Scotland Quotes · Page 11

There's nothing quite like a Scotch education. One is left with an irreparable debt. My head is full of irregular verbs still.

— Ivor Cutler

When the Vikings moved into a place they just kind of killed everybody who was there before them.

— Jon Gnarr

I used the same designer and costume designer on 'The Eagle' and 'The Last King of Scotland.'

— Kevin Macdonald

I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but the Navy, having left school at 13.

— Sean Connery

It seems strange that almost no other traces of the strong vikings are found in America.

— Ellsworth Huntington

Politics in Scotland is far too important to be taken seriously.

— Rory Bremner

Scotland is undoubtedly the star of 'Outlander.' I'm so proud of the country and all it has to offer.

— Sam Heughan

People in Scotland don't take too kindly to being lectured by a Tory Chancellor.

— Nicola Sturgeon

“After a taste of a Scot, you'll never look elsewhere again." A brunette smiled seductively, "That's quite a boast." "I'm quite a…

— Donna Grant

When you are growing up to even be involved in a Scotland squad is a massive achievement, to go on and play…

— John McGinn

I was born in Scotland and have lived there all my life. I speak conversational Cantonese with my dad when I'm at…

— Katie Leung

Scotland has never ceased to amaze the world with its forward vision, bold action and great educational institutions. Nothing makes me more…

— Anonymous

Well he's only 20. Without question, he's the best youngest player I've seen in my time... If he keeps developing and matures…

— Alex Ferguson

Windmills are going to be the death of Scotland and even England if they don't do something about them. They are ruining…

— Donald Trump

Anybody who is thinking of applying for the Scotland job in the next eight or nine years should go get themselves checked…

— Martin O'Neill

In 18th-century Scotland, the main event was the Jacobite rebellion under Bonnie Prince Charlie, so that seems like a nice dramatic backdrop.

— 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

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

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

— Elaine Coffman

There are many kinds of revelation. But the most powerful is the vision which transcends the mental boundary between life and non-life,…

— Neal Ascherson

England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud…

— Lydia M. Child

“He was waiting there for her beside the pool - a great black horse with shoulders like polished ebony and the water…

— Mollie Hunter

“But I do like Scotland. I like the miserable weather. I like the miserable people, the fatalism, the negativity, the violence that's…

— James Robertson

I love the traditional music of all our islands - Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales , but I suppose I'm viewed pretty…

— Ralph McTell

The U.K.'s debt belongs legally to Westminster, so Scotland, by definition, can't default on it.

— Nicola Sturgeon

The Vikings were the last people to fight with axes, which must have been horrible.

— Travis Fimmel

Climate Change led to the Vikings dominating Europe for several hundred years.

— Morgan Griffith

Labour's support in Scotland depends on their ability to be electable. If they are divided and unelectable, what's the point?

— Nicola Sturgeon

Only 4 percent of all the companies owned in Scotland have their head offices in Scotland.

— Sean Connery

It's been such a special feeling pulling on that Scotland jersey since I was 16 years old.

— Robert Snodgrass

I was born in Cambridgeshire and moved to Scotland when I was seven.

— Louise Wilson

Scotland is a great nation, but its horses are very uncomfortable.

— Mel Gibson

He is improving all the time. He is only 21 and who knows what he is capable of. (on Cristiano Ronaldo)

— Alex Ferguson

“The mug was so warm, and my hands so cold, that it didn't feel as if we belonged in the same universe.”

— Harper Fox

Lawrence Millman is a favorite writer of mine. He did a travels on the trail of the Vikings.

— John Gimlette

Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.

— Billy Connolly

I used to row as a junior for Scotland but I was never massive, I was always tall and rangey.

— Chris Hoy

KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.

— Ambrose Bierce

My wife, who hated every place she'd been to in her life, absolutely loved it in Scotland.

— Martin O'Neill

Every austerity measure that Cameron and George Osborne make is being presented in Scotland as the English starving us.

— Norman Davies