Quotes About Patrick

#1. We, the heirs of Saint Patrick, we who kept alive the Christian faith and the writings of ancient Rome when most of the world had sunk under the barbarians, we who gave the Saxons their education are to be taught a lesson in Christianity by the English?

Edward Rutherfurd

#2. I think we felt the pressure more at first than this time around. But still you don't want to let anyone down. I never even met Patrick until we had a Christmas party at Ian McKellen's house on the first movie and then I didn't see him again until the premiere.

Rebecca Romijn

#3. Patrick Swayze is a fantastic man and an inspiration to work with. He is a fearless cowboy type and a movie icon.

Travis Fimmel

#4. People think they are individuals because they use the word "I" so often, Patrick commented.

Edward St. Aubyn

#5. I never would have seen Chelsea reach up, take Logan's face in her hands, and kiss him. So the off again was definitely on again. And I knew then that Patrick was very wrong about my heart, because if it had actually been an encyclopedia I could have watched it all with perfect composure.

Marni Bates

#6. I haven't seen a professional player come out of New York in over 20 years since my brother Patrick came out. Blake spent a few years in Harlem, but he moved to Connecticut when he was a kid.

John McEnroe

#7. I haven't had a home in so long," he said softly. "I - I want a home with you. I don't want to leave you when you're hurt, or fragile, Patrick. I want to be a guy worth making a home for.

Amy Lane

#8. Can you get any better than Patrick Dempsey? I don't think so!

Ellen Pompeo

#9. Overhearing our conversation, Patrick steps closer, stroking the flogger up and down my arm. It feels so soft with the potential for pain clearly hidden. "I promise I won't hurt you. Well, unless you want me to.

Lainie Suzanne

#10. Patrick wanted someone else. I wanted him to be happy, but why couldn't he be happy with me? I knew the answer. He couldn't choose me.

Ruta Sepetys

#11. He looked like he might break out into an irate merengue any minute. Patrick Swayze reincarnated.

Kate Meader

#12. My girlfriend looks a little like Charlize Theron ... and a lot like Patrick Ewing.

Zach Galifianakis

#13. We had a bad summer here, my friend. Local folks keep it as quiet as they can - even the newspaper doesn't play it up - but there was some nasty work. Murders. Half a dozen at least. Kids. Found one down in the Barrens just recently. Patrick Hockstetter, his name was. All decayed.

Stephen King

#14. Emily, Megan, Jack, Luna, Patrick ... they helped me learn what true friendship is. It's never perfect, but it is important.

Sarah Ockler

#15. Making it [St. Patrick's Day] a great day for the Irish, but just an ok day if you're looking for a quiet tavern to talk, read or have a white wine spritzer.

Jon Stewart

#16. I scowled. I could resist it all I wanted, but I did understand what he was trying to explain. How sometimes he pieces of who you thought you were didn't add up to who you really were, like with me not standing up for Patrick when he wore those pants.

Lauren Myracle

#17. When I was seven years old, I fell in love with a series published by Bobbs-Merrill called 'The Childhood of Famous Americans.' In it, historical figures like Clara Barton, Nancy Hanks, Elias Howe, Patrick Henry, and dozens more came to life for me as children.

Ann Hood

#18. If you've got Mystique as your girlfriend the fun you could have in bed - I've just imagined X-Men 3 might open with me in bed with Patrick Stewart.

Ian McKellen

#19. Give me liberty or give me death.' A human named Patrick Henry said that. I wonder if the Yeerks knew before they came to conquer Earth that humans said things like that. I wonder if the Yeerks knew what they were getting into. -Aximili Esgarrouth Isthill

Katherine Applegate

#20. The shamrock is a religious symbol. St. Patrick said the leaves represented the trinity: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. That's why four leaf clovers are so lucky, you get a bonus Jesus.

Stephen Colbert

#21. I felt sucker-punched. It wasn't God's fault Patrick had been treated worse than dirt, as I'd let myself believe. It was mine.

Lauren Myracle

#22. Don't worry." He laughed. "I'm right here. I won't let you go." - Patrick

Jess Rothenberg

#23. There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff - something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.

Patrick Swayze

#24. Patrick Kavanagh put it, preparing for life rather than living it.

John O'Donohue

#25. Some of you ... have never read a Patrick O'Brian novel. I beseech you to start now. Start with Master and Commander, which should be available in paperback from your nearest bookseller. And if he-or she-does not have a copy, then beat the wretched fellow.

Kevin Myers

#26. Hope, Patrick knew, was the exact measure of distance
between himself and the person who'd come for help.

Jodi Picoult

#27. 'The Chimney Sweeper's Boy' began differently from any previous book I'd written. It actually derives from a story a friend - the novel's dedicatee, Patrick Maher - told me.

Ruth Rendell

#28. One pleasant surprise was when I interviewed Butch Patrick. I was expecting this bitter old drunk, and instead he had a total sense of humor about his career and his drinking and drug problem.

Gilbert Gottfried

#29. We will live to see the day that St. Patrick's Cathedral is a child-care center and the pope is no longer a disgrace to the skirt that he has on.

Gloria Steinem

#30. It is Patrick the Legend, of course, who is most engaging and comes to us as something of a happy Celtic party monster.

Charles Madigan

#31. Cheap jokes and dirty minds." Patrick

Leta Blake

#32. I heard recently that I used to date Patrick Swayze.

Davey Havok

#33. My name is Patrick Fitzgerald ... I like to tear the tops off small animals.

Karl Rove

#34. I remember watching SpongeBob and laughing as he and Patrick irritated Squidward. Mom

Apryl Baker

#35. The Oscars are this Sunday. Host Neil Patrick Harris said he hopes the broadcast will include a 'Kanye moment.' Unfortunately a Kanye moment may not be possible because that would require a black person to be at the Oscars.

Conan O'Brien

#36. Into the soul of every student I would have instilled the patriotic fervor of Patrick Henry.

David O. McKay

#37. I'm going to speak to professor Madoc about this."
"OK," said Patrick. Mick seemed disappointed that he wasn't more worried by the prospect.
"All right, you can get out now."
"OK," said Patrick and didn't go.

Belinda Bauer

#38. Patrick Cheng's Radical Love is not only an excellent introduction to LGBT theology but an important contribution to the discipline of theology and the life of the church. It is a must read for anyone who cares about the health of the church and theology today.

James H. Cone

#39. Roughly 1 in 6 Americans have Irish blood. I'd say it's probably safe to assume that the average Irish-American who only comes out on St. Patrick's Day has no idea of the sort of economic powerhouse Ireland has become.

Scott McClellan

#40. Even if I hadn't been cast as Doctor Who, my acting would probably have been influenced by William Hartnell or Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, and all of the other guys. Because those were the actors that I really watched every moment of, as opposed to Laurence Olivier.

Peter Capaldi

#41. On the other hand, who knows what I know or whether what I know is even true? [Patrick Beckett]

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#42. Now I'm just known as McDreamy, I've lost all identity as Patrick Dempsey, I'm now McDreamy.

Patrick Dempsey

#43. What do you want, Patrick?" she sighs.
"I just want peace, love, friendship, understanding," I say dispassionately.

Bret Easton Ellis

#44. ECassChoosesPikachu: Patrick's new favorite joke: What do you call an alligator in a vest? An "investigator" HA!
JoseyInHeels to ECassChoosesPikachu: The kid needs better jokes
SeanCassinova to ECassChoosesPikachu: MY NEPHEW IS BRILLIANT!

L. H. Cosway

#45. I'm hoping for a broadsword," Patrick said, crossing his fingers. "We can go all Game of Thrones on Arkansas." "I've always hated Arkansas," Ben considered. "We all do, Ben. We all hate Arkansas.

Clayton Smith

#46. Initially with The Butcher Boy, there was this kid growing up in this strange, weird environment that I remember from when I was a kid. And Patrick's vision was so complete there.

Neil Jordan

#47. There's so much proscription in the lives of young people, and it's so vital to have a place that says, look, here are the doors onto the world and amazingly, you're free to choose any one you like. - Patrick Ness on Libraries

Patrick Ness

#48. I design differently because I am Patrick Kelly, and Patrick Kelly is black

Patrick Kelly

#49. You won't kill me, you stupid worthless bitch. But you best believe that we will kill you. We'll make your friend's death look as cute as puppies and kittens compared to yours. It's just too bad that you won't be able to witness it. Bummer." - Patrick Calveri

Tina Nelson

#50. You look at Patrick Vieira and Emmanuel Petit at Arsenal or Roy Keane at Man United, and they are players that can do everything.

Jamie Redknapp

#51. I am Patrick, yes a sinner and indeed untaught; yet I am established here in Ireland where I profess myself bishop. I am certain in my heart that 'all that I am,' I have received from God. So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God.

Saint Patrick

#52. The mission of Patrick Henry College was to attract and cultivate academic stars from the ranks of home-schooled evangelicals, then send them off on graduation day to 'shape the culture and take back the nation,' in the words of a common home-schooling rallying cry.

Nina Easton

#53. Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.

P. J. O'Rourke

#54. He puppeteers really responded to it. Patrick Bistrow really responded to it, it's great fun to do improve comedy with puppets.

Brian Henson

#55. I don't worry about playing basketball; that comes natural. I just want to have fun. David Robinson, Patrick Ewing, Michael Jordanthis is like spring break in the ghetto.

Charles Barkley

#56. I was seeing more stars than Patrick Moore; he didn't half give me a sore fucking whack on the nut.

Stephen Richards

#57. Patrick Ewing used to be much better in every aspect of the game.

Bill Walton

#58. My most memorable dunk, that I think about very, very often, is the Patrick Ewing dunk.

Michael Jordan

#59. Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'It's like a homepage without a scroll button?

Dennis Lehane

#60. It was 11:04 when Patrick walked through the door that final night almost a dozen years ago. I remember

Kristin Harmel

#61. They gave Saint Patrick his own day and what did he do but run out a bunch of snakes. Why, Thomas Edison lit up the world. If it hadn't been for him we'd all still be sitting here in the dark, with nothing but a candle,

Fannie Flagg

#62. Patrick walked in dressed in an utterly unmentionable bathrobe. I was pretty sure that Disney wouldn't have approved of what their cartoon characters were doing on that dark blue satin background. On the other hand, I was really glad he had on the bathrobe.

Rachel Caine

#63. I saw a man this morning Who did not wish to die Patrick Shaw-Stewart

Hugh Laurie

#64. When I was in kindergarten, I had one line in a little play. I said, I am Patrick Potato and this is my cousin, Mrs. Tomato, and I heard laughter. I wanted to be an actress from that moment on.

Doris Roberts

#65. As Daniel Patrick Moynihan said, "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

Chris Rodda

#66. Lewis and I played my-God-how-tacky-is-that? with Patrick's collection of objets d'crap, finally coming to the conclusion that only a going-out-of-business sale at a whorehouse could really explain a lot of it.

Rachel Caine

#67. That's one of Patrick's favorite theories. He read somewhere that people remember stuff better if they read or think about it right before they fall asleep.

Linda Sue Park

#68. There are two texts: one from Patrick and one from her mother. Patrick: asdhaosihdkqebrkb. (Butt dial? Or incredibly drunk? Ava doesn't care.)

Elin Hilderbrand

#69. Just remember the words of Patrick Henry - 'Kill me or let me live.'

Bill Peterson

#70. Oh, don't be afraid of being a skeptic, Patrick," Elsie said. "It's the duty of each generation to examine the 'wisdom' passed on by the previous generation. We'd

Tom Phelan

#71. Patrick said that the problem was that since everything has happened already, it makes it hard to break new ground.

Stephen Chbosky

#72. I, Patrick Lien, son of General Brendon Lien, do hereby swear my life to helping Princess Wilhelmina Korte reclaim her kingdom, no matter the cost.

Jodi Meadows

#73. I ran into Neal Patrick Harris recently. We were in something called The Purple People Eater. He was maybe 10, but he still remembered it as the worst experience of his life!

Peggy Lipton

#74. If you feel tired midway through, give Neil Patrick Harris a Red Bull and throw some sheet music at him.

Steve Martin

#75. And to my son Patrick, without whose assistance (as P.G.Wodehouse said somewhere of his daughter) this book would have been completed in half the time, all love and all joy.

David Bentley Hart

#76. People use the word "natural" ... What is natural to me is these botanical species which interact directly with the nervous system. What I consider artificial is 4 years at Harvard, and the Bible, and Saint Patrick's cathedral, and the Sunday school teachings.

Timothy Leary

#77. But Patrick smells good, and he feels right, and keeping him happy and safe is something Will wants too.

Leta Blake

#78. The bestseller charts, a sure indicator of public taste, tell us with relentless frequency that Marian Keyes or Jeffrey Archer is a better author, by some dizzying six-figure sum, both in numbers of copies and money, than, say, J. M. Coetzee or Patrick White. Are they right?

Neel Mukherjee

#79. Boys," said Amelia as she and Patrick stepped forward with the last gift, "Can you never give anyone anything useful?"
At the same time Danny and Mason broke out into grins and said, "But those are useful." Amelia shook her head, her blond curls cascading beautifully around her.

Micalea Smeltzer

#80. No! Don't ask Patrick about sex." "He's a doctor," Olivia goes on. "He knows how bodies work." God, does he ever know how bodies work.

Leta Blake

#81. So you can't compare the present with the past, not really, because you're a different person than you were [when Patrick was alive]. You have to look forward to the things you want, not back at the things you once had.

Kristin Harmel

#82. You've always needed to see something to believe it--sometimes you lack faith, my dear. Go take a look." Patrick

A. Robert Allen

#83. At Arsenal me and Patrick (Vieira) didn't want to face Scholes. We would avoid him.

Emmanuel Petit

#84. I loved going to the Knicks because we won the Atlantic Division championship. We went from winning 21 games or 19 games to winning 52 games in a short period of time. I loved coaching Patrick Ewing and Charles Oakley and all those guys.

Rick Pitino

#85. I certainly liked performing [Patrick Bateman], but it was because he thinks he's so [bloody] cool and just the [stuff], but is really such a cheesy dork.

Christian Bale

#86. I think I grew up that night. It might have been Patrick that lost his virginity, but it was me that lost my innocence.

T.A. Webb

#87. It would be nice if Patrick Murphy was half as upset about Democrats removing God and Jerusalem from their platform, or booing when they were added back in, as he is pretending to be about our new tv ad which simply points out what happened.

Allen West

#88. Before the Great Chicago Fire, no one took notice of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, two Irish immigrants who lived with their five children on the city's West Side.

Karen Abbott

#89. Patrick had left behind some writings, and one of his most famous works was something many of us learned in school called "Saint Patrick's Breastplate," a kind of a cross between a hymn and a poem.

Frank Delaney

#90. That's what the prom is - St. Patrick's Day for the young.

Tim Tharp

#91. Unmute it. Stun me with your brilliance." Patrick

Leta Blake

#92. The legend goes that St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland. I was thinking ... that must be hard to put all the tiny seatbelts on all the snakes.

Ellen DeGeneres

#93. Thank you, Patrick - " but she spoke too softly,

Joyce Carol Oates

#94. The prime minister of Ireland will be celebrating St. Patrick's Day at the White House. So finally the Secret Service agents will have a drinking buddy.

Conan O'Brien

#95. Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.

Shane Leslie

#96. Several politicians and wives of politicians have been public about their experiences with depression or bipolar illness, including Lawton Chiles, Patrick Kennedy, Tipper Gore and Kitty Dukakis. Each made a tremendous difference by doing so.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#97. Patrick Stewart was the first internet sex symbol without hair but pileggi always thought it was him.

David Duchovny

#98. I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.

Saint Patrick

#99. Live your life", Patrick said, "dont endure it

Kate Atkinson

#100. I think of Dermot Healy as the heir to Patrick Kavanagh.

Seamus Heaney