way.

Stephen Rea