1. St. Patrick’s Day is a day to celebrate our green heritage. The ancestry of Ireland. It is a day to celebrate what it means to be Irish and of Irish descent.

- Anthony T. Hicks

2. Whether I drink often, or just once in a while; I’m always sure to raise a glass to the dear old Emerald Isle.

- Pat Maloney

3. If you hold a four-leaf shamrock in your left hand at dawn on St. Patrick’s Day you get what you want very much but haven’t wished for.

- Patricia Lynch

4. You cannot conquer Ireland. You cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom, then our children will win by a better deed.

- Patrick Henry Pearse

5. St. Patrick’s Day is an enchanted time – a day to begin transforming winter’s dreams into summer’s magic.

- Adrienne Cook

6. The list of Irish saints is passing counting; but in it all no other figure is so human, friendly, and lovable as St. Patrick.

- Stephen Gwynn

7. Whenever I want to know what the Irish are thinking, I look into my own heart.

- Eamon de Valera

8. This microscopic nation in the Atlantic has little economic or political clout in the world. But somehow, Ireland’s influence seems to pop up everywhere, whether you prefer to travel in the realms of high or low culture.

- Robert Sullivan

9. Grant me a sense of humor, Lord, the saving grace to see a joke, to win some happiness from life, and pass it on to other folks.

- Irish Prayer

10. Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels.

- Nora Roberts

11. If you’re Irish, it doesn’t matter where you are – you’ll find family.

- Victoria Smurfit

12. Oh, Paddy, dear, an’ did ye hear the news that’s goin’ round? The shamrock is forbid by law to grow on Irish ground! No more St. Patrick’s Day we’ll keep, his colour can’t be seen, For there’s a cruel law agin’ the Wearin’ o’ the green.

- Anonymous

13. That’s what the holidays are for – for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn’t that the Irish way?

- Lara Flynn Boyle

14. Ireland is the only place in the world where procrastination takes on a sense of urgency.

- Dave Allen

15. May St. Patrick guard you wherever you go, and guide you in whatever you do and may his loving protection be a blessing to you always.

- Irish Blessing

16. If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.

- Brendan Behan

17. Irish history stretches back into the dark days of the Celts, yet there is a light, laughter and a sense of laissez-faire in the Irish men and women of today.

- Richard Benson