Irish Descent

Famous quotes containing the words irish and/or descent:

“Irish Americans are about as Irish as black Americans are African.”
—Bob Geldof (b. 1954)

““There is Hawthorne, with genius so shrinking and rare
That you hardly at first see the strength that is there;
A frame so robust, with a nature so sweet,
So earnest, so graceful, so lithe and so fleet,
Is worth a descent from Olympus to meet;”
—James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)