David Lloyd George Quotes

They condemn him Hitler for persecuting the Jews, but he has not shown half the ferocity which Cromwell showed towards the Irish Catholics—as for instance, in the siege of the fortress of Drogheda and the burning alive of its inmates.

David Lloyd George

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• The economy in Ireland has been rampaging ahead for the last 15 years. Barring an international, political or natural catastrophe, things can only get better for the Irish.

  

  Eddie Murphy
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• The characters in 'Ray Donovan' are not very articulate - we're the worst Irish family you could ever live next to in L.A.

  

  Eddie Marsan
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• My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'

  

  Natascha McElhone
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• I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.

  

  Van Morrison
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• My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.

  

  Olivia Wilde
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• She was obsessed with French and Swedish cinema. I also remember our mother showing us 'Gone With the Wind' very early on. She absolutely loved Vivien Leigh, so it must have been a formative experience for me, thinking, 'Oh, maybe one day I'll be like Vivien Leigh.'

  

  Felicity Jones
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• It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding, do you think?

  

  Kate Bush
  • American
  • Think
  • English

• The gun is not out of Irish politics.

  

  Ian Paisley
  • Politics
  • Gun
  • Irish

• My wife's a loving, funny, Irish-spirited person, and I'm still surprised at some of the things she says. She makes me laugh every day.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • She
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  • Day

• I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor.

  

  Harrison Ford
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  • Actor
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• Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins pursue Irishness as a poetic end, they are merely exploiting incidental local colour.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Poetry
  • End
  • Irish

• I had grown up as an Irish poet in a country where the distance between vision and imagination was not quite as wide as in some other countries.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Up
  • Country
  • Imagination

• I got an Irish passport the other day. I love it. It's the best thing in my pocket.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Irish

• In fact the hardest part is trying to forget music when I'm not conducting it.

  

  Lorin Maazel
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• Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

  

  Aphra Behn
  • Health
  • Solitude
  • Jealousy

• There are so many wonderful, wonderful musicians in the world, I cannot possibly make a distinction between the fact that they might play classical music, or bluegrass, or Irish traditional, or Indian music.

  

  Daniel Hope
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• I was born into an Irish Catholic family in the New York area in this great, wonderful, and safe country, but the Holocaust has always haunted me, and it has long stood as a stumbling block to faith. How could such a thing be? How is that consistent with the concept of a loving God?

  

  James Comey
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• The last dog I had was an Irish wolfhound - now that is a dog. Rather spoils a person for a lesser canine, that is, anything under a hundredweight.

  

  Laurie R. King
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• In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.

  

  Les Brown
  • Positive
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• We all have stories for a reason, and if we keep them to ourselves, I don't feel they would help anybody.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
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• I'm interested in light. It's a very direct, pragmatic, American, rather naive approach.

  

  James Turrell
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• If you could really guarantee that the money would be spent on something more worthwhile, I'd say, absolutely, scrap the space program, but it never works that way.

  

  Mary Roach
  • Money
  • Space

• The event of the landing of these brethren upon our shores is to be, not without its beneficial effect, as well to the colored population of this country, as it promises to be to ill-fated Africa.

  

  Lewis Tappan
  • Country

• They condemn him Hitler for persecuting the Jews, but he has not shown half the ferocity which Cromwell showed towards the Irish Catholics—as for instance, in the siege of the fortress of Drogheda and the burning alive of its inmates.

  

  David Lloyd George
  • Irish