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I come from the Lynchs of Sligo. You know, I went there, but I looked in the phone book and there are nine million Lynches in Sligo.
London, dirty little pool of life
When's the last time you walked by a pub in Dublin and heard Irish music? When's the last time you ordered a coffee and heard an Irish accent?
But one of the most fantastic things about Ireland and Dublin is that the pubs are like Paris and the cafe culture. And Dublin, in many ways, is a pub culture.
Belgrade has kind of a Dublinesque, dear-dirty charm.
A person from Northern Ireland is naturally cautious.
That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish!
The land of Ireland for the people of Ireland.
I'm just a true Irish boy at heart.
There are some discussions taking place in the United Arab Emirates about the prospects of a long-haul flight into Belfast.
I have lived in Ireland, visited all my life, and when I fight, I represent Ireland.
I used to live in Pillgwenlly, and there was this old Italian pizzeria that used to be there with a really amazing character who ran it.
I grew up in a little village in the west of Ireland.
I'm proud to be Irish.
I want to say a very sincere thank you for this welcome home - it is a wonderful welcome home. It is the place to where I return and where I will always return because it is of Galway that I am.
We're St Mary's. We run on tea. The
I may be Irish, but I'm not stupid.
I love Ireland. I'll always be 100pc Irish. I get really excited when I go to Sligo; it's my home.
Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
My accent gets more pronounced when I've been talking to people from Derry.
Drop by Bell's for an Irish Kiss anytime. The best in England
Walla Walla is where I make wine, with Eric Dunham. He and I partnered up on a small project for me. We make pretty good cabernet and syrah.
Ireland?" he said. "I'm from Ireland! Why do you think I came here?" he said. "Nothing good in Ireland." He frowned. "Except the ale. The ale is fine.
Ireland's always going to be my home, but so much is filmed in L.A., so you have to spend time out here.
I'm just a normal working class boy from Belfast.
I've never read anything set in Belfast that doesn't involve the Troubles or something senseless over a flag.
When the Internet arrived in Ireland ... it was like having Amsterdam's Red Light District in your own living room.
Clare. Give me a reason to stay.
Yorkshire is so much part of me.
Anyone born and bred in Northern Ireland can't be too optimistic.
The thing about Manchester is ... it all comes from here
Dublin was an English city, one of the loveliest. The most Irish thing about it was the shifting drab flow of the poor people
It's strange coming back to Northern Ireland, but it feels like a home away from home.
Before we kill Schengen, we have to make Dublin work.
Irish tory employers hid[e] their sweatshops behind orange flags, and Irish home rule landlords us[e] the green sunburst of Erin to cloak their rack-renting in the festering slums of our Irish towns.
Kerry Gold Irish butter.
Gladstone .. spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question; unfortunately, whenever he was getting warm, the Irish secretly changed the Question, ...
The countryside in Belfast is beautiful. No technical wizardry is needed to show quite how glorious it is in its natural state.
Ireland is not at all a simple place, and in many ways it is spare and sad. It has no wealth, no power, no stability, no influence, no fashion, no size. Its only real arts are song and drama and poem. But Limerick alone has two thousand ruined castles and surely that many practicing poets.
We come bulletproof in Ireland. We're reared tough, and we fight.
My soul is still Irish.
I always had this notion of a noir novel in Galway. The city is exploding, emigration has reversed, and we are fast becoming a cosmopolitan city.
Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
To Meath of the pastures,
From wet hills by the sea,
Through Leitrim and Longford,
Go my cattle and me.
London, ... like a bowl of viscid human fluid, boils sullenly over the rim of its encircling hills and slops messily into the home counties.
I was happy in Dublin because it is very cosmopolitan.
I was shocked by the amount of Welsh people in L.A. We'd go to this British pub to watch the 'Six Nations' early in the morning and I remember the first time I walked in it was just a sea of red.
There's something about the Irish that is remarkable.
Your name is Sanchez, what are you doing playing for Northern Ireland?
Celtic you'll live and Celtic you'll die.
Ireland is also quite nice. So is Amsterdam.
We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature.
Hapmshire" typo,
King Offa's dyke,
James Joyce once called Guinness stout "the wine of Ireland." Indeed it's one of the most successful beers worldwide. Ten million glasses of this ambrosial liquid are consumed with great gusto each day.
I loved the energy of Dublin and the fact that it's so close to the sea, with beauty spots such as Howth so close to hand.
Oh Ireland my first and only love
Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove!
I've got that Irish thing going on. Lots of Irish in my background.
I live in Dublin, God knows why. There are greatly more congenial places I could have settled in - Italy, France, Manhattan - but I like the climate here, and Irish light seems to be essential for me and for my writing.
Niall Lynch was a braggart poet, a loser musician, a charming bit of hard luck bred in Belfast but born in Cumbria, and Ronan loved him like he loved nothing else.
That's right, there's free beer in Irish paradise. Everyone's jealous.
All my people are from Ireland. I was born in Manchester, but I am Irish.
Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.
I'm just an Irish biddy.
Wanderers, Dublin's oldest rugby club, has been described more than once as the club of the Church and the Army: the wags added
" ... unfortunately the wrong Church and the wrong Army."
In Chicago, you can't swing a cat without hitting an Irish pub (and angering the cat), but McAnally's place stands out from the crowd.
For a tiny speck in the Atlantic, Ireland has made an outsize contribution to world literature. It's a legacy we can all be proud of, one that would take many pages (or indeed a whole library of books) to recount in full.
Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
My mother's father was from Sligo, and he used to say it was the hardest thing in the world to find a man alive in Dublin who wasn't in the GPO during the Easter Rising. Twenty brave men marched into that post office, he said, and thirty thousand marched out.
I'm just a loud Irish guy.
My father was educated in Cork, in the University of Cork, in the '50s.
There is an old Belfast joke about the man stopped at a roadblock and asked his religion. When he replies that he is an atheist he is asked, Protestant or Catholic atheist?
I'm representative of 21st century Irish design, so I promote Irishness all over the world wherever I go.
What I've said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar.
For God's sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country.
Again and again, I find something eerie in many Irish occasions - the unrelenting whiteness, the emotional tribal attachments, the violent prejudices lurking beneath apparently pleasant social surfaces, the cosy smugness of belonging.
Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub.
Everyone wants to marry and Irish girl, they have the most beautiful babies.
Yes, I am an Irish lass through and through.
The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time.
Brighton I-don't-know-your-middle-name Waterford, are you asking me to strip?
Wow you need to get some sun."
"Shut up. I'm Irish.
To anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them the land they live on is like their mother. It's the only thing that lasts, that's worth working for, for fighting for ...
Ireland. Great for the spirit - very bad for the body.
I'm troubled. I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish.
We in Ireland are gifted beyond most peoples with a talent for acting, and in Dublin especially, while scorning culture, which indeed we have not got, we are possessed of a most futile and diverting cleverness.
In no particular order: baked goods, Colin Farrell's eyebrows, and the thighs of rugby players everywhere. And to the city of Edinburgh, where a love story was born.
I'm in New York, land of the free and home of the brave, but I'm supposed to behave as if I were in Limerick at all times.
People fell in love with Alex Higgins, a working-class fellow from the back streets of Belfast. That's what brought the game alive.
NEIL GAIMAN near Kinsale, County Cork 15 January 2001
I come from south Wales. A place called Aberbargoed.
Dubh is do?" I was incredulous. It was no wonder I hadn't been able to find the stupid word. "Should I be
calling pubs poos?"
"Dubh is Gaelic, Ms. Lane. Pub is not.
Come fill up my cup, come fill up my can, Come saddle your horses, and call up your men; Come open the West Port, and let me gang free, And it's room for the bonnets of Bonny Dundee!
beautiful country with spectacular views. As
Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth ... The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this cold age of intellect and skepticism.
I loved my time growing up in Northern Ireland doing youth drama, that is where it all began for me.
Sinn Fein say, "The British government are buggers".
Ring a ding dillo del! derry, del, my hearties! If you come soon you'll find breakfast on the table. If you come late you'll get grass and rain-water!