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

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.

- Reba McEntire

Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.

- Pope John Paul II

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

- Oliver Goldsmith

Above all else, deep in my soul, I'm a tough Irishwoman.

- Maureen O'Hara

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

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

- Joseph Brodsky

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

- John Millington Synge

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

- John Boyle O'Reilly

I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.

- Anne Enright

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

Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.

- George William Russell

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.

- Denzel Washington

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep.

- Dave Barry

You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish.

- Darrell Royal

Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.

- Colin Farrell

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

- C. S. Lewis

I come from an Irish Catholic family, and hell-raising is part of the DNA.

- Brian Dennehy

If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.

- Brendan Behan