Quotes of: Irish-people Keyword

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

I grew up in an Irish Catholic family, and I think they force you to watch every James Cagney movie.

Jimmy Fallon

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

Ah, I feel a sadness on me, Dane. That's how the Irish people say it. In their language, you can't say, "I sad," or "I happy". They understood what we English have long forgot. We're our sadness. We're not our happiness or our pain but our language h...

The Invisibles, Vol. 1: Say You Want a Revolution

Modern critics find much that is unlovely in the religion established by the Scottish reformers. It was Hebraic and Old Testament in its emphasis, stressing the thou-shalt-nots and the denunciation of sin. It was not a religion of kindness to one's f...

The Scotch-Irish: A Social History

White, is not a race, it is a color, European, is not a race, it is a place named after the goddess Europa. Caucasian, is not a race, it is a place and mountain range. Gentile, is not a race, it is a biblical name that was given to describe Aryans as...

Way of the Druid

Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That it fades out from kiss to kiss; For everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy, kind delight. O Never give th...

In the Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age

But then what is the alternative to trying to tell the truth about the Holocaust, the Famine, the Armenian genocide, the injustice of dispossession in the Americas and Australia? That everyone should be reduced to silence? To pretend that the Holocau...

Searching for Schindler: A Memoir

Jellon Lamb: Forgive me, sir, but I've been stuck here with no one but this sorry sack of Hibernian pig shit for conversation. Poor, poor Dan O'Reilly. Sit, sir. Drink with me. [Charlie cocks his gun and points it to Lamb] Charlie Burns: One more cra...

The Proposition