Quotes About Irish Families

#1. My wife and I both come from Irish families. There are two kinds of Irish families: the hitting kind and the kidding kind. If you're fortunate - and both of us are - you come from the kidding kind of Irish family.

P. J. O'Rourke

#2. I grew up in a world that was clannish - old Tasmanian-Irish families with big extended families.

Richard Flanagan

#3. Probably look like fucking Captain Hook.

Helen Harper

#4. The ground shifted again into an ocean of unknowns, a dark current yanking at a fundamental law she'd forgotten: there was no truth without a lie.

Emma Raveling

#5. When I met Oprah, the first thing I thought was, 'She is the most amazing hugger ever.'

Darby Stanchfield

#6. The value of just one soul is greater than any single thing upon this earth. For there can be nothing greater than raising a child in preparation for that journey back to where he came from, a place where his immortal father lives, a place known as heaven, a place called home.

Richard B. Pelzer

#7. Life is God's art.

Larry Norman

#8. I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.

Samantha Bond

#9. When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity.

Gerry Adams

#10. It is a most repulsive quality, indeed,' said he. 'Oftentimes very convenient, no doubt, but never pleasing. There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.'
'Not till the reserve ceases towards oneself; and then the attraction may be the greater.

Jane Austen

#11. But by virtue of our baptism, Peter Akinola and I are brothers in Christ and one day we are going to be in heaven together, so we might as well learn to get along here because we will have to get along there. God won't have it any other way.

Gene Robinson

#12. It's always necessary to know when a stage of one's life has ended. If you stubbornly cling to it after the need has passed,you lose the joy and meaning of the rest. And you risk being shaken to your senses by God.

Paulo Coelho

#13. I only wanna go up the steps toward a different level of stardom. The BET Awards was one of those steps, the VMAs was another huge step. And the next step, eventually, hopefully, would be the Oscars.

Kevin Hart

#14. I've always thought you have to live life looking forwards, not backwards. I've had no interest at all in who my ancestors are.

Jeremy Paxman