Quotes About St Patrick

#1. I do identify with St. Patrick, not just in name. He drove the snakes out of Ireland. I intend to drive the snakes out of the State House.

Deval Patrick

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

Tim Tharp

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Shane Leslie

#6. Despair was so familiar to me; it could be banished by the sight of a beautiful mannikin in the window. It could be dispelled by the spectacle of lights surrounding a tower. It could be lifted by the great ghostly shape of St. Patrick's coming into view. And then despair would come again.

Anne Rice

#7. They say there are only two kinds of people on St. Patrick's Day: the Irish, and the people that drive them home.

Conan O'Brien

#8. St Patrick was a Roman Briton of good family dwelling probably in the Severn valley.

Winston S. Churchill

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. We've never done a coordinated music effort. Everything else we've done has been around a holiday - Halloween, Mardi Gras, half way to Mardi Gras, St. Patrick's Day.

Craig Johnson

#14. St. Patrick ... one of the few saints whose feast day presents the opportunity to get determinedly whacked and make a fool of oneself all under the guise of acting Irish.

Charles Madigan

#15. I have a lot of fond memories of St. Patrick's Day in Chicago. Vague, but fond.

Joel Murray

#16. I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every day.

Tamara Tunie

#17. St.Patrick's Day is named for St. Patrick, the first guy to feed Guinness to a snake.

Conan O'Brien

#18. I'm Irish and I was born on St. Patrick's day. I'm lucky sevens.

Billy Corgan

#19. I went to a Catholic University and there's something about being a Catholic-American. You know, St. Patrick's Day is, I'm Irish-Catholic. There's alcoholism in my family. It's like I've got to be Catholic, right?

Jim Gaffigan

#20. St. Patrick's Day is the fourth biggest drinking day in America. It's not the biggest. It's right behind New Year's Eve, Fourth of July, or any Secret Service party.

David Letterman

#21. Do you suppose it's true, that St. Patrick was a parselmouth, and his muggle friends never knew?

Dave Beard

#22. It is St. Patrick's Day. And here in Scranton, that is a huge deal. It is the closest that the Irish will ever get to Christmas.

Michael Scott

#23. [St. Patrick] was a terror to any snake that came in his path, whether it was the cold, slimy reptile sliding along the ground or the more dangerous snake that oppresses men through false teachings. And he drove the snakes out of the minds of men, snakes of superstition and brutality and cruelty.

Arthur Brisbane

#24. St. Patrick's Day is a holy day for Roman Catholics in Ireland to pray and a day for drunk people to vomit with their pants down in New Jersey.

Margot Leitman

#25. And He watched over me before I knew Him and before I learned sense or even distinguished between good and evil.

St Patrick

#26. I shall ne'er chase rainbows again,
Knowing no pot o' gold awaits at the end.
My Irish treasure is not there.
For ye, my love, abide with me here.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#27. I pray to God to give me perseverance and to deign that I be a faithful witness to Him to the end of my life for my God.

St Patrick

#28. Be sure to wear green
on March seventeen,
or else Irish leprechauns
pinch your bones clean!

Richelle E. Goodrich

#29. Imagine if we were all magical leprechauns, and every wish ever made on a four-leaf clover obliged us to help others obtain their wishes. Now imagine if people simply lived like this were true.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#30. Be still and know that I am God.
Be still and know that I am.
Be still and know.
Be still.
Be.

St Patrick

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

Edward St. Aubyn

#32. No one gets a break from their reality.

Mathew St. Patrick

#33. Could one have a time-release epiphany, an epiphany without realizing it had happened? Or were they always trumpeted by angels and preceded by temporary blindness, Patrick wondered, as he walked down the corridor in the wrong direction.

Edward St. Aubyn

#34. Wearing of the green
On March seventeen.
Shamrocks and Irish folk
Take o'er the scene!

Richelle E. Goodrich

#35. I was thinking that a life is just the history of what we give our attention to,' said Patrick. 'The rest is packaging.

Edward St. Aubyn

#36. It's simply this:
the Irish kiss,
a snog o' bliss,
be blessed luck
from any miss.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#37. Try as one might to live on the edge, thought Patrick, getting into the other lift, there was no point in competing with people who believed what they saw on television.

Edward St. Aubyn