Quotes of: Northern-california Keyword

The reality of life in Northern Ireland is that if you were Protestant, you learned British history, and if you were Catholic, you learned Irish history in school.

James Nesbitt

Barney was interested in bringing professional boxing back to Northern Ireland in a big way.

Barry McGuigan

I think a lot of us who grew up in Northern Ireland weren't politicised enough, frankly.

James Nesbitt

C'est pas assez que tous tu dis c'est de la merde, François? Tu veux coucher dans la merde, aussi?

A Northern Light

I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world.

Colum McCann

You can't argue with the dead, no matter what you say, they always have the last word.

A Northern Light

I think your vision gets better as you get older.

A Northern Light

My grandfather was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who lived in Northern Ireland and apparently when he sang in the synagogue he made everyone cry.

Jessie Ware

It's an extraordinary thing, this tiny little province of Northern Ireland, where carnage happened. And I was part of it. I grew up in it.

Liam Neeson

My dad was a keen actor when he was young; my auntie is heavily involved in amateur dramatics back in Northern Ireland, and my great aunt was a woman called Greer Garson.

Jamie Dornan

I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987.

Paul Muldoon

You know, the pessimism which exists now in the Middle East existed in Northern Ireland, but we stayed at it.

George J. Mitchell

I was one of the many kids in Northern Ireland who grew up in the countryside and had an idyllic childhood well away from the Troubles.

James Nesbitt

When people are faced with a choice between the Northern Ireland they have got and the perfect Northern Ireland, they complain. But in the real world that isn't the choice.

John Reid

I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people.

A Northern Light

I could almost hear the characters inside, murmuring and jostling, impatient for me to open the cover and let them out.

A Northern Light

A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away for safekeeping.

A Northern Light

Really, I still just think of myself as a Northerner, ultimately. It's in my DNA. I'll always have those Northern qualities. We can be mischievous. We can be bold.

Lena Headey

My father was from Northern Ireland, and coming from somewhere like that, your faith defines you. That's something we don't really understand outside Northern Ireland, but because of my parents and grandparents, I've experienced it.

Anna Maxwell Martin

But the Constitution was made not only for southern and northern states, but for states neither northern nor southern, namely, the western states, their coming in being foreseen and provided for.

William H. Seward

That feeds anger, and I mean when we went and at last thank heavens got towards peace in Northern Ireland we went for justice within Northern Ireland as well as using security well, as well as a political settlement, but surely that is the lesson.

Clare Short