Quotes About Celts

#1. Cornwall, peopled mainly by Celts, but with an infusion of English blood, stands and always has stood apart from the rest of England, much, but in a less degree, as has Wales.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#2. The Welsh have everywhere adopted the Cymric tongue; they hug themselves in the belief that they are pure descendants of the ancient Britons, but in fact, they are rather Silurians than Celts.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#3. They couldn't abide the fact that the country was almost certainly founded by the Celts, who were just a little bit too close to the Irish for comfort.

Joe Queenan

#4. Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons, or Celts, Can't seem just to say anything is the thing it is but have to go out of their way to say that it is like something else.

Ogden Nash

#5. Unlike many other Celts, I cannot claim that Celtic was my first love but I can say that it will be my last love.

Jock Stein

#6. The Celts were fearless warriors because they wish to inculcate this as one of their leading tenets, that souls do not become extinct, but pass after death from one body to another ...

Julius Caesar

#7. As I understand it, the Celts venerated all sorts of plexus-type things: the seashore, dawn, dusk, the edge of the forest - anything that was neither here nor there, so to speak.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#8. My whole life, I've felt I was homesick for somewhere I'd never known.' She told me that in Britain, where she grew up, the Celts called it 'hiraeth' - a longing for home.

Kate Lord Brown

#9. In poetry, I have, since very young, loved poetry in translation. The Chinese, the French, the Russians, Italians, Indians and early Celts: the formality of the translator's voice, their measured breath and anxiety moves me as it lingers over the original.

Fanny Howe

#10. I know precisely what honor is, Heracles. Honor is the artifice kings sell the peasants' sons so that they may fight and die without pay. Honor is what drives a peaceful man to bloody vengeance. Honor is what drove the Celts to behead the children of the Apache Courts.
- The Egyptian God Bes

Jonathan Maas

#11. Despite what you may have been taught about Indians or Africans or ancient Celts, poor people are terrible stewards of their environment. For instance, if my kid were starving to death, I would happily feed her fresh panda.

Jonah Goldberg

#12. The Germans form one of the most important branches of the Indo-Germanic or Aryan race - a division of the human family which also includes the Hindoos, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, and the Slavonic tribes.

Bayard Taylor

#13. To the brave belong all things. - motto of the Celts and appears in Defender: Intrepid 1 and Hunter: Intrepid 2.

Chris Allen

#14. W if for Women. They're awful, mendacious,
Nasty and selfish, cruel and salacious,
As thievish as gypsies, more crazy than Celts
Be sure that you never fuck anything else

P. J. O'Rourke

#15. The early Celts lived in an enormous region, stretching from modern Turkey through eastern and central Europe (including much of modern day Switzerland, Austria, Germany and northern Italy), and westwards and northwards into much of Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium, Britain and Ireland.

Sharon Paice MacLeod

#16. The Hittites and Amorites were therefore mingled together in the mountains of Palestine like the two races which ethnologists tell us go to form the modern Kelt.

A.H. Sayce

#17. I can't think of any more powerful moment than when you stand on a stage.

Irving Azoff

#18. The world is shifting from a hegemonic era, where the United States dominated alone, to a multipolar system.

Najib Razak

#19. In the end, the overriding factor in whether or not you realize your dreams is going to be you. Not the world. YOU.

Russell Simmons

#20. Not everything I do is gossip or bedroom. To the contrary, I think that's just an easy label to dismiss me and to dismiss the new medium.

Matt Drudge

#21. A wounding tongue. I'm working on it. Perhaps its the Celt in me.

Alan Rickman

#22. Names are just our way of forgetting things.

Marty Rubin

#23. Frequently we do not leave the past behind. We clasp on to it. We dissect it, and let fears for the future, tempered by the past, unconsciously prevent us from taking up the task eternal.

Ray Simpson

#24. Doesn't matter if you fail to succeed. What matters is, if you fail to try.

Harsh Malik

#25. Four hours after leaving Kornah, we passed the reputed tomb of Ezra the prophet. At a distance and in the moonlight it looked handsome. There is a buttressed river wall, and above it some long flat-roofed buildings, the centre one surmounted by a tiled dome.

Isabella Bird

#26. Is the life you seek to take worth the one you could one day create? (Savitar)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#27. Really, really obscene hip-hop. I love it so much. It makes me laugh and then it makes me want to dance.

Natalie Portman

#28. I don't think anyone really says anything new.

James Taylor

#29. Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil

Arthur Conan Doyle

#30. If we finished our work, the teacher would say, 'Now don't read ahead.' But sometimes I hid the book I was reading behind my geography book and did read ahead. You can hide a lot behind a geography book.

Beverly Cleary

#31. Exquisitely embroidered tapestries lined the walls of Medb's bedroom, but their impact was somewhat reduced by the room's ambience. A musky odor with pungent accents of stale piss.

David H. Millar