Well, I was very lucky. I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music… — Clive Anderson Copy Share Image
I remember my dad came from Ireland and Scotland, and so he carried with him the fear of poverty. So when I… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
I'm from Scotland, one of four daughters, and we grew up moving every few years between Scotland, Portugal, Colombia and Scotland again. — Pollyanna McIntosh Copy Share Image
I know 'Vikings' isn't really based in magic, but it goes back to Old World spirituality and different religions, and a lot… — Madchen Amick Copy Share Image
Someone on the Scottish side of the family got me one and I never took it off. I would be down the… — Oliver Burke Copy Share Image
My maternal grandmother was Cantonese, so I'm a quarter Chinese and half Irish and a quarter Scottish and raised by English parents… — KT Tunstall Copy Share Image
I've moved a lot during my career. I started in Kenya and then moved to Belgium before going to Scotland, where I… — Victor Wanyama Copy Share Image
Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
For some time, Scotland's greatest exports to England have included whisky and Scottish MPs. Or, in the case of Charles Kennedy, both.… — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
Withal I did infer your lineaments, Being the right idea of your father, Both in your form and nobleness of mind; Laid… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I thought surely I looked upon all the sons of Scotland of all the ages there in one place at one time,… — N. Gemini Sasson Copy Share Image
The first big drive I did I bought an Aston Martin and drove it from London to Scotland and had a fantastic… — Dario Franchitti Copy Share Image
“The Vikings did not believe in leaving their futures to the fates, but in carving their own fates . It was believed… — Johanna Lindsey Copy Share Image
Maybe six months out of drama school, I was working at the Dundee Rep Theatre, I worked there for about a year,… — Ncuti Gatwa Copy Share Image
So far Kat has been through all the Wa's she could think of, but Hale hadn't admitted to being Walter or Ward… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Slavery wasn't something that grew up in the American South. and black people were not the first to be slaves in America.… — Lorne Greene Copy Share Image
Wherever a Scotsman goes, here goes Burns. His grand whole, catholic soul squares with the good of all; therefore we find him… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“I remember every stone, every tree, the scent of heather... Even when the thunder growled in the distance, and the wind swept… — Beatrix Potter Copy Share Image
“This is Northern Scotland after all, where whole four seasons can be experienced in the same broad daylight, or even ONE BLOODY… — Andre Mokalu Copy Share Image
In school, we learned about the Birkebeinerne as some of the bravest men. And these two guys saving the Norwegian king... There's… — Kristofer Hivju Copy Share Image
It is time we in Scotland put England in its proper place and instead of our leaning on England and taking inspiration… — Hugh MacDiarmid Copy Share Image
Due to the reliance on the old heavy industries in many parts of the country, it makes perfect sense that we need… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
We Scots have a fierce pride in the things we do that others can never appreciate. I am the British No. 1,… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
Even when I used to play Jimmy White in Scotland, he would have the majority of the support. That's the only time… — Stephen Hendry Copy Share Image
I lost my virginity under a bridge. I was having sex with this poor girl and I was trying my best, but… — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
Secessionists, whether in Scotland, Catalonia, Quebec or anywhere else, invariably assume that a person must either be Scottish or British, Catalan or… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
We used to go up and see my grandparents in Helensburgh all the time and I still do to this day. It's… — Scott McTominay Copy Share Image
Scotland is one of my favourite places to perform: it's really something special. Scottish audiences are just so enthusiastic; their approach to… — Moby Copy Share Image
“Aye, it could', Ian added. 'It's many a time when I've walked alone on the misty moors of Scotland, the fog creeping… — Terri Reid Copy Share Image
For 3 million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
I'm kind of obsessed by Everest and all those men that mountaineer and take themselves to extreme limits. Having gone back to… — Sam Heughan Copy Share Image
I love Scotland and I speak about it a lot, so people think I'm desperate to go back. They just take it… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
The Internet shows me how limited my interests are - there's everything out there and I'm still looking at what the weather's… — Frankie Boyle Copy Share Image
The nation of Iran is threatening to sue the makers of the movie Argo. They say the movie was an unrealistic portrayal… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
In Scotland, we're a colony in more ways than one. So when directors come up to work, there's a very particular way… — Peter Mullan Copy Share Image
“Are ye hungry?" she asked, her voice soothing. His stomach growled. "I could cut the heart out of a stag and eat… — Amy Jarecki Copy Share Image
Ever since her trip with Alexia to Scotland, Mrs. Tunstell had rather a taste for foreign travel. Alexia blamed it on the… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
My mum was working in London, so I went to school there until I was 12. But every holiday would be in… — Rachael Stirling Copy Share Image
In Russia, they have Rusalkis, and they have Selkies in Scotland, and in Fiji, you have a special mention of it. The… — Eline Powell Copy Share Image
Hearing the statistic that one in four children in Scotland suffer from poverty just made me think that if there is even… — Amy Macdonald Copy Share Image
