Quotes About Irish

I was actually a single man until I was 41. Rather late. Irish marry late.

My mom was a single mother. She had six siblings in a big Irish family, all descended from shanty Irish folks who arrived after the Famine. They settled along the Cuyahoga River. It's the river that caught on fire. We're real good at picking real estate.

All of my dad's family, his brothers and sisters, my nana and grandad and all of the cousins emigrated to Australia within two years of each other. Irish families are close at the best of times, but when you move to the other side of the world, we were like a big posse over there.

There's still a great hesitancy in the Irish make up about expressing feelings... it'd be nice to say I miss you, I love you, come home.

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

I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.

I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good show.

I was raised Irish Catholic and went to Holy Names Academy, an all-girl's private Catholic school. I loved the nuns there and I love them to this day.

It was a saying about noble figures in old Irish poems—he would give his hawk to any man that asked for it, yet he loved his hawk better than men nowadays love their bride of tomorrow. He would mourn a dog with more grief than men nowadays mourn their fathers.

My grandparents were all born in the U.S., but their parents came from Ireland.

I love a lot of Irish folk music and Irish folk songs.

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

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

I think I'm going to keep my Irish accent forever now in any movie I make, because chicks dig it and that's all I care about now!

There is something restless and curious about the Irish. Like everybody else, we want to make money and make our way in the world but it's not the be all and end all. We also want to have fun, we want to make friends, make connections, share stories.

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

They won't break me because the desire for freedom, and the freedom of the Irish people, is in my heart.

I'm just a loud Irish guy.

Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.

That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?

There are a few Irish writers who have a very strong influence on me, especially on the 'Take Me to Church' EP.

The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.

I feel myself part of something. Not only being part of a community but part of an actual moment and a movement of Irish writing and art. That sense of being part of the whole thing is the deepest joy.

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