Shamrocks Quotes

• For 'tis green, green, green, where the ruined towers are gray, And it's green, green, green, all the happy night and day; Green of leaf and green of sod, green of ivy on the wall, And the blessed Irish shamrock with the fairest green of all.

  Mary Elizabeth McGrath Blake

  Wall, Spring, Blessed

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• I'll seek a four leaved shamrock in all thy fairy dells, And if I find the charmed leaves, oh, how I'll weave my spells!

  Samuel Lover

  Angel, Four, Fairy

  Samuel Lover, “The Four-Leaved Shamrock”

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• O, the red rose may be fair, And the lily statelier; But my shamrock, one in three Takes the very heart of me!

  Katharine Tynan

  Heart, Rose, Three

  Katharine Tynan (1887). “Shamrocks”

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• The shamrock is a religious symbol. St. Patrick said the leaves represented the trinity: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. That's why four leaf clovers are so lucky, you get a bonus Jesus.

  Stephen Colbert

  Religious, Jesus, Father

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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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• I was scheduled to fight in November of 2008 in a kickboxing show called XMA. There were some controversies that happened between my management team as well as some of the promoters as far as setting up the fights. There was some talk of Ken Shamrock but nobody else had talked to Ken about it as far as the promoting.

  Shawn Tompkins

  Team, Fighting, Kickboxing

  Source: fiveouncesofpain.com

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• If you ask [my brother Frank Shamrock], I smoke crack, I do steroids and I cut myself (to get out of the Kimbo Slice fight). I mean you name it, I've done it -- just ask him.

  Ken Shamrock

  Brother, Mean, Fighting

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• Viva la the New Brigade! Viva la the Old One, too! Viva la, the Rose shall fade, And the Shamrock shine for ever new!

  Thomas Davis

  Rose, Shining, Viva

  Thomas Osborne Davis, Thomas Wallis (1857). “The Poems of Thomas Davis: Now First Collected. With Notes and Historical Illustrations”, p.143

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• It used to be that Shamrock was the world's most dangerous man, but now Shamrock is the world's most dangerous speedbump.

  Jerry Lawler

  Men, Wwe, World

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• Ken Shamrock is the World's Most Dangerous Man? Maybe behind the wheel of a car.

  Don Frye

  Men, Car, World

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• Bubble gum angels swooped from top margins or scraped their wings between teeming paragraphs, maidens with golden hair dripped sea blue tears into the books spine, grape-colored whales spouted blood around a newspaper item (pasted in) listing arrivals to the endangered spieces list. Six hatchlings cried from shattered shells near an entry made on Easter. Cecilia had filled the pages with a profusion of colors and curlicues, candyland ladders and striped shamrocks.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Easter, Book, Angel

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.29, Macmillan

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• My mother would organize huge parties for my elementary school classmates. To prepare, she would go back to the bakery in her old neighborhood of Inwood and get special shamrock cookies. Hawaiian Punch was served and we had shamrock napkins. It was a lot of fun.

  Christine Quinn

  Mother, Fun, Party

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