Jodie Foster Quotes

I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture.

I'm one hundred percent Irish, and I'm very proud that I'm Irish American, though I don't know exactly where my ancestors came from. I just know County Cork.

I am immensely proud of my Irish roots.

I'll also tell you that to no less extent my mom, who was the daughter of Irish immigrants.

Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me.

My parents are Irish, my grandparents are Irish, my great-grandparents are Irish. I was born in England; my blood is Irish.

My soul is still Irish.

I'm proud to be Irish.

I gotta lot of Black Irish in me.

All my people are from Ireland. I was born in Manchester, but I am Irish.

My Irish identity is important as it's a part of who I am.

I've got my roots in Northern Ireland - my biological father's side of the family were from Belfast.

My kids are Irish; I want them to grow up playing Gaelic football and learning Irish.

I'm Irish as hell: Kelly on one side, Shanley on the other. My father had been born on a farm in the Irish Midlands. He and his brothers had been shepherds there, cattle and sheep, back in the early 1920s. I grew up surrounded by brogues and Irish music, but stayed away from the old country till I was over 40. I just couldn't own being Irish.

Three-quarters of my family is Irish. Of course, the 'Kazee' is not.

I'm just a true Irish boy at heart.

Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.

Yes, I am an Irish lass through and through.

The fact is that most 'Irish-Americans', in spite of dropping the word 'Irish' into half of all sentences, couldn't find Europe on an atlas, let alone Ireland.

Being Irish means you belong to the clan. It's what you feel. They feel Irish.

You can take a man out of Ireland, but you can't take the Irishness out of the man.

I'm from an Irish Catholic family.

My grandparents were all born in the U.S., but their parents came from Ireland.

My grandfather John came from Cork. I have six degrees of separation in Ireland.

All my family look Irish. They act Irish. My sister even has red hair... it's crazy. I'm the one that doesn't seem Irish. None of the kids in my family, my siblings, speak with an Irish accent... we've never lived there full-time; we weren't born there. We just go there once or twice a year. It's weird. Our parents sound Irish, but we don't.