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My mom, she's from Ireland, coached tennis in Nigeria when she was a missionary and turned me on to it when I was young.
— Donal Logue
Idioms are a big thing in Ireland. They want to fill the time, to show how good they are at talk - it's a talk-off
— Dylan Moran
Since Ireland's independence declaration was a century older, I could not be sure if his self-evident truths meant as much as they would in America.
— Jennifer Harrison
Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.
— William Butler Yeats
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
I'm completely in love with you. What if I didn't leave, after all?
— Tamara Ireland Stone
I was one of the many kids in Northern Ireland who grew up in the countryside and had an idyllic childhood well away from the Troubles.
— James Nesbitt
This is Ireland, Finley. It's rough. It's wild. And it is holy.
— Jenny B. Jones
Loss is a significant force that can serve as a catalyst for change. It can bring about an awakening, drawing out something sacred within us.
— Mark Ireland
I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.
— Loretta Lynn
I believe there are three keys to success. For me it is keeping my priorities in order: It's my faith and my family, and then the business.
— Kathy Ireland
Ireland unfree shall never be at peace
— Patrick Pearse
Ireland's place north and south is in Europe and leading change in Europe.
— Martin McGuinness
Ireland's just a place ... people go there all the time.
— Crispin Glover
I know my strengths. Painfully aware of the weaknesses. There's many. I love sports. So working towards a common goal, that's exciting to me.
— Kathy Ireland
What's the use of being Irish if you can't be thick?
— Billy Conn
My husband hailed from Dagenham; he's an Essex boy. Me myself, I come from Derry City in the northwest of Ireland, so we love to get back.
— Roma Downey
World Cup. "It's got to be Ireland," said Charlie thickly, through a mouthful of potato. "They flattened Peru in the semifinals.
— J.K. Rowling
It's never been done doesn't mean it can't be done.
— Kathy Ireland
World War One is an important part of Ireland's multi-layered history during which tens of thousands Irish people lost their lives.
— Martin McGuinness
My first winner was on Legal Steps, in Ireland, at Thurles, in March 1992. I rode for Jim Bolger, and his stable jockey was Christy Roche.
— Tony McCoy
Men, once enemies, are now jointly governing in Northern Ireland. And although there have been several hitches, by and large it's working well.
— Betty Williams
What can I say? I'm Irish, I love a good potato.
— Sophia Tallon
Clear synapses are like driving in Ireland. You hit a straight-away
and you gun it, cos you know it's not going to last long. — S. Kelley Harrell
and you gun it, cos you know it's not going to last long. — S. Kelley Harrell
If Northern Ireland had better weather, it would be like New Zealand. It's an immensely beautiful country.
— Ian Beattie
TV sounds are all the same; there's no difference between the sound of the wind in Northern Ireland and the wind on a Polynesian island.
— Ryu Murakami
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
Iran, Ireland, Israel. That's three countries, four religions that HATE each other. Way to go, 'I'.
— Jon Stewart
Everyone's got something. Some people are just better actors than others.
— Tamara Ireland Stone
Northern Ireland are ten minutes away from their finest victory. There's 15 minutes to go here.
— John Motson
I'm Irish; I grew up in Ireland, and it's impossible to separate my background from who I am as a filmmaker.
— Lenny Abrahamson
The Irish are a fair people: They never speak well of one another.
— Samuel Johnson
We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.
— Marianne Williamson
It's important to find one that complements your body and not try to fit into something that doesn't work.
— Kathy Ireland
There's an energy that hangs between strangers even in a crowd.
— Claire Fullerton
Ever since I left Northern Ireland, I've always been pretty comfortable on my own, which contradicts a lot of people's perceptions of me.
— James Nesbitt
In business it's about people. It's about relationships.
— Kathy Ireland
I think there's a down-to-earthness with Midwesterners and with people from the Midlands - which is where my family is from - in Ireland.
— Aidan Quinn
Ireland regards sex, when she regards it at all, with an entirely primitive and practical eye.
— Susan Mitchell
At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.
— Seamus Heaney
The british govt has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland ,never can have any right in Ireland
— James Connolly
St. Patrick's Day is a holy day for Roman Catholics in Ireland to pray and a day for drunk people to vomit with their pants down in New Jersey.
— Margot Leitman
When the Internet arrived in Ireland ... it was like having Amsterdam's Red Light District in your own living room.
— Tom Dunne
It's always harder to be the one who's left behind than the one who leaves.
— Tamara Ireland Stone
Northern Ireland is the world's best kept secret, both in the character of its people and its scenery.
— Liam Neeson
In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish.
— Caroline Corr
England and Ireland may flourish together. The world is large enough for both of us. Let it be our care not to make ourselves too little for it.
— Edmund Burke
The tune was sad, as the best of Ireland was, melancholy and lovely as a lover's tears.
— Nora Roberts
I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination.
— John Hume
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
After a taste of a Scot, you'll never look elsewhere again."
A brunette smiled seductively, "That's quite a boast."
"I'm quite a man. — Donna Grant
A brunette smiled seductively, "That's quite a boast."
"I'm quite a man. — Donna Grant
I have always been a lover of the sun, even if, through spending a lifetime in Ireland, I have had little personal connection with it.
— John Boyne
There's a lot I've missed about living in Ireland. You miss family, particularly when you've got kids.
— Deirdre O'Kane
There is no topicmore soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation.
— Ezra Pound
It's just very homey in Ireland. It's very comforting and comfortable. There's lots of fireplaces with fires. It's just really cozy.
— Amy Adams
From my experience of shooting 'Tudors' on the island of Ireland, you cannot predict the weather.
— Natalie Dormer
More guilt, guilt, guilt. That's the Irish condition.
— Adrian McKinty
It's so tough to get movies made in Ireland anymore. A whole generation of Irish filmmakers doesn't have the resources to get a movie made.
— Ciaran Hinds
Life's too short not to have fun with what you wear.
— Ireland Baldwin
It is Ireland's sacred duty to send over, every few years, a playwright to save the English theater from inarticulate glumness.
— Kenneth Tynan
Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse.
— John Boyle O'Reilly
What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
— Lady Gregory
It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.
— V.S. Pritchett
Like a lot of stupid people, it took a great deal to get an idea into the king's head, but once there, there was no shifting it.
— Richard Killeen
In Ireland there's no such thing as bad weather ~~~ only the wrong clothes.
(In the Company of Others) — Jan Karon
(In the Company of Others) — Jan Karon
At three o'clock this afternoon Evelyn Wastneys died. I am Evelyn Wastneys, and I died, standing at the door of an old country home in Ireland...
— Mrs. George De Horne Vaizey
And I know I need to invite him over for dinner, because there's no question. This is serious.
— Tamara Ireland Stone
So many young people say, 'I'm just going to see what happens.' It's so much more powerful to make things happen and have a plan.
— Kathy Ireland
It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?
— Dorothy Salisbury Davis
The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.
— Boyle Roche
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
I have to say I've made many mistakes, and been humbled many, many times. But you know what? It's never too late to learn.
— Kathy Ireland
If peace came it would have to do so when there had been time to allow the hatred to grow out of people's thinking.
— Sara Sheridan
More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence combined.
— David Frum
Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety.
— Patricia Ireland
I'm sure there's a hell of a party in Ireland now and I know I don't have anything to do for two-and-a-half days so I'm going to party on
— Padraig Harrington
I love Ireland. I'll always be 100pc Irish. I get really excited when I go to Sligo; it's my home.
— Shane Filan
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
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the hottest bitch of all?
— Sara Humphreys
I definitely want to keep working in Ireland, and without being too worthy about it, if it's possible to bring work into the country, that's no harm.
— Chris O'Dowd
My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look at the old homestead.
— John C. Hawkes
But listen well. In Tir na nOg, because there is no sorrow, there is no joy.
Do you hear the meaning of the seachain's song? — Alexandra Ripley
Do you hear the meaning of the seachain's song? — Alexandra Ripley
A face on him as long as a hare's back leg.
— Myles Na GCopaleen
The afterlife is one of death's best kept secrets. . . and I was living proof of that.
— Ireland Gill
Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that the Irish don't even acknowledge that it exists.
— Alan Parker
There's never going to be a united Ireland, you know.
— Seamus Heaney
Yes ... I miss that everyone in Ireland tries to knock some humour out of every situation. I don't think I appreciated that. It's unique to Ireland.
— Deirdre O'Kane