Learn Irish Sayings

#1. They cut the umbilical cord, give you a slap on the ass, and presto! you're out in the world, adrift, a ship without a rudder. - Author: Henry Miller

#2. Nkechi never tried to hide her bottom. She was proud of it. Fascinating to me. Irish girls' lives were a constant quest for bottom-disguising or bottom-reducing clothing tactics. We can learn much from other cultures. - Author: Marian Keyes

#3. There are many reasons why photography does not attract the social and cultural attention it deserves. I would add one more which has received scant attention: it does not make a lot of noise ... Perhaps photography would be more appreciated if camera shutters fired with the sound of a .357 Magnum. - Author: Bill Jay

#4. Did the Warwickshire militia, who were chiefly artisans, teach the Irish to drink beer, or did they learn from the Irish how to drink whiskey? - Author: Maria Edgeworth

#5. We must not allow our emotions to hold sway over our minds. Rather, we must seek to let the truth of God rule our minds. Our emotions must become subservient to the truth. - Author: Jerry Bridges

#6. The Holy Spirit is given to us in order for us to be like fire, when we speak in tongues. - Author: Sunday Adelaja

#7. I am extremely passionate about digital media and as a longtime user and fan of Yahoo! - Author: Ross Levinsohn

#8. When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound. - Author: Taylor Dayne

#9. There are bad things in the world. There's no getting away from that. But that doesn't mean nothing can be done about them. You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because sometimes you get hurt. - Author: Jim Butcher

#10. Irish poets, learn your trade,
sing whatever is well made,
scorn the sort now growing up
all out of shape from toe to top. - Author: W.B.Yeats

#11. The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own dirge, tides on her wat'ry hearse. - Author: Phineas Fletcher

#12. A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained. - Author: Alan Turing

#13. If you stand back and look at it in a global sense you'll find this [Irish people in music] was happening everywhere. Which is just another example of a wave of artistic endeavour that changes. It reaches a certain point, learn from what its done and move on. We seemed to have picked up on that. - Author: John Kinsella

#14. I fancy that the Irish language must have 57 different words for 'rain', in the same way that Inuit has for 'snow'. If, in reality, this is not the case, then I'm really glad I've never bothered to learn Irish'. - Author: Stephen Price

#15. You've got to learn to stand your ground and," she flicked her feet in a little Irish stepdance and sang, "you've got to have faith, faith, faith."
My jaw dropped. "You're kidding me, right? You're dancing in the streets and quoting George Michael. I'm about to get eaten alive! - Author: A&E Kirk

#16. be gentle, not fragile. - Author: JaTawny Muckelvene Chatmon

#17. Even if I did speak Irish, I'd always be considered an outsider here, wouldn't I? I may learn the password but the language of the tribe will always elude me, won't it? The private core will always be ... hermetic, won't it? - Author: Brian Friel

#18. You choose sin. You practice sin. - Author: Billy Graham

#19. Every Irish person of my generation and earlier, we were raised Catholic and we'd have to learn it in school, we'd to learn the catechism by rote. - Author: Cillian Murphy

#20. Have you ever seen a one trick pony in the field so happy and free? If you've ever seen a one trick pony then you've seen me Have you ever seen a one-legged dog making his way down the street? If you've ever seen a one-legged dog then you've seen me. - Author: Bruce Springsteen