Small Irish Quotes

#1. When Edna O'Brien's first novel, 'The Country Girls,' was published in 1960, her family and neighbors in the small Irish village where she was born tossed copies into a bonfire expressly set for that horrifying purpose.

Alan Cheuse

#2. The best buy by way of management is brains-at any price.

Malcolm Forbes

#3. It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people.

John Bright

#4. The Pledge of Allegiance says " ... with liberty and justice for all." What part of "all" don't you understand?

Patricia Schroeder

#5. A few weeks before the jubilee began in 2002, Queen Elizabeth died, and the public outpouring of grief and affection, with hundreds of thousands of people queuing for hours to pass by her coffin, showed how widely and deeply loved she was.

William Shawcross

#6. I wanna open a Jamaican/Irish/Spanish small plate breakfast restaurant and call it Tapas the Morning to Ja.

Harris Wittels

#7. If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?

Billy Wilder

#8. I'm the father of two boys and two girls, so I'm more an emotional wreck than a mushball.

Mark Wahlberg

#9. It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stands as many hands high, according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.

Charles Dickens

#10. Now see, a lot of critics are saying Arnold can't get elected because he's just an ambitious guy with a famous name, who doesn't know anything about running the government. Didn't hurt George Bush.

Jay Leno

#11. We don't hide crazy," I said. "We put it on the porch and let it entertain the neighbors.

Nick Wilgus

#12. Ireland?" "Small wet place across the Irish Sea," Barry offered kindly. "Where they drink a lot?" Lisa said faintly. "And they never stop talking. That's the place.

Marian Keyes

#13. If there is a distinctive Irish experience, it is one of division, exacerbated by the fact that division in a country so small seems perverse. But the scale doesn't matter.

Denis Donoghue

#14. We should hold abusers - and no one else - responsible for the damage they inflict.

Leslie Morgan Steiner

#15. Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space.

John McGahern

#16. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small.

Charles A. Beard

#17. The spiritual quest is not some added benefit to our life, something you embark on if you have the time and inclination. We are spiritual beings on an earthly journey. Our spirituality makes up our beingness.

John Bradshaw

#18. The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out his hands and looking up at the blue sky, asked his mother how such a thing was possible. Fuck off, she said.

Samuel Beckett

#19. The greatest weapon in the world ... is ridicule.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

#20. I;ll always put up with you, my love. Forever. You can't get rid of me.

Kahlen Aymes