Quotes of: Irish Keyword

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

I started hitching about the country when I was 16 or 17 years old. I found the music that was played around the country - Irish music - had a particular resonance.

Brendan Gleeson

My feet always danced to Irish traditional music, but I was very glad to get out of the North of Ireland in the mid-Seventies when it was really closed and tight and relentlessly unforgiving.

Ciaran Hinds

I must admit, even though I'm the product of two Jewish parents, I think the Irish temper got in there somewhere, so I'm going to check Mom's genealogy.

Harvey Weinstein

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