Famous quotes containing the words irish and/or times:
“Irish Americans are about as Irish as black Americans are African.”
—Bob Geldof (b. 1954)
“There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements and statements not quite as satisfying as statistics; but in the long run, a people is known, not by its statements or its statistics, but by the stories it tells.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)