Great Irish Quotes:

There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a peculiar feature of human actions that, once performed, they can never be recuperated. What is true of the past will always be true of it.

- Terry Eagleton

topic: Past, Vienna, Peculiar, Great Irish

My first thought when I came here was that I understood why there are so many great Irish writers - because there is something mystical in the air. There's always this cloudy, moody sky and it's challenging.

- Christopher Meloni

topic: Air, Sky, Challenges, Cloudy, Cloudy Day

I think there's nothing better than laughing in life, so that's nice, to be thought of as someone who can make someone laugh. It's 'cause I think life is hard. You know, my dad was a really silly man. A great Irish silly man. And that's fine.

- Joan Cusack

topic: Dad, Nice, Silly, Make Someone Laugh, Great Irish

Yes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on.

- James Connolly

source: James Connolly (1973). “Quotations from James Connolly: An Anthology in Parts”

topic: Art, Practice, Fool, Great Irish

I'm really fortunate. I grew up in a wonderful household with great Irish Catholic parents.

- Tim Kaine

source: Source: www.politico.com

topic: Parent, Catholic, Wonderful, Great Irish