Ireland Quotes

• 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
  • Up
  • Music
  • History

• It was in a mist the Tuatha de Danaan, the people of the gods of Dana, or as some called them, the Men of Dea, came through the air and the high air to Ireland.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • People
  • Men
  • High

• In Ireland, the tribes are called after the founder, as the Hy Conaill, Hy Fiachra, or sons of Conal, sons of Fiech, through grand, great-grand, and great-great-grandchildren.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Great
  • Grandchildren
  • Through

• Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Rich
  • University
  • Ireland

• There were no wrestling schools in Ireland. It was completely unheard of.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Wrestling
  • Schools
  • Ireland

• I've been on 'Jay Leno,' and everyone likes Jay, but being on that show is a really boring afternoon. I sincerely like Jay, but I wouldn't want his job, because I'd have to interview Kathy Ireland, and there's nothing there I'd want to know.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Jobs
  • Boring
  • Interviews

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

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • America
  • Dad
  • Childhood

• When John (Giles) was manager of Ireland, much as he loved me, he still dropped me.

  

  Eamon Quotes
  • Stills
  • Managers
  • Ireland

• I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Time
  • Feel
  • Ireland

• I have ambitions to set records which will be hard to chase down, like getting more than 100 caps for Ireland.

  

  Brian O'Driscoll
  • Records
  • Ambitions
  • Chase down

• 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
  • Heart
  • Future
  • Head

• I couldn't even get an audition for network TV at home in Ireland.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Home
  • Ireland
  • Audition

• A personal highlight was probably when we got a No. 1 in the U.K. and when the album went to No. 1 in America. The top four that week was us, Adele, Guns N' Roses and Bruce Springsteen. It was ridiculous seeing those names there. Being the first band from the U.K. and Ireland to go to America and debut at No. 1 is just unbelievable.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • America
  • Band
  • Firsts

• 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
  • People
  • May
  • Bad

• When I read or hear of the mutual injuries of England and Ireland, I fancy it would have been a blessed thing had the sea never flowed between the two countries. Had they been all in one, surely there would have been more unity between them of interests and of feelings. But let us hope that days of peace and general enlightenment will arrive by ways past man's finding out.

  

  Sara Coleridge
  • England
  • Injuries
  • Mutual

• I think Ireland will come out with a very different approach. I think, certainly in terms of attack, they'll play a far different game. We're prepared for anything...

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Different
  • Game
  • Approach

• England, Ireland and Wales will all be strong opposition at home and while it's good from a preparation side of things to have the Tests confirmed, we still have a full Super 12 and home international series ahead of us.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Good
  • Home
  • Strong

• My little sister Debbie was born at Aldergrove, and my nan is from southern Ireland, so I do try and get over quite a bit.

  

  Ricky Whittle
  • Sister
  • Southern
  • Ireland

• You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smith's autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Up
  • Song
  • Words

• I didn't start traveling abroad until I was 17, but I spent many summers on the beaches of Donegal in Ireland.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Start
  • Many
  • Ireland

• I love to go to Ireland just to relax.

  

  Ronnie Wood The Rolling Stones
  • Love
  • Just
  • Relax

• I grew up in Ireland, and there were so many things we believed in.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Up
  • Things
  • Ireland

• The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled with barbarous terms.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Style
  • Scholars
  • Phraseology

• To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • World
  • Heart
  • Break

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