Ireland Quotes
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It's a big year for me. We could get promoted, and I could play for Ireland in the World Cup in Germany. I wouldn't have come back to Palace if I didn't feel sure we could get promoted. Palace are better than Championship standard, and now it's up to us to prove that.
Clinton Morrison -
The idea of ignoring your past, only to confront it later in life, is a familiar experience whether you come here from Hungary or French Canada or Ireland.
Reg E. Cathey
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My relationship to all my family in Ireland is more to family as a whole. It wasn't that we had a very specific one-on-one relationship.
Aoife O'Donovan -
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 -
She said she arrived from Ireland after sliding off the curve of a rainbow with a dancing leprechaun and flew to America on the back of an owl.
Cathy Lamb -
You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler Yeats -
I pray. I try to find space to process with a walk on the beach, a hike in the hills. Nature is restorative. I also try not to overreact. I grew up in Ireland, and we are big tea drinkers, and I think it's less about the tea itself and more about the ritual and the moment to prepare.
Roma Downey -
Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts.
Campbell McGrath
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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 -
Maybe she'd ended up going to Ireland because whilst visiting her father she'd bumped into an old love from her youth, perhaps even her ex? Such spontaneous acts really only worked with men left over from earlier in your life.
Eva Heller -
I know tolerably well what Ireland was, but have a very imperfect idea of what Ireland is.
John Stuart Mill -
War and peace-making, human rights, humanitarian issues have become industries, but nobody looks closely at human greed, at the arms industry and the manufacture of landmines. Art has to take a wider view. The problems of Ireland are my problems, too.
Haris Pasovic -
Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.
George Bernard Shaw -
Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.
George Bernard Shaw
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The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
Seamus Heaney -
I have nothing to regret, to retract or take back . . . I can only say; God Save Ireland!
Edward Condon -
I would not want to put him in charge of snake control in Ireland.
Eugene McCarthy -
I love Ireland. I feel very at peace there. It's just magical and beautiful.
Eva Green -
The external reality and inner dynamic of happenings in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1974 were symptomatic of change, violent change admittedly, but change nevertheless, and for the minority living there, change had been long overdue.
Seamus Heaney