Ireland Quotes - Page 7

• 872, Ivar, King of the Northmen of all Ireland and Britain , ended his life." He had conquered Mercia and East Anglia. He had captured the major stronghold of the kingdom of Strathclyde, Dumbarton. Laden with loot and seemingly invincible, he settled in Dublin and died there peacefully two years later. The pious chroniclers report that he "slept in Christ." Thus it may be that he had the best of both worlds.

  Winston Churchill

  Kings, Years, Two

  Winston Churchill (2004). “A History of the English Speaking Peoples 01. The Birth of Britain.”

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• I must say that though other days may not be so bright, as we look toward the future, that the brightest days will continue to be those we spent with you here in Ireland.

  John F. Kennedy

  Looks, May

  Speech at Eyre Square, Galway, Ireland, June 29, 1963.

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• I believe that those who die for Ireland have no need for prayer

  Liam Mellows

  Prayer, Believe, Needs

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• My only counsel to Ireland is that in order to become deeply Irish, she must become European.

  Tom Kettle

  Order

  Tom Kettle (1968). “The day's burden and other essays”

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• Sometimes you wonder, do referees understand the game of football? 

  Roy Keane

  Football, Games, Sometimes

  "10 classic Roy Keane rants". www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2006.

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• I love it when the team scores... the lads are always giving me stick because of it, but I'm just so happy I can't help it.

  Roy Keane

  Team, Giving, Sticks

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• We now have political chaos. We've got parties in Ireland saying they want to merge with Northern Ireland. You've got parties in Scotland saying you want to leave the U.K. You've got the Spanish government saying it would like to take ownership of Gibraltar, which is a British overseas territory... So just the politics of this is a mess.

  Tim Harford

  Party, Government, Scotland

  "Episode 707: Brexit". "Planet Money" with Robert Smith, Jacob Goldstein, www.npr.org. June 24, 2016.

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• Packing is important because a lot of times I have to go places where I have to be in four different climates in three weeks. For example, Bosnia, Ireland, Rome. Different parts of Italy. You have to pack and get it down to a science.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Rome, Important, Climate

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. September 28, 2006.

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• I don't get a lot of enjoyment out of sitting there for an hour and a half watching a game like we saw between Ireland and England last Sunday.

  Michael Owen

  Sunday, Games, Sitting

  "Michael Owen on the English team, Wayne Rooney and the goals record". Interview with Kevin Palmer, www.espn.co.uk. June 12, 2015.

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• I realized I was growing up or something like that. You have responsibilities...you've got to think about getting your act together. I didn't even know what it had been doing to me. I didn't realize how dangerous it was. People talked in terms of drugs and I used to think in terms of...well in Ireland, everybody drinks. Nobody gives it a second thought. You're Irish number one and you're a drinker number two. That's the first two things about us Irish.

  Van Morrison

  Growing Up, Responsibility, Thinking

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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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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• My middle name is Nicole. It's so weird because my mom is from El Salvador, but my sisters and I have Irish names - Christy, Kelly, and Erin. And Christy and Kelly, they're not even girls' names! In Ireland, they're boys' names. And somehow, my mom was in El Salvador dreaming about Shamrocks before we were born.

  Christy Turlington

  Girl, Mom, Dream

  Source: www.elle.com

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• When you travel the world, you have to watch and you have to listen. We're not going to come in to Ireland without an understanding that there's a history that's very sensitive.

  Chuck D

  Understanding, Watches, World

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• The last 15 years we had one of the biggest economic booms. But I think a few bubbles have burst in a few countries. So we are all going through the same things. But let's say Ireland, in the '70s and the '80s was tough, but if you grow up with a tough background it makes you strong.

  Gavin Friday

  Country, Strong, Growing Up

  Source: bigthink.com

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• My main influences - I loved art. I sounds a little pretentious to say I was into art but I liked drawing. I liked music; music was my outlet from day one. I was giving you an image of Ireland being this dull, grey, massive unemployment, not much going on and the future was the dull queue or - and, for me, the window of hope was music and books. So I fell in love with sort of T-Rex and David Bowie very young. They sort of said, "Hey. You don't have to live in this north side of Dublin that's all grey and depressed. You can be a spider and go to Mars."

  Gavin Friday

  Art, Book, Giving

  Source: bigthink.com

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• We don't have a long of natural resources as a country; we have a very beautiful country. Visually, I mean, everyone goes on about it's green, it's the mountains and the rivers and it's clean and it's not that populated. It is stunningly beautiful, but we've no oil. We've no coal. We've no money. We just have Ireland.

  Gavin Friday

  Beautiful, Country, Mean

  Source: bigthink.com

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• A weird theory I have is we come from a suppressed culture. Ireland is one of the most invaded countries ever. I think the British started it very early, it could be like 800 that decided to come and show us out; and the Danes in the north. We've had a tough time and pretty much a similar culture would be the Jewish culture; they had a pretty hard time. They were being kicked around for a long, long time.

  Gavin Friday

  Country, Hard Times, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland. We know from the French, their wonderfully neurotic presidents, that our hands are sort of tied. The Italians - I don't know where it stops. No nation can claim "We are an uncorrupt nation, therefore we will tell you what the morals of democracy are." Because it's going on everywhere.

  Ciaran Hinds

  Dirty, Democracy, President

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I don't live in Ireland, I live in London with my girlfriend; and it's because of the globalization of our planet, it's not necessary to live in Los Angeles to be a successful and any country is just an airplane ride away. If there's a director who wants to meet me or if there's something I have to do, I can just hop on an airplane - the world's small now.

  Jonathan Rhys Meyers

  Country, Girlfriend, Airplane

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The whole Ireland was taken over by greed and materialism. It was extraordinary. The price of every house had skyrocketed. If you were a small farmer and you had two fields outside, if you built 17 bungalows on them all, you become a millionaire, that kind of thing. It was extraordinary to see how rapidly that kind of ethic takes over a whole culture, but that's what's happened to us since the year 1998, about. It's completely extraordinary how little regard the culture had for the landscape. The country is now full of these half-built industrial parks and hotels.

  Neil Jordan

  Country, Taken, House

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Ireland is becoming like everywhere else, but that's the one I grew up in: the one that's hugely illogical. Rather wonderful, in a way. I never found this oppression of religion and that, but I did enjoy growing up in a culture that didn't need to be rational all of the time.

  Neil Jordan

  Growing Up, Culture, Wonderful

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• We always planned to move back to the Republic but it never happened, I'm not sure why. My dad is one of those immigrants who never leaves the place he came from. He talks about Ireland all the time. If any Irishman wins at any sort of sport, he sees it as a personal achievement.

  Maggie O'Farrell

  Sports, Dad, Moving

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I was interested in the ripples of feminism passing through Britain and Ireland in the mid-Seventies - how the reverberations of the feminist political movement were being felt in suburban households. So many novels end with a marriage.

  Maggie O'Farrell

  Feminist, Political, Feminism

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• If you grew up Protestant in Ireland, of course, at least in the twentieth century, there was always a contingent that would never really consider you Irish. Meanwhile in Britain you'd
  never quite be considered British. You fell into a gap in the definitions.

  Nick Laird

  Never Quit

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• To be rhymed to death as is said to be done in Ireland.

  Philip Sidney

  Death, Done, Said

  'The Defence of Poesie' (1595)

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