Quotes About Dublin City

#1. Dublin City was quiet when they reached the Waxwork Museum, as if it was holding its breath.

Derek Landy

#2. Solitude is good in the evening. Dublin is a quiet city when you get to a certain age, when your friends settle down and have kids. Nothing much happens here.

Colm Toibin

#3. And the Republican Party especially associates the market with the idea of progress, goodness, family, and points us toward the mall as an answer to all our personal dreams.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

#4. There's a ruthlessness to the city now that wasn't there before. I was in Dublin a few months ago, when we were shooting Breakfast on Pluto, and if I saw one kid throwing up on the street, I must have seen a hundred of them.

Liam Neeson

#5. I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.

Patrick Kavanagh

#6. Children, for whom suburban life was supposed to make wholesome little Johns and Wendys, became the acid-dropping, classroom-burning hippies of the 1960s.

Ronald Steel

#7. I am at home in Dublin, more than in any other city.

Louis MacNeice

#8. Cadiz is a city of magic, like Cracow or Dublin, to set the mind on fire at a turn of a corner ... The eye is continually fed, the imagination stirred, by a train of spectacles as charming as if they had been contrived.

Honor Tracy

#9. I feel at home up in the air, just like sailors do at sea and climbers do in the mountains.

Felix Baumgartner

#10. I've lived in other cities - Rome, Dublin, Mexico City - but I was born in New York City, and I always lived in those other places as a New Yorker.

Pete Hamill

#11. Dublin was an English city, one of the loveliest. The most Irish thing about it was the shifting drab flow of the poor people

Jan Morris

#12. When my mum first told me she got sick, I didn't cry. I probably cried over my mum's illness twice.

Jack Osbourne

#13. I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.

James Joyce

#14. No word of ignorance leaves no double thoughts on a plain page with a headline without extra lines of madness marked on it.

Auliq Ice

#15. Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.

Virginia Woolf