Famous quotes containing the words irish and/or blood:
“Irish Americans are about as Irish as black Americans are African.”
—Bob Geldof (b. 1954)
“Fit gravefellows you are for Lincoln, Brown
And Douglass and Toussaint. . . all whose rapt eyes
Fashioned a new world in this wilderness.
American earth is richer for your bones;
Our hearts beat prouder for the blood we inherit.”
—Dudley Randall (b. 1914)