Scotland Quotes · Page 11

I want to change Scotland, but the only way we can change Scotland is by changing the Scottish Labour Party.

— Johann Lamont

You have to live and breathe Scotland if you're 'Scotsman' editor.

— Andrew Neil

The question is not whether Scotland can survive as a separate state. Of course it could.

— Alistair Darling

People in Scotland appreciate homegrown talent, but it's getting harder and harder to get films made in Britain.

— Robert Carlyle

No one anticipated the SNP wiping out Labour in Scotland in 2015.

— Luciana Berger

I loved being in Trainspotting and having to dive into the filthiest toilet in Scotland.

— Ewan McGregor

I come from a working class community in eastern Scotland, and I've always been a populist, though not a patronising populist.

— Brian Cox

The big issues, the things that scar Scotland - the least of them is whether we should have a border at Gretna…

— Johann Lamont

It's great that after 700 years William Wallace has finally had a proper burial. He did so much for the country. You…

— Mel Gibson

We who represent the Unionist Party in England and Scotland have supported, and we mean to support to the end, the loyal…

— Bonar Law

If I had stayed in Belfast, my life there wouldn't have as easy as it was in Scotland. I see the strain…

— Joan Lingard

When universities are forced to recruit more and more from outwith Scotland just to balance the books, it is inevitable that doors…

— Johann Lamont

For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I am William Wallace... And the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them there that Scotland's…

— William Wallace

I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because…

— Hugh Laurie

“So there comes a moment when we turn and look at each other - England and Scotland - and realise we just…

— David Greig

In Scotland, Catholics have raised their voices against sectarianism and intolerance directed against the Church. Clearly, these actions show that freedom of…

— Keith O'Brien

“In prehistoric times, early man was bowled over by natural events: rain, thunder, lightning, the violent shaking and moving of the ground,…

— Signe Pike

My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you've just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and…

— Jay Kay

“Alysandir is a fine horseman," Isobella said. He was about to dismount, and she stepped upon a stool to get a better…

— Elaine Coffman

I meant it, Claire,' he said quietly. 'My life is yours. And it's yours to decide what we shall do, where we…

— Diana Gabaldon

“In the Scotland of the early seventeenth century, an old woman living alone in Kirkcudbrightshire was accused of witchcraft and on conviction…

— Colin Bord

When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that voting Labour wasn't in Scotland's…

— Jimmy Reid

It has never been about me. That's not the way I am. With Scotland, it has always been about the squad, the…

— Robert Snodgrass

I have planted over 6,000 trees at home in Scotland, some of them oak. I'd like my children to be able to…

— Rory Stewart

I love Scotland. Edinburgh is a beautiful city and has a wonderful tradition of supporting the arts.

— Peter Hambleton

“You boys may be gentlemen," Dusty said. "But I'm about to shoot like a lady. You ready, baby?”

— Stephanie Kate Strohm

For someone who doesn't live there, when I go back to Scotland it's very weird for me.

— Jimmy Somerville

When the British Open is in Scotland, there's something special about it. And when it's at St. Andrews, it's even greater.

— Jack Nicklaus

I am more relaxed at home in Scotland, and my children are of an age where I want us, as a family,…

— Rory Bremner

“Christmas was not officially restored as a full holiday in Scotland until 1958.”

— Jeff Guinn

But there is always that unpredictability about a derby match and that's what it was today.

— Alex Ferguson

I fell in love with Scotland and made good friends here, so I stayed after graduating with Honours in Chemistry.

— Steve Blake

“Holy fairy feathers, why does he have to be so handsome? Why couldn't a haggard old man have washed ashore?”

— Amy Jarecki

“I suppose there are some advantages to this place,' he admitted. 'I bet it's fucking raining in Stirling.”

— Christopher Brookmyre

They say that the older you get, the more conservative you become: perhaps that's the reason there are no Tories in Scotland.

— Frankie Boyle

If the U.K. were threatening to withdraw from Europe, I would certainly want Scotland to be out of that.

— Peter Higgs

I lost the accent years ago, but I'm still very proud to be Scottish, and I love wearing a kilt.

— Steve Valentine

My message is a simple one - the E.U. is not perfect, but Scotland's interests are best served by being a member.

— Nicola Sturgeon

Touch his head, and he will bargain and argue with you to the last; Touch his heart, and he falls upon your…

— Andrew Carnegie