Belfast Quotes

• I suspect that the only thing that will take Articles Two and Three out of the Irish Constitution is when the bombs begin to blow in Dublin in the way that they have been in Belfast and in London.

  Norman Tebbit

  Blow, Two, Three

  Sky television, July 19, 1993.

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• I certainly notice the vitality in Belfast, which wasn't there in the Seventies. There was a war going on then. Now there are cranes everywhere. There really is a sense of renewal and hope.

  Liam Neeson

  War, Vitality, Renewal

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• We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature.

  Peter Hain

  Justice, Community, Criminals

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• Belfast during the Troubles looked like a different world.

  Clive Owen

  Different, World, Trouble

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• I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.

  Van Morrison

  Clubs, Firsts, Maritime

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• When we went to Belfast we saw some beautiful countryside and coastlines.

  Sarah Sutton

  Beautiful, Saws, Coastline

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• I got a letter from 13-year-old Ryan from Belfast. Now, Ryan, if you're out in the crowd tonight, here's the answer to your question. No, as far as I know, an alien spacecraft did not crash in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. And, Ryan, if the United States Air Force did recover alien bodies, they didn't tell me about it, either, and I want to know.

  William J. Clinton

  Years, Air, Mexico

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• When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.

  Van Morrison

  Inspiration, Kids, Guy

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• I went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor.

  Simon Callow

  Queens, Actors, Nine

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• I think that we live in a remarkably networked world. The problem with that, of course, is that tensions can travel in nanoseconds across the Internet, and so the tensions between Shiites and Sunnis in Baghdad, or between Protestants and Catholics in Belfast - those show up in different parts of the world.

  Eboo Patel

  Thinking, Catholic, Baghdad

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We had a completely deniable exchange of papers - in the winter before the 1997 election - with [Tony] Blair, setting out what we thought were the realistic parameters for a solution: and we were getting reasonable responses back from him. That's what led to Blair's visit to Belfast on May 16, 1997 - two weeks after he became Prime Minister and his first official visit outside London.

  David Trimble

  Winter, Two, May

  Source: www.newsletter.co.uk

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• I was born into a Catholic family. I grew up in West Belfast. Faith was very important to us eight children and my mother and father. It was grounded in the Christian tradition of social involvement.

  Mairead Corrigan

  Christian, Mother, Children

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Hoodwink is a product of his environment. He grew up in Belfast, he was part of the UDA and he fought for what he believed in - or was brainwashed into believing - because of the people that surrounded him.

  Andy Serkis

  Believe, People, Environment

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• My mother was one of the most beautiful women, I have to say, of her generation. She was absolutely lovely. She was a very, extremely sensitive, Irish actress. She came from Belfast, Northern Ireland, and she came to London, and she was sort of discovered by several people.

  Angela Lansbury

  Beautiful, Mother, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Is it true or false that Belfast is north of London? That the galaxy is the shape of a fried egg? That Beethoven was a drunkard? That Wellington won the battle of Waterloo? There are various degrees and dimensions of success in making statements: the statements fit the facts always more or less loosely, in different ways on different occasions for different intents and purposes.

  J. L. Austin

  Truth, Eggs, Battle

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• After the allied victory of 1918, at the end of my father's war, the victors divided up the lands of their former enemies. In the space of just seventeen months, they created the borders of Northern Ireland, Yugoslavia and most of the Middle East. And I have spent my entire career — in Belfast and Sarajevo, in Beirut and Baghdad — watching the people within those borders burn.

  Robert Fisk

  Father, War, Land

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was leaving the Belfast court, where I had been called to answer a very flimsy charge, later dismissed. You're relatively safe in such areas in the Irish community, but to go to downtown Belfast for me is dangerous. My appearance in court had been well advertised by the police. I think it was too much of a coincidence that the people who shot me were just passing by.

  Gerry Adams

  Thinking, Passing By, People

  Source: business.highbeam.com

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• In my late teens, like many a devout Catholic boy, I considered the priesthood and even went as far as discussing the idea at a seminary in Belfast but hesitated. I decided to focus on physics at university, another way perhaps to contemplate the mysteries of reality.

  Stephen Curry

  Boys, Reality, Ideas

  Source: www.thefreethinktank.com

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