Scotland Quotes · Page 15

I don't live in London - I'm based in Norfolk and have a place in Scotland.

— Martin Shaw

“Ye’re wet,” he groaned. “I’m underwater.” “I ken that, bonny. But this dampness has nothing to do with that.”

— Kerrigan Byrne

My parents are artists and they decided they would prefer to paint in the Mediterranean rather than in Scotland.

— David Russell

You have to go to Scotland at all times of the year - in order to appreciate the times when the sun…

— Bill Bailey

Scotland cannot be the only 'something for nothing' country in the world.

— Johann Lamont

I was still only 19 when I went to Scotland, but it was a good loan move for me to play those…

— James Maddison

“Still pleasant as a cornered hedgehog, and as well mannered as a badger, I see.”

— Kerrigan Byrne

I was a fan like everybody else, even before I got called up for Scotland.

— Robert Snodgrass

In Scotland, I have to say I'm more fond of Glasgow Rangers - not celtc - and there is a great player…

— Eusebio

It is not whether an independent Scotland could go it alone and develop its own defence forces - of course it could…

— Philip Hammond

“These Norsemen are excellent persons in the main, with good sense, steadiness, wise speech, and prompt action. But they have a singular…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist.…

— Alan Cumming

I always wanted to play Lestrade of Scotland Yard 'cause he's a buffoon that gets to wear a uniform. I thought that…

— Tom Hanks

The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied. Are they not then in strictest…

— Charles Churchill

The reason I'm patriotic about Scotland is because I think it's been dealt a really hard hand. It's marketed the world over…

— Alexander McQueen

Scotland has been re-energized, and people all over the country have become involved in - and informed about - politics and government…

— Nicola Sturgeon

“The Swedes captured 5,000 new uniforms, broke into monasteries, held the monks to ransom, and opened the crypts to steal rings from…

— Peter H. Wilson

“The village lay in the hollow, and climbed, with very prosaic houses, the other side. Village architecture does not flourish in Scotland.…

— Margaret Oliphant

It would be wrong to interpret the growth of British national consciousness in this period in terms of a new cultural and…

— Linda Colley

“Amelia envisaged that between York and the royal-infested Scottish Highlands there was a grimy wasteland of derelict cranes and abandoned mills and…

— Kate Atkinson

A compelling and important story of First Word War Scotland, a time when women redefined the word hope as the world was…

— Ami McKay

“News of the death of James V on 14 December gave even further cause for rejoicing, because his heir was a week-old…

— Alison Weir

When Tony Benn became a minister in the 1960s -- and I think this must be apocryphal -- he had a huge…

— Neal Ascherson

You have sensible women here [in England] but then, they are very devils--censorious, uncharitable, sarcastic--the women in Scotland have twice--thrice their freedom,…

— Fanny Burney

I've got no doubt at all, that I will be the leader that will ensure that Scotland becomes an independent nation.

— Humza Yousaf

The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things... after the weather.

— Billy Connolly

It's a tremendous honour to come away with the Scotland national team.

— Scott McTominay

Would I love to think that one day I would be First Minister of an independent Scotland? Of course.

— Nicola Sturgeon

The fans in Scotland are great, but in New York, the fans are also great: they are mental.

— Drew McIntyre

“Learning to pipe isn't easy. At first it always sounds worse than a chicken yard full of squawking adolescent roosters.”

— Amy Jarecki

Northern Ireland, England, Scotland - when we play each other, you don't want to lose to a neighbouring country.

— Chris Coleman

I think his team are mirroring Stuart Pearce as the player he was. (on Manchester City)

— Alex Ferguson

I go to Scotland maybe three times a year, and I love it. When I'm at home, I feel at home, I…

— Gerard Butler

There are lots of jobs and investment in Scotland dependent on our membership of the E.U. single market.

— Nicola Sturgeon

My favourite football memory is the opening match of France '98, and unfortunately Scotland had drawn Brazil.

— Amy Macdonald

There's hunger for playing football in general and it's an even bigger hunger when it's playing for Scotland.

— Scott McTominay

It is true that I once refused to eat haggis in Scotland and this did not sit well with the local population.

— Rick Riordan

Bright was the summer of 1296. The war which had desolated Scotland was then at an end.

— Jane Porter

The Scottish Labour Party should work as equal partners with the U.K. party, just as Scotland is an equal partner in the…

— Johann Lamont

The common fisheries policy unfortunately led to the devastation of fishing in Scotland. My dad had to close his business. As a…

— Michael Gove