Scotland Quotes · Page 13

I loved the pace of life and the majesty of New Zealand. It's similar to Scotland - but feels newer.

— Mark Bonnar

I'd like to visit the Faroe Islands and at some point take a boat trip along the Caledonian Canal in Scotland.

— Ruth Jones

I believe in Scotland's place within the United Kingdom today as much as ever.

— Ruth Davidson

I'm a Freemason, and we love to celebrate Burns' night: piping in the haggis, the whole lot.

— Rick Wakeman

My roots are Scottish. My dad's parents are from Scotland, and my mum's dad is Scots.

— Katharine Isabelle

I loved the Faroe Islands, that was incredible. It was like Scotland and they made me feel at home.

— Jock Zonfrillo

There is some really good crack when I come back here. This is where I learned to swear.

— Ewan McGregor

Two negatives make a positive but only in Scotland do two positives make a negative: aye right.

— Frankie Boyle

We in Scotland need fiscal responsibility. Quite simply, we need to be responsible for what we raise in tax and what we…

— Tom Hunter

One thing we do know is that mass literacy is a product of the 19th century, at least in English-speaking cultures -…

— Robert Hass

People often write to me, addressing the envelope, 'Stephen Hendry, Snooker Player' or 'Stephen Hendry, Scotland,' and it reaches me.

— Stephen Hendry

When you go away, you see where you come from in a different light. I see Scotland, and the rest of Britain,…

— Irvine Welsh

Pretty much every artist in Scotland - musician, writer, poet, actor - they're all part of a thing called the National Collective.

— Roddy Woomble

That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a…

— Iris Murdoch

My political awakening, if I can be as grand as to call it that, was all about what was happening around me.…

— Nicola Sturgeon

When I had other things to deal with in my personal life, people were telling me to come and play for Scotland.…

— Robert Snodgrass

Scots are born exiles, and Scotland the perfect country to be exiled from. Do not imagine that I am running down Scotland.…

— Jan Struther

In the late-'80s, there was a big push to make American football big in Scotland. The Super Bowl was on TV, but…

— Kevin McKidd

“You turn the lights on and off here and if you can’t sleep and want something to read there are books in…

— Shannon MacLeod

“Och, lass. Yer going to have to not do that.” Faolán exhaled. “Creeping up on a man is a dangerous thing, and…

— Shannon MacLeod

As I spread my wings in politics, I discovered many Thatcher voters down south who were the same kind of people who…

— Charles Kennedy

Is this good for English football? In the short run, Chelsea's rise has broken up what was turning into an irritating Arsenal-Manchester…

— Matthew Engel

872, Ivar, King of the Northmen of all Ireland and Britain , ended his life." He had conquered Mercia and East Anglia.…

— Winston Churchill

“The practice of buying off the Vikings will always be associated with Æthelred in particular… [but] it was not something which proceeded…

— Simon Keynes

I was brought up in Scotland and have always been a country person, although the town means a great deal to me,…

— Susannah York

I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good…

— Jeanette MacDonald

I grew up in a little fishing village called Anstruther in East Fife in upper Scotland.

— Edith Bowman

“He gave it the benefit of the doubt; he was Scotch. ("The Wendigo")”

— Algernon Blackwood

Scotland has a great deal to offer the world in terms of our approach to key economic and social issues.

— Nicola Sturgeon

People are pretty normal in Scotland, I've had a few crazy fan experiences elsewhere.

— Nina Nesbitt

A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth.

— Samuel Johnson

I'd like to win the belts and take them back to Scotland and show Ken Buchanan, who told me as a kid…

— Josh Taylor

As a teenager in Scotland, I had American friends, sons and daughters of officers at a U.S. Air Force base.

— Gavin Esler

I even like the Scottish weather because, like everywhere in the U.K., you can't have great beauty without lots of rain.

— Dominic Holland

I was fortunate to be able to go to the Scotland games with my grandad and it's scary to think I could…

— John McGinn

In my day England, Scotland, Wales had 80 drama schools. There are none left. So there's no training, no discipline.

— Peter O'Toole

If Scotland and America go to war, I'm afraid I've already sworn in.

— Craig Ferguson

“There is not such a word Spoke of in Scotland as this term of fear.”

— William Shakespeare

I've always been an outsider. Even in London. If I returned to Scotland, I'd feel a complete foreigner.

— Peter Doig

If there is writing on Hadrian's Wall, it reads that the English should leave Scotland to its own devices.

— Simon Heffer