Belfast Quotes

Nothing but terror will keep them in order. It is plain every act of sedition originates in this town.

I've made 'The Pilgrimage' - where I actually had to speak Gaelic - and I was shooting in Belfast as well.

My father longed for a better life for us, and when I was nine he got a job as a heart surgeon in Belfast. It was very bittersweet when we said goodbye to our relatives, and I remember crying my eyes out at the airport.

But if I ever fight in Northern Ireland again, I want it to be at Windsor Park.

Today I am so at home in Dublin, more than in any other city, that I feel it has always been familiar to me. But, as with Belfast it took me years to penetrate its outer ugliness and dourness, so with Dublin it took me years to see through its soft charm to its bitter prickly kernel - which I quite like too.

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

As a kid I could be in New Lodge in a minute. I'd go down our street, turn right and I was there.

Northern Ireland isn't actually part of Great Britain, but we still want it to be part of 'Sofa Watch.'

Belfast during the Troubles looked like a different world.

I have so many happy memories of Belfast and the shows I played there.

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.

I certainly notice the vitality in Belfast, which wasn't there in the Seventies. There was a war going on then. Now there are cranes everywhere. There really is a sense of renewal and hope.

I was born in Northern Ireland in 1951. I lived most of my life there until 1986 or 1987.

My mom's half-Irish, and my dad's half-Irish. We don't know much about my mom's side, but my dad's mom came from Belfast and married my grandfather, who was from Wales.

Jason Momoa became a really good friend of ours when he played Khal Drogo. We loved hanging out with Momoa, and suddenly we couldn't bring him to Belfast anymore.

If you were to really look for major shared space [by Catholics & Protestants] in Belfast, I think you’d find it quite problematic to locate them.

I resolve not to build but at one place; namely, at Belfast.

Belfast is a city which, while not forgetting its past, is living comfortably with its present and looking forward to its future.

Alex Higgins was my hero, so to play in Belfast, at the superb Waterfront Hall, is very special to me.

I got a letter from 13-year-old Ryan from Belfast. Now, Ryan, if you're out in the crowd tonight, here's the answer to your question. No, as far as I know, an alien spacecraft did not crash in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. And, Ryan, if the United States Air Force did recover alien bodies, they didn't tell me about it, either, and I want to know.

I might bump into them because I live in Belfast, and Belfast is not that big a place. You go for a walk, and you walk past Kit Harington. You go for a meal, and there's Peter Dinklage.

When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.

I love going home to Belfast on weekend breaks from training.

We do have pictures on the wall, in our office in Belfast where we spend half our time. All the head shots are on the wall. So yeah, we just throw darts at the ones we don't want anymore.

I think I opened up an area with Astral Weeks that hit a lot of peoples' nerves. But you can't really say that they're my favorite songs.