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Famous people born in March.
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March
1 (Tuesday)
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3 The Star Spangled Banner was adopted by Congress as the national anthem in 1931.
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8 Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday)
9 Ash Wednesday
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12 Girl Scouts founded in 1912
13 Daylight Savings Begins at 2:00 a.m. (Sunday)
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15 Ides of March
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17 St. Patrick's Day Founding Father Matthew Thornton came from Ireland, as did James Smith.
18 Johnny Appleseed Day
19 The swallows return to Capistrano. The story of the swallows.
20 Purim begins at sundown
Spring (vernal) equinox
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25 Feast of the Anunciation
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The harp is the symbol of Ireland
The symbol of the Claddagh Ring
The hands are there for friendship,
The heart is there for love.
For loyalty throughout the year,
The crown is raised above.
"There are only two kinds of people in the world, the Irish and those who wish they were."
"If you're lucky enough to be Irish, then you're lucky enough."
"May those who love us, love us; and those who don't love us, may God turn their hearts; and if He doesn't turn their hearts, may he turn their ankles so we'll know them by their limping."
Irish Toast
"When Irish eyes are smiling,
Sure, 'tis like the morn in Spring.
In the lilt of Irish laughter
You can hear the angels sing."
-- Chauncey Olcott and George Graff"
Health and life to you,
The woman of your choice for you,
A child every year for you,
And may you die in Ireland."
"Anyone acquainted with Ireland knows that the morning of St. Patrick's Day consists of the night of the seventeenth of March flavored strongly with the morning of the eighteenth."
"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy." -- William Butler Yeats
"In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs."
-- Sir John Pentland Mahaffy
"The Irish don't know what they want and are prepared to fight to the death to get it."
--Sidney Littlewood
"Saint Patrick was a gentleman, who through strategy and stealth,
Drove all the snakes from Ireland -- here's a drink to his health!
But not too many drinks, lest we lose ourselves and then
Forget the good Saint Patrick, and see them snakes again!"
"For the great Gaels of Ireland
Are the men that God made mad,
For all their wars are merry,
And all their songs are sad."
-- G. K. Chesterton
"When laws can stop the blades of grass from growin' as they grow,
And when the leaves in summer-time their color dare not show,
Then I will change the color too I wear in my caubeen,But till that day, please God, I'll stick to the Wearin' o' the Green."
The heart is there for love.
For loyalty throughout the year,
The crown is raised above.
"There are only two kinds of people in the world, the Irish and those who wish they were."
"If you're lucky enough to be Irish, then you're lucky enough."
"May those who love us, love us; and those who don't love us, may God turn their hearts; and if He doesn't turn their hearts, may he turn their ankles so we'll know them by their limping."
Irish Toast
"When Irish eyes are smiling,
Sure, 'tis like the morn in Spring.
In the lilt of Irish laughter
You can hear the angels sing."
-- Chauncey Olcott and George Graff"
Health and life to you,
The woman of your choice for you,
A child every year for you,
And may you die in Ireland."
"Anyone acquainted with Ireland knows that the morning of St. Patrick's Day consists of the night of the seventeenth of March flavored strongly with the morning of the eighteenth."
"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy." -- William Butler Yeats
"In Ireland the inevitable never happens and the unexpected constantly occurs."
-- Sir John Pentland Mahaffy
"St. Patrick's Day is an enchanted time -- a day to begin transforming winter's dreams into summer's magic." -- Adrienne Cook"
The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet."
-- Oliver Herford
"An Irishman is never drunk as long as he can hold onto one blade of grass to keep from falling off the earth."
"O Ireland isn't it grand you look--
Like a bride in her rich adornin?
And with all the pent-up love of my heart
I bid you the top o' the mornin!"
--John Locke
"Ireland is rich in literature that understands a soul's yearnings, and dancing that understands a happy heart."
-- Margaret Jackson
"Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep." -- Dave Barry
"This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever."
-- Sigmund Freud
The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet."
-- Oliver Herford
"An Irishman is never drunk as long as he can hold onto one blade of grass to keep from falling off the earth."
"O Ireland isn't it grand you look--
Like a bride in her rich adornin?
And with all the pent-up love of my heart
I bid you the top o' the mornin!"
--John Locke
"Ireland is rich in literature that understands a soul's yearnings, and dancing that understands a happy heart."
-- Margaret Jackson
"Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep." -- Dave Barry
"This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever."
-- Sigmund Freud
"The Irish don't know what they want and are prepared to fight to the death to get it."
--Sidney Littlewood
"Saint Patrick was a gentleman, who through strategy and stealth,
Drove all the snakes from Ireland -- here's a drink to his health!
But not too many drinks, lest we lose ourselves and then
Forget the good Saint Patrick, and see them snakes again!"
"For the great Gaels of Ireland
Are the men that God made mad,
For all their wars are merry,
And all their songs are sad."
-- G. K. Chesterton
"When laws can stop the blades of grass from growin' as they grow,
And when the leaves in summer-time their color dare not show,
Then I will change the color too I wear in my caubeen,But till that day, please God, I'll stick to the Wearin' o' the Green."
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