Famous quotes containing the words irish and/or state:
“Irish Americans are about as Irish as black Americans are African.”
—Bob Geldof (b. 1954)
“The only thing that was dispensed free to the old New Bedford whalemen was a Bible. A well-known owner of one of that city’s whaling fleets once described the Bible as the best cheap investment a shipowner could make.”
—For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)