Irish American Mayors

Famous quotes containing the words irish and/or american:

“I hope you will not be washed away by the Irish sea.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The U.S. is becoming an increasingly fatherless society. A generation ago, an American child could reasonably expect to grow up with his or her father. Today an American child can reasonably expect not to. Fatherlessness is now approaching a rough parity with fatherhood as a defining feature of American childhood.”
—David Blankenhorn (20th century)