Irish Potato Quotes

#1. The typical Irish peasant ate about 10 pounds of potatoes each day and soon towered in physical size over their rural English equivalents who mainly ate bread.

Rashers Tierney

#2. Complexity is not good. People don't understand the elegance of simplicity.

Gordon Willis

#3. Lord, you're Irish," said Will. "Can you make things that don't have potatoes in them? We had an Irish cook once when I was a boy. Potato pie, potato custard, potatoes with potato sauce ...

Cassandra Clare

#4. What can I say? I'm Irish, I love a good potato.

Sophia Tallon

#5. Potatoes came to Europe from the New World in the early sixteenth century. Sir Francis Drake is thought to have introduced the potato to England, and shortly afterward Sir Walter Raleigh tried planting them on his Irish estates. When

Ryan Hackney

#6. The words, gestures, and threats of our officers were thrown away upon men who had lost all presence of mind and only longed for absence of body.

Andrew Potter

#7. Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life - there, if one must speak out, the real man.

Marcus Aurelius

#8. He was a windbag. He made a great many orations, and I imagine he did a very good job, but he was still a windbag

Harry Truman

#9. This is nothing new. It has proved meritorious because we have gathered significant information on bad guys and only on bad guys over the years.

Saxby Chambliss

#10. It's often said that "the Irish built America. The truth is, not only did they build it, they also manufactured, repaired, and cleaned it, especially in the decades before and after the potato famine.

Rashers Tierney