Quotes About Irish Pride

#1. As in some Irish houses, where things are so-so,
One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show;
But, for eating a rasher of what they take pride in,
They'd as soon think of eating the pan it is fried in.

Oliver Goldsmith

#2. Revenge is a dish which taste best when served cold.

Mario Puzo

#3. Don't ever let no one tell you, you ain't beautiful

Eminem

#4. I never imagined when I began writing in the early 1960s I'd become professional and my life would be transformed.

Sue Townsend

#5. Pride should be reserved for something you achieve or obtain on your own, not something that happens by accident of birth. Being Irish isn't a skill ... it's a fucking genetic accident. You wouldn't say I'm proud to be 5'11; I'm proud to have a pre-disposition for colon cancer.

George Carlin

#6. For those of us who are fortunate to share an Irish ancestry, we take great pride in the contributions that Irish-Americans.

John F. Kerry

#7. But to be hanged - is that not unendurable? Even so, when a man feels that it is reasonable, he goes off and hangs himself.

Epictetus

#8. No one is ever a victim, although your conquerors would have you believe in your own victimhood. How else could theu conquer you?

Barbara Marciniak

#9. I question myself every day. That's what I still find motivating about this. I don't have the answers, I don't pretend that I do just because I won the match. Just keep fighting and maybe something good happens.

Andre Agassi

#10. If I am always standing at the bottom of the mountain longingly looking up, in all probability it is because I have heeded the pillaging dogma of mediocrity which persistently tells me that the dream is not worth the climb.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#11. Don't try to live forever - You can't! But you can do things that will live forever.-RVM

R.v.m.

#12. But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung ...

Vita Sackville-West

#13. Memory is like a curse. We fall into eternity, and memory is a weight that keeps pulling us to where we can never go back to.

Jose Luis Peixoto

#14. We have forgotten to observe. Instead of observing, we do things according to patterns.

Andrei Tarkovsky