“ I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely. ”
— Anne Enright
“ Above all else, deep in my soul, I'm a tough Irishwoman. ”
— Maureen O'Hara
“ Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep. ”
— Dave Barry
“ Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. ”
— John Boyle O'Reilly
“ There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. ”
— John Millington Synge
“ I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA. ”
— Brian Dennehy
“ Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. ”
— William Butler Yeats
“ If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family. ”
— Victoria Smurfit
“ Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see. ”
— George William Russell
“ That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way? ”
— Lara Flynn Boyle
“ Being Irish, I always had this love of words. ”
— Kenneth Branagh
“ I try to be grateful for the abundance of the blessings that I have, for the journey that I'm on and to relish each day as a gift. ”
— James McGreevey
“ You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish. ”
— Darrell Royal
“ You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it. ”
— Jimmy Dean
“ I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it. ”
— Denzel Washington
“ To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone. ”
— Reba McEntire
“ Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends. ”
— William Butler Yeats
“ Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me. ”
— Saint Patrick
“ Fond memory brings the light of other days around me. ”
— Thomas Moore
“ Luck is believing you're lucky. ”
— Tennessee Williams
“ We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. ”
— Winston Churchill
“ Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. ”
— Pope John Paul II
“ If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks. ”
— Brendan Behan
“ The joyful heart sees and reads the world with a sense of freedom and graciousness. ”
— John O'Donohue
“ Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. ”
— Shane Leslie