Quotes About Irish Culture

#1. I'm a product of my Irish culture, and I could no more lose that than I could my sense of identity.

Gabriel Byrne

#2. Being Irish and a citizen of the world, has made me truly appreciate Irish culture, music and history. Whether you're first, second generation Irish or even with no connection to Ireland, you should visit in 2013 for a unique experience.

Liam Neeson

#3. The FBI had been a man's world - usually men of Irish or Italian heritage schooled by Jesuits and raised in a closed culture of police and priests.

Tim Weiner

#4. A man cannot do good before he is made good.

Martin Luther

#5. She was brought up strict Irish Catholic ... Protestants were evil, monstrous people and somehow probably contagious, and Katie grew up fearing them, praying to God she'd never see one.

Lisa Genova

#6. We are in here not to correct the deformation but to accustom ourselves to it:

Haruki Murakami

#7. To have come from Ireland no matter how long ago is to be of Ireland in some part forever.

Frank Delaney

#8. Be it in the rough-and-tumble world of inner-city politics or the bare-knuckle boxing ring, the Irish rightly earned their fightin' moniker.

Rashers Tierney

#9. The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture.

Ben Nicholson

#10. For a tiny speck in the Atlantic, Ireland has made an outsize contribution to world literature. It's a legacy we can all be proud of, one that would take many pages (or indeed a whole library of books) to recount in full.

Rashers Tierney

#11. Rather than knowing more, I think I've got more open-minded.

David Bailey

#12. Loving isn't about selecting only the good parts. It's about taking the whole and loving the lot.

Santa Montefiore

#13. Princeton is a wonderful little spot. A quaint and ceremonious village of puny demigods on stilts.

Albert Einstein

#14. Whether serving in the military, building industry, organizing politically, or making their way in any other part of American culture, the Irish were determined to create a free and prosperous life for themselves. This Irish-American struggle led to social and political progress for all Americans.

Rashers Tierney

#15. I didn't know my father very well; I only met him a few times.

Jordan Peele

#16. Art can teach without at all ceasing to be art.

C.S. Lewis

#17. The illicit Irish homemade spirit, poitin was frowned upon by the Catholic Church, which made its manufacture grave enough of a sin to require a bishop's absolution rather than that of the regular parish priest. Ah, the lengths the Irish will go to for "the demon drink!

Rashers Tierney

#18. The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

Alfred North Whitehead

#19. Because I think a lot of people felt like, ultimately - and this isn't the first time I've said this, so I'll bore you again with it - but ultimately it was ... I think it felt like homework a bit for people.

Will Arnett

#20. Irish and English are so widely separated in their mode of expression that nothing like a literal rendering from one language to the other is possible.

Robin Flower

#21. Desperation is the secret to my steady employment. I am not interested in downtime. I really like to keep working all the time and I always feel like I'm in the mail room of life; working up.

Henry Rollins

#22. Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.

Mahatma Gandhi

#23. On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.

Alexander Pope

#24. I've never taken the steps to be 'successful': I've never had a manager or signed to a publishing house.

J. Tillman

#25. The Irish way of telling a story is a complex and elaborate one, complete with wild exaggerations, a certain delight in improbable fantasy, and a heightened sense of drama.

Rashers Tierney

#26. I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing.

Michael Flatley

#27. I was the little sister he'd never had - and secretly, I'd always wanted to be so much more.

Rachel Van Dyken

#28. I love you like a brother, Stryder, but I swear there are times when I could strangle the very life out of you. (Zenobia)
'Tis a good thing you care for me then. Given my treatment, I shudder at what you would do to me should you decide to hate me. (Stryder)

Kinley MacGregor

#29. If Irish or Italian culture dies in America it really isn't that big a deal. They will still exist in Italy and Ireland. Not so with us. There is no other place. North America is our old country.

Janet Campbell Hale

#30. The original Guinness Brewery in Dublin has a 9,000-year lease on its property at a perpetual rate of 45 pounds per year--one of the best bargains in Irish commercial history!

Rashers Tierney

#31. James Joyce once called Guinness stout "the wine of Ireland." Indeed it's one of the most successful beers worldwide. Ten million glasses of this ambrosial liquid are consumed with great gusto each day.

Rashers Tierney