Ireland Quotes - Page 23

• Ireland need fresh impotence.

  Phil Babb

  Football, Needs, Impotence

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• I said, in talking, that I felt more and more the time wasted that was not spent in Ireland.

  Lady Gregory

  Wasted Time, Feels

  "Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography".

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• 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

  Littles, Tiny, Grew Up

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• I don't know why anybody would come to Ireland chasing a dream or even employment - that's an extraordinary thing for a place where traditionally one was unemployed. For 10 years, people were coming from all over the world looking for employment here, kind of an extraordinary phenomenon. That's stopped now.

  Neil Jordan

  Dream, People, World

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Saint George killed the last dragon, and he was called a hero for it. I've never seen a dragon, and I wish he would have left at least one. Saint Patrick made a name for himself by running the snakes out of Ireland, leaving the place vulnerable to rodent infestation. This business of making saints out of men who exterminate their fellow creatures has got to stop. All I'm saying is, it's starting to get a little lonely up here at the top of the food chain.

  A. Whitney Brown

  Running, Lonely, Hero

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• My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I don't know what it's like to yearn for the big city from a small town.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Dad, Cities, London

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• Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Renewal, Stills

  "The enigma of Day-Lewis". Interview with Peter Stanford, www.theguardian.com. January 13, 2008.

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• I do identify with St. Patrick, not just in name. He drove the snakes out of Ireland. I intend to drive the snakes out of the State House

  Deval Patrick

  Snakes, Names, House

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• Why are Americans so fascinated by Ireland?" Keith asked... "you all think you're Irish. What's the appeal? Do you like the accent more? Is it all the magical rocks? Oh, look, a lep­rechaun.

  Maureen Johnson

  Thinking, Rocks, Keith

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• World is suddener than we fancy it.

  Louis MacNeice

  World, Fancy

  Louis MacNeice (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.51, Faber & Faber

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• The Chinese describe themselves as political refugees. Many base that claim on China's strict population laws, which allow them to have only one child. But if we accept them as bona fide political refugees for that reason, doesn't it follow that people living in countries where abortion is illegal (such as Ireland and Poland) should also receive political asylum? After all, their country's policy is forcing them to give birth to unwanted children.

  Ed Koch

  Country, Children, Law

  Ed Koch (1994). “Ed Koch on Everything: Movies, Politics, Personalities, Food and Other Stuff”, Birch Lane Press

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• Those who came to the United States didn't realize they were white until they got here. They were told they were white. They had to learn they were white. An Irish peasant coming from British imperial abuse in Ireland during the potato famine in the 1840s, arrives in the United States. You ask him or her what they are. They say, "I am Irish." No, you're white. "What do you mean, I am white?" And they point me out. "Oh, I see what you mean. This is a strange land."

  Cornel West

  Mean, Land, White

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• The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.

  Michael Fassbender

  Art, Alive, Influence

  "Fassbender on Fire" by Pamela McClintoc, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 17, 2012.

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• In Ireland there’s no such thing as bad weather ~~~ only the wrong clothes. (In the Company of Others)

  Jan Karon

  Weather, Clothes, Company

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• The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

  George Bernard Shaw

  Heart, Imagination, Empathy

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• THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, falling She knew not where, Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship, Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing Heroically lost, heroically found. No matter what disaster occurred She stood in desperate music wound, Wound, wound, and she made in her triumph Where the bales and the baskets lay No common intelligible sound But sang, 'O sea-starved, hungry sea

  William Butler Yeats

  Beautiful, Girl, Fall

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.5, Hayes Barton Press

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• That's football, Mike, Northern Ireland have had several chances and haven't scored but England have had no chances and scored twice.

  Trevor Brooking

  Football, England, Chance

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• Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country.

  Flann O'Brien

  Country, Moderation, Difficult

  Flann O’Brien (2016). “Best of Myles (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)”, p.24, HarperCollins UK

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• On that same tour we ran into a band at Aylesbury Friars, a biggish venue in Oxfordshire, England. They were a four-piece from Ireland called U2. They seemed like nice fellows and they sounded pretty good, but we didn’t keep in touch. They’re probably taxi drivers and accountants by now.

  Craig Ferguson

  Nice, Band, Pieces

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• The master says it's a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it's a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there's anyone in the world who would like us to live. My brothers are dead and my sister is dead and I wonder if they died for Ireland or for the Faith. Dad says they were too young to die for anything. Mam says it was disease and starvation and him never having a job. Dad says, Och, Angela, puts on his cap, and goes for a long walk.

  Frank McCourt

  Brother, Jobs, Dad

  "Sorry for Your Troubles" by Frank McCourt, www.newyorker.com. June 10, 1996.

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• Oh Ireland my first and only love Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove!

  James Joyce

  Hands, Gloves, Firsts

  James Joyce (2016). “The Complete Works of James Joyce: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Essays & Letters: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Finnegan’s Wake, Dubliners, The Cat and the Devil, Exiles, Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach, Stephen Hero, Giacomo Joyce, Critical Writings & more”, p.1702, e-artnow

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• As a member of the Protestant British squirearchy ruling Ireland, he was touchy about his Irish origins. When in later life an enthusiastic Gael commended him as a famous Irishman, he replied "A man can be born in a stable, and yet not be an animal.

  Duke of Wellington

  Animal, Men, Born

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• My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.

  James Joyce

  Heart, Calm, My Heart

  James Joyce (2016). “James Joyce The Dover Reader”, p.242, Courier Dover Publications

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• It used to be the case that for an Irishman to come to the U.S. involved a perilous journey on a ship. It involved singing lots of songs before you left saying goodbye, and once you were in the U.S., it involved singing lots of songs about how you were never going to set foot in Ireland again.

  Joseph O'Neill

  Goodbye, Song, Journey

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• It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Today, Firsts, November

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “The Scorpio Races (Sneak Peek)”, p.4, Scholastic Inc.

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