Fighting Irish Quotes

#1. Three Scotsmen of the clan McKay were looking for a fourth member to fight four members of the Irish clan Magee ... 'I'm not one of you,' my father pointed out. 'You see, I'm one of the clan M-c-C-A-Y.' And that is how I got both my name and my sense of humor.

Winsor McCay

#2. As the director, you're meant to be critical and you are, so there are loads of things. But the thing is, the way I look at it is, to try to get some measure of success, it's dangerous to look at financial or critical success, or positive response as a measure.

David Slade

#3. I have no prouder boast to say I am Irish and have been privileged to fight for the Irish people and for Ireland. If I have a duty I will perform it to the full with the unshakable belief that we are a noble race and that chains and bounds have no part in us

Francis Hughes

#4. Ya see I'm Irish, but I'm not a leprechaun.
You wanna fight, then step up and we'll get it on!

Everlast

#5. I had to have some balls to be Irish Catholic in South London. Most of that time I spent fighting.

Pierce Brosnan

#6. An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.

Charles Caleb Colton

#7. Most people are living for today with barely a thought of eternity.

Billy Graham

#8. Be it in the rough-and-tumble world of inner-city politics or the bare-knuckle boxing ring, the Irish rightly earned their fightin' moniker.

Rashers Tierney

#9. My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure.

Willard Wigan

#10. Take Charge Of Your Financial Future. I believe investing small amounts each month in the stock market will give you financial freedom in the later years of your life.

Bo Sanchez

#11. To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother. It's the only thing that lasts, that's worth working for, for fighting for ...

Alexandra Ripley

#12. When i look to my past i'm not believe in god but for future god is hope.

Kjiva

#13. Only the Irish working class remains as the incorruptible inheritors of the fight for freedom in Ireland.

James Connolly

#14. The Irish tell the story of a man who arrives at the gates of heaven and asks to be let in St. Peter says, "Of course, just show us your scars." The man says, "I have no scars". St. Peter says, "What a pity was there nothing worth fighting for"?

Martin Sheen

#15. I don't have any great love for Chicago. What the hell, a childhood around Douglas Park isn't very memorable. I remember the street fights and how you were afraid to cross the bridge 'cause the Irish kid on the other side would beat your head in. I left Chicago a long time ago.

Benny Goodman

#16. When I finally gave up any hope of doing anything representative of the American family, I actually seemed to have tapped into other people's weirdness in that way.

Jonathan Franzen

#17. When you do a writing job for a studio, one of the things you want to do is satisfy the expectations of your employer. That's a little bit different than when you sit down and write something to satisfy yourself, because then you're the employer.

Joel Coen

#18. The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive.

Walter Jon Williams

#19. To become a lifelong reader, one has to do a lot of varied and interesting reading.

Kelly Gallagher

#20. Crowds came to form a shield against their own dying. To become a crowd is to keep out death. To break off from the crowd is to risk death as an individual, to face dying alone.

Don DeLillo

#21. The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting

Mark Twain

#22. Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.

Voltaire

#23. had gone to work in Worcester's famous Washburn & Moen barbed wire factory: Swedes were preferred by employers there because, unlike the Irish, they did not tend to get either fighting drunk or unionized.

Richard Davenport-Hines

#24. I can always guarantee that the Irish Citizen Army will fight but I cannot guarantee that it will be on time

James Connolly

#25. The Irish are never at peace but when they're fighting.

Mary Deasy