Scotland Quotes · Page 14

“Listen to the earth, Feel the fire. Allow the power to flow through ye.”

— Jean M. Grant

There's nothing like driving into Glencoe and feeling for the first time that you're in the Highlands.

— Mark Bonnar

I want to look beyond the legends, to find the real story of Scotland. And it's every bit as thrilling.

— Neil Oliver

Whenever I am not filming and not required to travel with work, I spend all my downtime in Scotland.

— Mathew Horne

I've always loved the fans in Scotland and have a little Scottish blood of my own.

— Dolly Parton

I'm intrigued by my own schizoid background which involves Scotland, Ireland and London.

— Jim Kerr

Barbour is a brand that I have grown up with and been associated with since I was living near the borders of…

— Sam Heughan

I want to do a gritty, independent film, maybe in Scotland or something. I'll have an outrageous accent, and flowing red hair.

— Emma Corrin

Scotland forms a crucial part of our Armed Forces which should not be jeopardised by rushed cuts or a rush to the…

— Philip Hammond

Something I notice speaking to writers from south of Hadrian's Wall is that the culture is different. At base, I think Scotland…

— Sara Sheridan

I tell you one you straight off in Scotland - Nick de Luca. I don't see his name quoted, but I've played…

— Brian O'Driscoll

“I went to this beautiful place where the ground moved underneath me and the air was a part of me, and where…

— Cyndi Tefft

During a period of time when Italy is talking about splitting northern and southern Italy, France is talking about splitting with Corsica…

— Juan Enriquez

“Coorie also takes into account the unique trials of living in Scotland. Instead of allowing the weather or the geography to shape…

— Gabriella Bennett

I've never seen an 'English' books section in, well, an English bookshop, but in Scotland, most bookshops have a set of shelves…

— Sara Sheridan

I grew up in Pittwater, north of Sydney; Elvina Bay, Scotland Island area. I had to go to school by boat. To…

— James Spithill

I get female groupies, but I don't get male groupies. I have women who offer to sleep with me all the time.…

— Shirley Manson

“In 869 we have an event which rapidly achieved almost mythic status in English Christian folklore: the horrible martyrdom of King Edmund…

— Heather O'Donoghue

Well, if there is a spectrum between ethnic and civic forms of nationalism, which is a rather schematic way of looking at…

— Neal Ascherson

“Brentwood stands on that fine and wealthy slope of country, one of the richest in Scotland, which lies between the Pentland Hills…

— Margaret Oliphant

“Scottish people have grasped the choice that they have to make directly  – unmediated by the political class - as an opportunity…

— Adam Ramsay

Robert Frost had a house in Bennington, Vermont, and I had a friend, the poet Mary Ruefle, who was the caretaker of…

— Doug Stanton

“Make no mistake; I know all I need to know about you, Lord Thorne.” “Do ye?” he challenged. “Sure do. You’re a…

— Kerrigan Byrne

It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is…

— Irvine Welsh

The second half was easy to sum up - and absolute shambles! (on England losing to Denmark 4-1)

— Alan Hansen

I feel Scottish when with English people, and when I'm with Scottish people, I realise I'm English.

— Nina Conti

When you hear someone from the very north of Scotland speaking, I think its nice, very musical and harmonious.

— Sean Connery

I used to come up to Scotland to see my uncle play and I would also watch him whenever he was on…

— Sean Longstaff

I love the way the game of golf is lived and played in Scotland. I always have.

— Tom Watson

You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.

— James M. Barrie

When we went to Belfast we saw some beautiful countryside and coastlines.

— Sarah Sutton

We come here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, determined to avenge our wrongs and set our country free.

— William Wallace

I think Scotland is probably my spiritual home and I love it there very, very much.

— Sharon Cameron

O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent

— Robert Burns

“Takes a special kind to go another kind to stay here … Nowhere do such patriots so embrace the leaving of the place”

— Kate Tough

Some of the Scotland players need to look themselves in the face.

— Alan Brazil

We have...dragons. Most people would leave. Not us. We're Vikings. We have, stubbornness issues.

— Hiccup

One good thing about rain in Scotland. Most of it ends up as scotch.

— Peter Alliss

Location is everything, I'd rather camp in the Lake District or Scotland than sit in a five-star hotel in Frankfurt.

— Rory Bremner

Over the next few days we want cities, towns and villages across the UK to send a message to Scotland: stay with…

— Ed Miliband