Ireland Quotes - Page 4

• Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners.

  John McGahern

  Beautiful, Mean, People

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• It... is the best opportunity we've had in the last 25 years to bring about a settlement in Northern Ireland, and I think we should leave no stone unturned to achieve that.

  Dick Spring

  Opportunity, Thinking, Years

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• When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my passions were as a young girl, and so I studied folklore as a college student in England and Ireland.

  Terri Windling

  Love, Girl, Passion

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• I love L.A. I mean, in Ireland it just rains all the time, it's crap weather, so it's nice to go to L.A. where it's just sunshine every day, and then it's kinda easier to live a kinda healthy lifestyle. As opposed to New York, where you just drink all day.

  Jack Reynor

  New York, Nice, Rain

  "Questions And Answers From Tribeca: Jack Reynor". Interview with Kase Wickman, www.mtv.com. April 26, 2013.

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• My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher's mum - she was a dinner lady at our local school. Everyone comes over from Ireland and they get the same jobs.

  Danny Boyle

  Jobs, Dad, School

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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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• Greece is at a dangerous crossroads. Other countries-Portugal, Ireland, maybe Spain-are coming behind it.

  Loukas Tsoukalis

  Country, Spain, Portugal

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• Going back to Ireland involves at least six to seven emotional breakdowns for me per day.

  Anjelica Huston

  Emotional, Six, Seven

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• We moved to Ireland when I was two and we settled in Killarney, Co Kerry. Where we were living in Germany is very industrial and very grey and my parents wanted to have countryside around for my sister and I to grow up in.

  Michael Fassbender

  Growing Up, Two, Parent

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• I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.

  Fiona Shaw

  Writing, Stories, Upbringing

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

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• But while Ireland is not free I remain a rebel, unconverted and unconvertible. There is no word strong enough for it. I am pledged as a rebel, an unconvertible rebel, to the one thing - a free and independent Republic.

  Constance Markievicz

  Strong, Independent, Rebel

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• I'll wear no convicts uniform nor meekly serve my time that Britain might brand Irelands fight 800 years of crime.

  Bobby Sands

  Fighting, Years, Might

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• [On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Race, Devil, Want

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• The republic stands for truth and honour. For all that is noblest in our race. By truth and honour, principle and sacrifice alone will Ireland be free.

  Liam Mellows

  Sacrifice, Race, Principles

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• Indeed, American companies make three times as much profits from their investment in one E.U. country, Ireland, than they do from all their investments in China.

  John Bruton

  Country, Usa, Three

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• As long as Ireland is unfree the only honourable attitude for Irish men, women to have is an attitude of rebellion.

  Patrick Pearse

  Attitude, Men, Long

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• You cannot conquer Ireland; you cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom, then our children will win it by a better deed.

  Patrick Pearse

  Children, Passion, Winning

  Patrick Pearse at his court-martial, publish by the 75th Anniversary Committee, Dublin, 1991.

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• Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong.

  John Bruton

  Strong, Play, Roles

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• The field was even greener than my boy's mind had pictured it. In later years, friends of ours visited Ireland and said the grass there was plenty green all right, but that not even the Emerald Isle itself was as green as the grass that grew in Ebbets Field.

  Duke Snider

  Boys, Years, Mind

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

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• Both sides of my family had come from Ireland in the 19th century for the same reason: There was nothing to eat over there. Since then, I've tried to make up for the potato famine by making the potato the only vegetable that passes these lips.

  Art Donovan

  Vegetables, Potatoes, Sides

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• The airline industry is full of bullshitters, liars and drunks. We excel at all three in Ireland.

  Michael O'Leary

  Liars, Airline Business, Three

  "Business Focus: Into the unknown". www.thetimes.co.uk. November 20, 2005.

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• I'm disrespectful towards authority. I think the prime minister of Ireland is a gobshite.

  Michael O'Leary

  Thinking, Disrespectful, Authority

  "Tthe Shallow Spcialism Of Hating Michael O'Leary" by Brendan, www.spiked-online.com. June 25, 2010.

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• I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20.

  Neil Jordan

  Mean, Years, Issues

  Interview with with Michael Koresky, reverseshot.org. November 10, 2005.

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• While my hand is on the stick, my feet on the rudder, and my eyes on the compass, this consciousness, like a winged messenger, goes out to visit the waves below, testing the warmth of water, the speed of wind, the thickness of intervening clouds. It goes north to the glacial coasts of Greenland, over the horizon to the edge of dawn, ahead to Ireland, England, and the continent of Europe, away through space to the moon and stars, always returning, unwillingly, to the mortal duty of seeing that the limbs and muscles have attended their routine while it was gone.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Stars, Eye, Moon

  "The Spirit of St. Louis".

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• In Ireland we have a very old saying, When you can see the mountains it's going to rain and when you can't see the mountains it's raining.

  David Allen

  Rain, Entrepreneur, Mountain

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