20 Irish Catholic Quotes for You to Enjoy

I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt. Edna O'Brien

Guilt Long Catholic Irish Irish Catholic Iceberg

In kindergarten, we had this Irish Catholic headmistress called Sister Leonie, and I remember she would tell us, say, to put the crayons in the box. I remember thinking, 'Why is everyone finding this so easy? Why should the crayons be in the box?' Binyavanga Wainaina

I'm from an Irish Catholic family. Bonnie Hunt

Family Catholic Irish Irish Catholic

I grew up middle class - my dad was a high school teacher; there were five kids in our family. We all shared a nine-hundred-square-foot home with one bathroom. That was exciting. And my wife is Irish Catholic and also very, very barely middle class. Dana Carvey

Teacher Home Family Class School Wife Our Bathroom Kids High High School High School Teacher Shared Exciting School Teacher Also Catholic Were Up Very Irish Irish Catholic Five Middle Middle Class Grew Barely Dad

I won the parental lottery. Most of the kids I grew up with either came from really fractured homes, or really violent ones. I went home to a very traditional, good Irish Catholic family. Dennis Lehane

Worse than the ordinary, miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. Frank McCourt

Miserable Worse Catholic Irish Irish Catholic Than Childhood Ordinary

I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough guy. So one of my brothers left home when he was 15 and found his way to the gym. It gave me the opportunity to go and spend some time with him and work out in the gym. Gerry Cooney

Work Time Home Family Me Opportunity Big Gave Spend Way Out Some Pretty Brothers Guy Gym He Him Catholic Go His His Way Left Up Irish Irish Catholic Grew Work Out Rough Dad Found

I don't think I related to the Irish Catholic surroundings that was my environment when I was growing up. Isabela Moner

Think Related Environment Catholic Up Surroundings Irish Irish Catholic Growing Growing Up

I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American. John Cusack

Myself Me Consider Catholic Irish Irish Catholic American Raised

People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue. Martin Short

People Father Think Had Catholic Irish Irish Catholic Jewish

I'm not sure I would make a direct connection between having press attention as a young person and being interested in the media as an older person. I came to it more organically, coming from a family of Irish Catholic storytellers. Storytelling is a pastime and important part of my family's history and culture. Rory Kennedy

Family History Culture Important Young Older Press Would Direct Direct Connection Having More Part Attention Between Make Catholic Sure Important Part Coming Came Irish Irish Catholic Pastime Person Being Interested Storytellers Young Person Storytelling Organically Connection Media

People make mistakes in life. You shouldn't have to live with that for the rest of your life. I believe in redemption. I'm an Irish Catholic, and I just think it's the right thing to do. Terry McAuliffe

Life You People Rest Mistakes Live Believe Think Right Thing Make Catholic Redemption Irish Irish Catholic Just The Right Thing Your Right Thing

I spent my entire Irish Catholic youth in a constant state of guilt over imaginary sins. I learned that nothing is a sin as long as you don't take pleasure from it. Terry Wogan

You Youth Guilt Long Nothing State Spent Pleasure Constant Entire Take Sin Over Catholic Learned Sins Irish Irish Catholic Imaginary

I saw my mother crying for the first time, which made a huge impression on me, when I came home from kindergarten, and she was watching TV because JFK - that Irish Catholic president that we loved - had been killed. Tim Kaine

Time Home Me Mother Made First President Saw TV Kindergarten Had Crying She Catholic Because First Time Came Been Huge Impression Irish Irish Catholic Loved Which Watching Watching Tv

From the year of his birth in 1914 until the outbreak of war in 1941, my father lived in a mostly white, mostly working-class, mostly Irish Catholic neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. Tim O'Brien

War Father Year White Birth Neighborhood Outbreak Brooklyn New Until Mostly Catholic His Irish Irish Catholic York New York Working-Class Lived