All Quotes

Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother.
‐‐ Boyle Roche

Ireland and its people have much to be proud of. Yet every land and its people have moments of shame. Dealing with the failures of our past, as a country, as a Church, or as an individual is never easy. Our struggle to heal the wounds of decades of violence, injury and painful memory in Northern Ireland are more than ample evidence of this.
‐‐ Sean Brady

Ireland cannot become the collector general for the world. We can only tax on profits generated in the country here.
‐‐ Enda Kenny

Ireland. Great for the spirit - very bad for the body.
‐‐ Hugh Dancy

Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong.
‐‐ John Bruton

Ireland has made its choice for the future and it has chosen the version of Irishness it will build. I know, and I will work with head and heart to be part of it with all of you in creating that future one in which all of us can be part of and part of us too.
‐‐ Michael D. Higgins

Ireland, in breadth, and for wholesomeness and serenity of climate, far surpasses Britain; for the snow scarcely ever lies there above three days: no man makes hay in the summer for winter's provision, or builds stables for his beasts of burden... the island abounds in milk and honey.
‐‐ Venerable Bede

Ireland is a good place to start out as a filmmaker. If what you do is good, even at a very small scale, it will get recognized.
‐‐ Lenny Abrahamson

Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.
‐‐ Elizabeth Bowen

Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.
‐‐ John McGahern

Ireland is a series of stories that have been told to us, starting with the Irish Celtic national revival. I never believed in 'Old Ireland.' It has been made all of kitsch by the diaspora, looking back and deciding what Ireland is. Yes, it is green. Yes, it is friendly. I can't think of anything else for definite.
‐‐ Anne Enright

Ireland is also quite nice. So is Amsterdam.
‐‐ Diane von Furstenberg

Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since.
‐‐ Tana French

Ireland is such an amazing country, and I have this little dream in the back of my head that someday I'll end up living there. When I've established myself in America and I don't need to live near the action, so to speak, and if you're good, the work will come to you. I feel very Irish; maybe that's why I've been so lucky with my career.
‐‐ Anne Hathaway

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
‐‐ James Joyce

Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.
‐‐ James Taylor

Ireland never lacked the capacity to feed its people. During the entire 'great famine,' the island continued to produce massive amounts of beef and grain. The Irish just couldn't afford to buy any of it due to the enforcement of rack-renting, high taxation, and suppression of manufactures.
‐‐ Robert Zubrin

Ireland's always going to be my home, but so much is filmed in L.A., so you have to spend time out here.
‐‐ Sarah Bolger

Ireland's place north and south is in Europe and leading change in Europe.
‐‐ Martin McGuinness

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.
‐‐ James Joyce

Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind.
‐‐ John Jeremiah Sullivan

Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that.
‐‐ Daniel Day-Lewis

Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations.
‐‐ Sabine Baring-Gould

Iris Johansen's lovers weathered the sack of city states and the vagaries of the French Revolution; Judith McNaught's heroines endured amnesia, social ostracism and misunderstandings so big they deserved their own ZIP code.
‐‐ Lauren Willig

Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
‐‐ A. N. Wilson

Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.
‐‐ Bob Geldof

Irish and Italian are my two favourite people.
‐‐ Paul Haggis

Irish fathers still have certain responsibilities, and by the time my two daughters turned seven, they could swim, ride a bike, sing at least one part of a Woody Guthrie song, and recite all of W. B. Yeats's 'The Song of Wandering Aengus.'
‐‐ Adrian McKinty

Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.
‐‐ Terry Eagleton

Irish mythology is gorgeous, and so are the fairies, but they are very misrepresented in the U.K. They are not little creatures with wings.
‐‐ Kate Thompson

Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
‐‐ Floyd Skloot

Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.
‐‐ Fiona Shaw

Irish people are pragmatic. They understand that nobody is going to fix our problems but ourselves.
‐‐ Enda Kenny

Irish people give big hellos and very little goodbyes. Unless they're female, and then they spend five hours talking in the doorway to the person that's leaving their house.
‐‐ Dylan Moran

Irish poetry has lost the ready ear and the comforts of recognition. But we must go on. We must be true to our own minds.
‐‐ Austin Clarke

Irish research will contribute to global progress and have the potential to help all countries realise the potential of their land sectors in addressing climate change - this means reducing emissions, adapting to impacts, and enhancing and improving carbon sinks.
‐‐ Enda Kenny

Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world.
‐‐ Peter O'Toole

Irish writing is so strong that it can feel like the country has all been covered, but in fact, there are so many gaps. The small west of Ireland cities and the working classes there have almost never appeared in Irish literature, simply because those communities were never in the way of producing books.
‐‐ Kevin Barry

'Irma Voth' is my sixth book, but it's only the third time I've featured Mennonite settings and characters.
‐‐ Miriam Toews

Iron hand in a velvet glove.
‐‐ Charles V

Iron Maiden is an institution, and I'm delighted that I'm involved in it, but there was a time that I wasn't delighted so I quit.
‐‐ Bruce Dickinson

'Iron Man' was this fun, poppy thing bound to make a zillion dollars. And we were the other side of a superhero movie. More complex with The Hulk being this complex character - that's what it was.
‐‐ Louis Leterrier

'Iron' Mike Tyson is the last boxer who was truly embraced by the media. They followed him around. You didn't know what he was going to do next: bite you, cut you, fight you. When you think about it, that defines him - it was an exciting adventure.
‐‐ George Foreman

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
‐‐ Leonardo da Vinci

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.
‐‐ Anne Bradstreet

Iron which is brought near a spiral of copper wire, traversed by an electrical current, becomes magnetic, and then attracts other pieces of iron, or a suitably placed steel magnet.
‐‐ Hermann von Helmholtz

Ironically, being a coach on 'The Voice' and spending time with those kids, Xenia and Dia especially, I learned a lot about myself. It reminded me how lucky I am that this happened for me, and it kind of lit the spark inside me again for my love of music.
‐‐ Blake Shelton

Ironically enough, why I got into politics is because I came to the conclusion that if you wanted to save the world, which in my mind was through the environment, those elected officials seemed to be the ones who made a lot of the important decisions, if not the most important decisions.
‐‐ Mike Quigley

Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music.
‐‐ Pat Boone