24 Belfast Quotes for You to Enjoy

Belfast is a city which, while not forgetting its past, is living comfortably with its present and looking forward to its future. James Nesbitt

Future Looking Past Living City Looking Forward Comfortably Forgetting Which While Forward Belfast Present

On my Wikipedia page, it used to say I was born in Belfast, Ireland, then it said Belfast, Northern Ireland, and then it said Belfast, U.K. So there was a little war going on about where Belfast is located. Adrian McKinty

War Wikipedia Say Located Born About Said Ireland Going Northern Northern Ireland Where Little Then Page Used Belfast

If Israel does not find the way to disengage from the Palestinians, its future might resemble the experience of Belfast or Bosnia - two communities bleeding each other to death for generations. Ehud Barak

Death Future Experience Other Way Find Bosnia Generations Bleeding Does Israel Might Communities Resemble Belfast Each Palestinians Two

I really love it in Belfast. I always stay in the most bombed hotel, the Europa! Gareth Gates

Love Stay Hotel Most Always Really Belfast Bombed

When I retired from the circus at the grand old age of 11, my parents thought it would be best to focus more on the challenges ahead, and so I started at Methodist College Belfast. Ian Beattie

Best Challenges Age Old Focus Thought College Parents Old Age Circus Would Would-Be More Retired Methodist Grand Belfast Started

When I was growing up, Belfast City Hall was surrounded by security, and we had no access to it. But now, people come in and out of it all the time. On a nice day, office workers and students sit on the lawn outside and have lunch. It's great to see how Northern Ireland has changed. To be part of that is fantastic. James Nesbitt

Time Day Great People Sit Nice Lunch Changed Out Security City City Hall See Lawn Outside Students Had Part Come Hall Access How Surrounded Up Ireland Office Northern Northern Ireland Fantastic Workers Belfast Growing Growing Up Now

Listen, I'm from Belfast. We're not polite people. And it's language. We're direct. Paula Malcomson

People Language Direct Polite Listen Belfast

I've lived in Liverpool, London, Belfast, Germany, Coventry, Dorset, and Cyprus. Pete Doherty

London Germany Cyprus Belfast Lived Liverpool

My parents were Belfast Catholics. Pete Hamill

Parents Catholics Were Belfast

We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature. Peter Hain

Service Justice Old Tomorrow Community Criminal Criminal Justice Launching Entirely Feature Division Prosecution New Equal New Era Era Doing Ireland Northern Northern Ireland Which Public Belfast Now Basis

All you would hear every night on the news was that somebody had been shot dead in a certain part of Belfast. We lived opposite a judge, and there were always soldiers crouched down in our garden. We'd sit and talk to them, and I even used to sing to them! Rachel Tucker

News You Garden Judge Somebody Sit Down Every Our Soldiers Would Had Part Talk Sing Dead Always Opposite Were Hear Been Them Shot Certain Used Even Belfast Lived Every Night Night

I've made 'The Pilgrimage' - where I actually had to speak Gaelic - and I was shooting in Belfast as well. Tom Holland

Speak Made Had Well Pilgrimage Shooting Where Gaelic Belfast Actually

My father longed for a better life for us, and when I was nine he got a job as a heart surgeon in Belfast. It was very bittersweet when we said goodbye to our relatives, and I remember crying my eyes out at the airport. Katie Melua

Life Heart Eyes Better Remember Surgeon Father Relatives Job Nine Our Airport Out I Remember Bittersweet Better Life He Goodbye Crying Said Got Very Us Belfast

Well, I couldn't speak English before I went to Belfast. So I learned English with a Northern Irish accent. Katie Melua

Speak Before Well Accent Learned Irish Northern English Belfast

I used to think being in the West would be incredible and then when I was nine my parents moved us to Belfast. I was initially amazed by little things - in toyshops you could actually play with the toys, the schools were more colourful and there were so many magazines everywhere. Katie Melua

You Little Things Parents Think Incredible Nine Everywhere Would Would-Be Magazines More Could Schools Toys Amazed Were West Moved Being Little Then Us Used Many Initially Belfast Play Actually Things

I mean Georgia, and also Belfast, aren't the most stable places, politically, in the world. But the thing is, in both places, the people were just so kind and so warm and in Belfast so welcoming. Katie Melua

People World Kind Both Most Welcoming Also Were Georgia Politically Stable Just Places Mean Warm Belfast Thing

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