Irish Descent

Famous quotes containing the words irish and/or descent:

“The next forenoon we went to Oldtown.... The Indian is said to cultivate the vices rather than the virtues of the white man. Yet this village was cleaner than I expected, far cleaner than such Irish villages as I have seen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“My life has been one long descent into respectability.”
—Mandy Rice-Davies (b. 1944)