Irish Blood Sayings

#1. I find it impossible not to believe that there's something in Irish blood that favors their power with words.

Jim Harrison

#2. I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for my Mum. I know I've got Irish blood because I wake up everyday with a hangove

Noel Gallagher

#3. I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.

Harold Prince

#4. 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

#5. Roughly 1 in 6 Americans have Irish blood. I'd say it's probably safe to assume that the average Irish-American who only comes out on St. Patrick's Day has no idea of the sort of economic powerhouse Ireland has become.

Scott McClellan

#6. I cannot shy away from controversy. I don't know if it's my Irish blood, but I love it.

Gina McCarthy

#7. Her smile increased. She had perfect white regular teeth; Irish, Juliana decided. Only Irish blood could give that jawline such femininity.

Philip K. Dick

#8. I think most of the world would like to be Scottish. All the Americans who come here never look for English blood or Welsh, only for Scottish and Irish. It's understandable. The Scots effectively created the face of the modern world: the railways, the bridges, the tunnels.

Joanna Lumley

#9. It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish Nation.

Thomas Davis

#10. Irishness is not primarily a question of birth or blood or language; it is the condition of being involved in the Irish situation, and usually of being mauled by it.

Conor Cruise O'Brien

#11. My parents are Irish, my grandparents are Irish, my great-grandparents are Irish. I was born in England; my blood is Irish.

Brian McDermott

#12. My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.

Vivien Leigh

#13. Steady as she goes, Mister Kettle," the grim gaptain said, his voice stern.

Jim Butcher

#14. The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero's name will elicit whole chapters of stories.

P.L. Travers

#15. [Grief is for the strong, who use it as fuel for burning.]

Lauren Groff

#16. Oh God, friend breakups are the worst. The worst! And I've been through it. Basically, if you're over the age of 5, you've been through friend breakups.

Melissa Rivers

#17. The 'Irish Question' has dogged English politics for four hundred years and will continue to measure out its irresolution in blood and human lives until there is peace in Ireland.

Kevin Toolis

#18. We live in a world where everybody's supposed to be cool and act tough and put up fronts, and everybody is so cynical.

James Gunn

#19. I'm very aware of my own background. I'm Irish, French, and then a little bit of everything else thrown in, ranging from German to Native American. We're talking about tiny drops of blood.

Anne Hathaway

#20. What I told you tonight - it isn't my story alone. It belongs to every Irish person living and dead. And every Irish person living and dead belongs to it. And to all the story of Ireland; blood and bones, legends, guns and dreams, Catholics, Protestants, England, horses and poets and lovers.

Frank Delaney

#21. I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.

Uma Thurman

#22. The bogus religiosity which now surrounds original works of art, and which is ultimately dependent upon their market value, has become the substitute for what paintings lost when the camera made them reproducible.

John Berger

#23. The Irish are the only men who know how to cry for the dirty polluted blood of all the world.

Norman Mailer

#24. She let the fear burn inside her like fuel, making her voice even stronger.

Rick Riordan

#25. I'm part German and part Irish. In fact, there's even a town in Germany that was named after my family, Limbach or so forth. And I don't know. I might even have some Indian blood in there.

Rush Limbaugh

#26. And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.

James Joyce

#27. I liked the game, I enjoyed the game, and the game fed me enough, and gave me enough rewards to reinforce that this is something that I should spend time doing, and that I could possibly make a priority in my life, versus other sports.

Julius Erving

#28. I always believe in living in the country, because that's where what I eat is what I can put back in the dirt.

Eartha Kitt