Irish Mothers Quotes

And all those boys of Europe born in those times, and thereabouts those times, Russian, French, Belgian, Serbian, Irish, English, Scottish, Welsh, Italian, Prussian, German, Austrian, Turkish – and Canadian, Australian, American, Zulu, Gurkha, Cossack, and all the rest – their fate was written in a ferocious chapter in the book of life, certainly. Those millions of mothers and their million gallons of mother's milk, millions of instances of small talk and baby talk, beatings and kisses, ganseys and shoes, piled up in history in great ruined heaps, with a loud and broken music, human stories told for nothing, for ashes, for death's amusement, flung on the mighty scrapheap of souls, all those million boys in all their humours to be milled by the millstones of a coming war. ~ Sebastian Barry

All sorts of efforts were made to populate the Floridas - with anyone: Huguenots, Bermudians, Irish, Germans, Swiss, Scottish Highlanders, even some of the prostitutes being rehabilitated in London's Magdalen House. Sir Alexander Grant, who dreamed up the idea of transporting the prostitutes to Florida, confessed, with not exactly stunning insight, "Tis true they are not virgins"; nevertheless, he said, they would surely make splendid wives and mothers for such as were likely to live in a place like Florida.5 ~ Bernard Bailyn

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. ~ Winston S. Churchill

Here's to our wives and girlfriends ... may they never meet! ~ Groucho Marx

The Irish way of telling a story is a complex and elaborate one, complete with wild exaggerations, a certain delight in improbable fantasy, and a heightened sense of drama. ~ Rashers Tierney

Whether serving in the military, building industry, organizing politically, or making their way in any other part of American culture, the Irish were determined to create a free and prosperous life for themselves. This Irish-American struggle led to social and political progress for all Americans. ~ Rashers Tierney

The English and Americans dislike only some Irish
the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers
the ones that think. ~ Brendan Behan

Drop by Bell's for an Irish Kiss anytime. The best in England ~ JoAnne Kenrick

Cork-born Mother Jones was renowned as a dramatic orator who relished props, curses, and all kinds of attention-getting tactics--sound at all Irish to you? She exaggerated her age, referring to strikers not too much younger than herself as "my boys" and donning frumpish costumes to emphasize her "motherly appearance. ~ Rashers Tierney

Scarlett O'Hara's father, Thomas, is an Irish immigrant who names his plantation Tara, after the home of the High Kings in Ireland. In an appealing nod to the "luck of the Irish," we read that Thomas O'Hara won his lands in a card game! ~ Rashers Tierney

The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet. ~ Oliver Herford

I wish the Irish had never invented whiskey," Pat said. Mr. O'Malley smirked, "The Irish didn't invent it. God did. It was his way of keepin' the Irish from takin' over the world. ~ Ashlyn Chase

Let the Moon and the Stars pour their healing light on you... ~ Irish Blessing

Mothers are the fountain of creation ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Let justice be done tho the heavens fall. ~ Michael Davitt

My, you do like to dominate ~ JoAnne Kenrick

He brightened. "Are you Irish then?"
"My last name is McNally. I'm as Irish as Paddy's pig. ~ Ashlyn Chase

When I get a very generous introduction like that I explain that I'm emotionally moved, but on the other hand I'm Irish and the Irish are very emotionally moved. My mother is Irish and she cries during beer commercials. ~ Barry McCaffrey

The illicit Irish homemade spirit, poitin was frowned upon by the Catholic Church, which made its manufacture grave enough of a sin to require a bishop's absolution rather than that of the regular parish priest. Ah, the lengths the Irish will go to for "the demon drink! ~ Rashers Tierney

In the mid-nineteenth century, Jeremiah Curtin, an Irish-American who had learned Irish, traveled throughout the Irish-speaking enclaves in Connacht and discovered hundreds of previously unrecorded stories. He recorded them in their original language and greatly advanced the study of Irish folklore. At ~ Ryan Hackney

It's often said that "the Irish built America. The truth is, not only did they build it, they also manufactured, repaired, and cleaned it, especially in the decades before and after the potato famine. ~ Rashers Tierney

The original Guinness Brewery in Dublin has a 9,000-year lease on its property at a perpetual rate of 45 pounds per year--one of the best bargains in Irish commercial history! ~ Rashers Tierney

The problem with being Irish ... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times. ~ Roddy Doyle

For a tiny speck in the Atlantic, Ireland has made an outsize contribution to world literature. It's a legacy we can all be proud of, one that would take many pages (or indeed a whole library of books) to recount in full. ~ Rashers Tierney

The typical Irish peasant ate about 10 pounds of potatoes each day and soon towered in physical size over their rural English equivalents who mainly ate bread. ~ Rashers Tierney

Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met. ~ Marguerite Duras

You can have Irish identity in the north and also have your Irish passport. ~ Seamus Heaney

I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that. ~ Van Morrison

I was court-martialed in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. ~ Thomas Hardy

God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers. ~ Will Leamon

Left alone in a dark room with a pile of money, the Irish decided what they really wanted to do with it was buy Ireland. From each other. An Irish economist named Morgan Kelly, whose estimates of Irish bank losses have been the most prescient, has made a back-of-the-envelope calculation that puts the property-related losses of all Irish banks at roughly 106 billion euros. (Think $10.6 trillion.) At the rate money flows into the Irish treasury, Irish bank losses alone would absorb every penny of Irish taxes for the next four years. ~ Michael Lewis

It's simply this:
the Irish kiss,
a snog o' bliss,
be blessed luck
from any miss. ~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Her smile increased. She had perfect white regular teeth; Irish, Juliana decided. Only Irish blood could give that jawline such femininity. ~ Philip K. Dick

Mothers are generally starvers or feeders ~ Fiona Wood

Most of the first voluntary Irish immigrants came from Ulster in the north of Ireland. These immigrants were generally, although not exclusively, Protestants. They were known as "Scotch-Irish" or "Scots Irish, ~ Ryan Hackney

I've always been conscious of the fact that there aren't enough Irish voices on British television compared to the amount of Irish people who live there. ~ Chris O'Dowd

Some mothers are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together ~ Pearl S. Buck

May the hinges of our friendship never grow rusty. ~ Irish Toast

I've heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke. ~ James Nesbitt

It's better to spend money like there's no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there's no money. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

Do not resent growing old, many are denied the privilege. ~ Irish Proverb

My parents are Irish, my grandparents are Irish, my great-grandparents are Irish. I was born in England; my blood is Irish. ~ Brian McDermott

I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess. ~ Gregory Peck

Being Irish means you belong to the clan. It's what you feel. They feel Irish. ~ Martin Naughton

My Irish derivation has nothing to do with me. Why should it? ~ Carroll O'Connor

Ya game is fine, but ya booze-eyes are a problem. Not like ya ta drink this much. I reckon ya banjo'd, so ya are. ~ JoAnne Kenrick

I always gravitate towards anything from Ireland. With Irish lit, I love the use of language, but also in many instances, the Irish writers are writing about people and circumstances that I can relate to. ~ Daniel Woodrell

I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids! ~ Arianna Huffington

Common sense. Mothers are the last riddle, the worst horror, the only consolation. ~ Kiana Davenport

The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad,
For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad. ~ G.K. Chesterton

In life, we all have a cross to bear and a unique story to tell. We just hope that someone will take the time to listen. ~ Greg McVicker

Best things about mothers, everyone has got the best one! ~ Nitya Prakash

I've played a lot of mothers in my movies. ~ Vera Farmiga

Both my parents were Irish, and the Irish word for "suntan" is "burn. ~ Mira Grant

I have a thing for red-haired Irish boys, as we know. ~ Sandra Bullock

Because the media always serve up heroes and villians, there had to be the terrible mothers, the anti-Madonnas, the hideous counterexamples good mothers were meant to revile. We regret to report that nearly all of these women were African American and were disproportionately featured as failed mothers in news stories about "crack babies," single, teen mothers, and welfare mothers. ~ Susan J. Douglas

There's no need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down. ~ Irish Proverb

I'm proud to be Irish. ~ Kelli O'Hara

Being Irish and a citizen of the world, has made me truly appreciate Irish culture, music and history. Whether you're first, second generation Irish or even with no connection to Ireland, you should visit in 2013 for a unique experience. ~ Liam Neeson

I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage where I come from. ~ Brad Pitt

All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them. ~ Boris Pasternak

* An Irish good-bye is when you leave a party or gathering without telling anyone. Highly recommended. ~ Sarah Knight

Irish tory employers hid[e] their sweatshops behind orange flags, and Irish home rule landlords us[e] the green sunburst of Erin to cloak their rack-renting in the festering slums of our Irish towns. ~ James Connolly

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you. ~ Brendan Behan

Mothers are so important. I came across a cable network exec who once told me they don't matter. Well, I disagree. Mothers matter a lot. Without mothers, there wouldn't be people. And mothers watch a lot of the programs on that cable network. No wonder why that network is barely surviving. - Strong by Kailin Gow on Mothers, Knowing Your Viewers, and Strong Leadership ~ Kailin Gow

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Educated mothers are 50 percent more likely to immunize their children than mothers with no schooling. ~ Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Let us acknowledge the magnitude of Motherhood, by simply honoring all mothers - past & present. ~ Eleesha

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever. [speaking about the Irish] ~ Sigmund Freud

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

When's the last time you walked by a pub in Dublin and heard Irish music? When's the last time you ordered a coffee and heard an Irish accent? ~ Michael Flatley

As the old saw goes, the Irish songs are full of happy wars and unhappy lovers. ~ Rob Sheffield

Love revealed, love laid down, love spent. ~ Irish Jesuits

The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out. ~ Jack Charlton

Ireland, it's the one place on earth that heaven has kissed with melody, mirth, and meadow and mist. ~ Irish Blessing

Most of my jokes are racist - usually about the Irish. ~ Frank Carson

A praying mother is more precious and valuable than all the riches in the world. ~ Violet James

I know what it's like to struggle and to have those concerns that all mothers have. ~ Ann Romney

Pieces of your heart broke every day when you were a mother. ~ Dianna Hardy

I'm just a loud Irish guy. ~ Bill O'Reilly

Flaws are beautiful differences that have been wrongly considered. ~ Erin Forbes

The phrase "the violent bear it away" fascinated the 20th century Irish-American storyteller Flannery O'Connor, who used it as the title of one of her novels. O'Connor's surname connects her to an Irish royal family descended from Conchobor (pronounced "Connor"), the prehistoric king of Ulster who was foster father to Cuchulainn and "husband" of the unwilling Derdriu. In the western world, the antiquity of Irish lineages is exceeded only by that of the Jews. ~ Thomas Cahill

As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be mothers. ~ Natalie Dormer

Behind her gentle character, the strength of armor was found. ~ Erin Forbes

When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious. ~ Edna O'Brien

Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all. ~ Diane Lane

In becoming an Irishman, Patrick wedded his world to theirs, his faith to their life…Patrick found a way of swimming down to the depths of the Irish psyche and warming and transforming Irish imagination – making it more humane and more noble while keeping it Irish." (161) ~ Thomas Cahill

I'm Irish as hell: Kelly on one side, Shanley on the other. My father had been born on a farm in the Irish Midlands. He and his brothers had been shepherds there, cattle and sheep, back in the early 1920s. I grew up surrounded by brogues and Irish music, but stayed away from the old country till I was over 40. I just couldn't own being Irish. ~ John Patrick Shanley

Mothers were much too sharp. They were like dogs. Buster always sensed when anything was out of the ordinary, and so did mothers. Mothers and dogs both had a kind of second sight that made them see into people's minds and know when anything unusual was going on. ~ Enid Blyton

I get e-mails from mothers asking me to call their daughters for a date. I have a great life. ~ Shaun White

I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers. ~ Ogden Nash

May there be a generation of children on the children of your children. ~ Irish Toast

I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true. ~ Anne Enright

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being. ~ Evan Bayh

I've never seen a nation more quick at finding joy in a sad situation than the Irish at a funeral. ~ E.A. Bucchianeri

It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish Nation. ~ Thomas Davis

I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years. ~ Nobuo Uematsu

I am very proud to be Irish. ~ Philip Treacy

Irish improves a poet. ~ Sina Queyras

In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish. ~ Caroline Corr