Quotes by Irish/Ireland authors (page 34)

"I believe, based on the activities, and I am not an expert on terrorism by any stretch, but I believe that when they attacked the United States and they attacked New York and Washington, D.C., they thought they could defeat us"

Jim Walsh, Politician

"I believe Congress has a duty to do so as well; not simply as a body of legislators, but more importantly as a community of friends, neighbors, parents and Americans"

Jim Walsh, Politician

"I have tried to explore the little talent I have for writing"

Cyril Cusack, Actor

"My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done"

Bernadette Devlin, Politician

"It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament"

Bernadette Devlin, Politician

"I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence"

Bernadette Devlin, Politician

"I really love singing"

Andrea Corr, Musician

"I love reality. I love the world. I love the smell of it. I love it"

Andrea Corr, Musician

"I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond that"

John Hume, Politician

"The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism"

Lord Kelvin, Scientist

"When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality"

George William Russell, Writer

"When you're young, you don't really know quite what you're aiming at. You're very impulsive and acting on impulse, which is very important and valuable. But you're kind of swimming in a blind sea. When you get older, you have more of a sense of direction"

Sinead O'Connor, Musician

"I've been married three times, really I should only have been married once"

Sinead O'Connor, Musician

"A man in my situation, my lords, has not only to encounter the difficulties of fortune. and the force of power over minds which it has corrupted or subjugated. but the difficulties of established prejudice: the man dies, but his memory lives"

Robert Emmet, Activist

"I'm sure you're aware, with the time it takes to put these books together, everything can suddenly start coming out at once even though I wrote anything between one and five years ago"

Garth Ennis, Writer

"The best way to study is to go to the Cecchetti method for about a year and draw onto all the highest points and then put that into the general method"

Ninette de Valois, Dancer

"First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out"

Ninette de Valois, Dancer

"Sitting down to eat in our house is about sharing, you know, talking about the day you've had, be it in school or work or whatever, so that's very important to us"

Liam Neeson, Actor

"I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry"

Liam Neeson, Actor

"But I was very, very lucky, and it was a wake up call as far as motorbikes are concerned. I never flirted with death on the bike, but now I'm totally convinced they're death machines"

Liam Neeson, Actor

"And as the hour approached for the execution, in his own mind, Collins became both the executioner and the victim. He would pace up and down, transformed in almost a kind of exorcism when he knew he was responsible for taking someone's life"

Liam Neeson, Actor

"I never felt I would be part of the international scene for 50 caps in my wildest dreams"

Kenny Cunningham, Athlete

"These are the influences that everybody has. Some individuals might stand out because of one thing or another, but whether one's perception as a child of what was important or not is accurate, I don't know"

John Hume, Politician

"Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit of family lore and history from her, which was interesting"

John Hume, Politician

"Before the arrival of the Credit Union, people who were from the poor background or a working class background couldn't borrow from banks"

John Hume, Politician

"Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy"

George William Russell, Writer

"The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you"

Jane Porter, Novelist

"The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us"

Jane Porter, Novelist

"The land of Ireland for the people of Ireland"

James Larkin, Activist

"The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland"

James Larkin, Activist

"No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic"

James Larkin, Activist

"Intolerance has been the curse of our country"

James Larkin, Activist

"Comrades - We are living in momentous times"

James Larkin, Activist

"By God's help, and the intelligent use of their own strong right arms they could accomplish great things"

James Larkin, Activist

"A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers"

James Larkin, Activist

"The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice"

Frank McCourt, Author

"I'm more interested in writing than in performing"

Frank McCourt, Author

"I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church"

Frank McCourt, Author

"Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely"

Frank McCourt, Author

"We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration"

James Larkin, Activist

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Quotes by Irish authors