Boston Irish Sayings

#1. Americans are much more American than they are Northerners, Southerners, Westerners, or Easterners ... California Chinese, Boston Irish, Wisconsin German, yes, Alabama Negroes, have more in common than they have apart ... The American identity is an exact and provable thing.

John Steinbeck

#2. I'm interested in why people talk like they do. Like Boston Irish. It's so laid back. Why is that?

Sean Bean

#3. Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.

Taylor Swift

#4. I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

Thornton Wilder

#5. I'm pretty much an isolated person. I'd rather stay home and play video games.

Steve Jones

#6. We are all sufferers from history, but the paranoid is a double sufferer, since he is afflicted not only by the real world, with the rest of us, but by his fantasies as well.

Richard Hofstadter

#7. There are more people of Irish descent in Boston and surrounding New England than there are in Ireland.

Anonymous

#8. Home's where the people you love are. It's about finding the things that matter to you, and holding on to them and taking care of them.

Charles Sheehan-Miles

#9. One should see that all appearance is like mist and fog.

Milarepa

#10. When I was growing up, there were so many things I thought were stylish. Jabo jeans, V Bombers, Clarks, Vikings, Nugget watches, Lee pants with the patches, leather hats - which I still wear now. All hip-hop stuff, all South Bronx stuff.

Swizz Beatz

#11. The distinction that Jews have themselves always made between Jews of German origin and Jews of East European origin is as stringent as that between Boston Brahmin and Boston lace-curtain Irish, though much finer.

Diana Trilling

#12. The amusing thing about 'X-Force' is that it was highly rated - and hated - in about equal measure, Which suited me just fine. If no-one's feathers were a little ruffled, we probably wouldn't have been doing our jobs right.

Peter Milligan

#13. I don't know how to let you go. I don't think I can do it.

Angie Stanton

#14. I speak with a Northern Irish accent with a tinge of New York. My wife has a bit of a Boston accent; my oldest daughter talks with a Denver accent, and my youngest has a true blue Aussie accent. It's complicated.

Adrian McKinty

#15. Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.'

Robert Kennedy

#16. And then I have two children by Theresa, one boy 10 and one girl 13.

Merle Haggard

#17. You don't get black power by chanting it. You get it by doing what the other groups have done. The Irish kept quiet. They didn't shout "Irish Power", "Jew Power", [or] "Italian Power". They kept their mouths shut and took over the police department of New York City, and the mayorship of Boston.

Whitney M. Young

#18. I look into my glass,
And view my wasting skin,
And say, 'Would God it came to pass
My heart had shrunk as thin!

Thomas Hardy

#19. There are important questions about protecting and securing the border, but we don't need to build a wall.

Jeb Bush

#20. Self expansion in any form, whether through wealth or through virtue, is a process of conflict, causing antagonism and confusion. A

Jiddu Krishnamurti