Gaelic Quotes

• Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung.

  Enya

  Thinking, Singing, Natural

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

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• Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.

  John McGahern

  Rain, Sky, Identity

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• There's a Celtic saying, "Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose."

  Conor McGregor

  Men, Mma, Noses

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• My first language is Gaelic.

  Enya

  Firsts, Language

  Interview with Rachel Corcoran, www.saga.co.uk. November 2, 2015.

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• I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music.

  Carter Burwell

  Scottish, Celtic

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• Beware the anger of a patient man.

  James Patterson

  Men, Patient

  James Patterson (2011). “Cross”, p.153, Hachette UK

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• God's help is nearer than the door.

  William Gurney Benham

  Doors, Helping, Irish Proverbs

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• The work praises the man.

  Charles L. Allen

  Motivational, Men, Praise

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• Tears and laughter, they are so much Gaelic to me.

  Samuel Beckett

  Laughter, Tears

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.261, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• My kids are Irish; I want them to grow up playing Gaelic football and learning Irish.

  Shane Filan

  Football, Growing Up, Kids

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• "Sassenach." He had called me that from the first; the Gaelic word for outlander, a stranger. An Englishman. First in jest, then in affection.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Firsts, Affection, Stranger

  "Dragonfly in Amber". Book by Diana Gabaldon, 1992.

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• My father could swear in Gaelic and English, by the way, ladies and gentlemen.

  Denis Leary

  Father, Gentleman, Way

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• Our language was even taken from us. The Irish Gaelic language was outlawed and the religion was outlawed. Hence the religion later being stronger; stronger to a negative point of view. But our venge was, I mean if you listen to Irish language, it's very complicated but it's very poetic.

  Gavin Friday

  Taken, Mean, Stronger

  Source: bigthink.com

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• My real name isn't Gavin. I was given Gavin Friday by my friends. I'm christened Fionan Hanvey, which is Gaelic and there is no actual English translation. I hated it as a kid but as I grew up I sort of went, "Now I like it."

  Gavin Friday

  Friday, Real, Kids

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I was a very shy child. I didn't like football. I didn't like the usual stuff that was shoved at. Sports were always down you and the Gaelic language, which I've actually disliked as a kid but as I grow up I quite like it.

  Gavin Friday

  Sports, Football, Children

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I have such a great thing I want to do with Lady Macbeth - make her one of the witches - and I have this whole thing where she's very light and dressed in pink and dancing Gaelic dances and throwing roses, but then when her husband's coming home, she does incantations and pulls her hair back, puts on a black leather trenchcoat. I mean, I could tear it up if somebody would give me the chance! But do you think someone would ever let me do Lady Macbeth? I doubt it. But I'm going to keep talking about it.

  Beth Grant

  Mean, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Dubh is do?" I was incredulous. It was no wonder I hadn't been able to find the stupid word. "Should I be calling pubs poos?" "Dubh is Gaelic, Ms. Lane. Pub is not.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Stupid, Calling, Able

  Karen Marie Moning (2006). “Darkfever: Fever Series”, p.38, Delacorte Press

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• James Joyce's English was based on the rhythm of the Irish language. He wrote things that shocked English language speakers but he was thinking in Gaelic. I've sung songs that if they were in English, would have been banned too. The psyche of the Irish language is completely different to the English-speaking world.

  Mairead Ni Mhaonaigh

  Song, Thinking, Different

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• In Manhasset you were either Yankees or Mets, rich or poor, sober or drunk...You were 'Gaelic' or 'garlic," as one schoolmate told me, and I couldn't admit, to him or myself, that I had both Irish and Italian ancestors.

  J. R. Moehringer

  Italian, Yankees, Rich Or Poor

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• I've always been quite an active person especially when I was younger. When I was in primary school, I used to play lots of sports. I was a sprinter and I did basketball and swimming and Gaelic football and things like that. So I always thought, I guess, that it would be fun to incorporate that much physical activity and work into a dramatic piece.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Basketball, Sports, Football

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I grew up watching my Dad, Uncles Ciaran Murray and Brendan Murray, and cousin, Aedin Murray, who were all national caliber Gaelic football players in Ireland. I try to watch as much Gaelic football as I can, it is my first love. I bleed Green, White, and Orange. Gaelic football players don’t get paid to play, you play to represent your county that is more important than earning money.

  Patrick Murray

  Football, Cousin, Uncles

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• There is an oath upon her," he said to Arch, and I realized dimly that he was still speaking in Gaelic, though I understood him clearly. "She may not kill, save it is for mercy or her life. It is myself who kills for her.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Arches, May, Mercy

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 5, 6, 7, and 8: The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1470, Delacorte Press

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• The Gaelic League is founded not upon hatred of England, but upon love of Ireland. Hatred is a negative passion; it is powerful - a very powerful destroyer; but it is useless for building up. Love, on the other hand, is like faith; it can move mountains, and faith, we have mountains to move.

  Douglas Hyde

  Powerful, Moving, Passion

  Douglas Hyde (1986). “Language, lore, and lyrics: essays and lectures”, Irish Academic Pr

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• Sometimes, however, the Gaelic blood asserts itself. The Frenchmen will then attack. But the French attacking spirit is like bottled lemonade. It lacks tenacity. The Englishmen, on the other hand, one notices that they are of Germanic blood. Sportsmen easily take to flying, and Englishmen see in flying nothing but a sport.

  Manfred von Richthofen

  Sports, Blood, Hands

  Manfred von Richthofen (2009). “The Red Baron”, p.128, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Although, of course, my definition of evil is not everybody else's. Evil is being involved in the glamour and charm of material existence, glamour in its old Gaelic sense meaning enchantment with the look of things, rather than the soul of things.

  Kenneth Anger

  Evil, Soul, Definitions

  "Kenneth Anger: Where The Bodies Are Buried" by Mick Brown, www.esquire.com. March 1, 2014.

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