Scotland Quotes · Page 15

This is an unusual Scotland side because they have good players.

— Javier Clemente

I am legitimately Scottish. I can officially say — yes. Yeah, I am from Inverness in the Highlands of Scotland.

— Karen Gillan

My dad was a womaniser, a gambler. He was violent. They thought if they left Scotland, they would leave the problems behind.

— Jimmy Barnes

It is astonishing that the architects of variable fees in Scotland should be the Scottish Liberal Democrats.

— Wes Streeting

The countryside in Belfast is beautiful. No technical wizardry is needed to show quite how glorious it is in its natural state.

— Gwendoline Christie

I have women who offer to sleep with me all the time. But not men. They're all talk and nay action -…

— Shirley Manson

There is magic in Scotland. It's country with a lot of pride and bravery. I feel lucky to have been born into…

— Gayle Rankin

People really cannot understand the concept of a black boy in a tracksuit in London being from Scotland.

— Ncuti Gatwa

As an artist, it's a great opportunity to play a character like this [Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in The Last King of…

— Forest Whitaker

I scored nine goals for Hull and a hat-trick for Scotland in the first half of the season, you don't do that…

— Robert Snodgrass

American companies based in Scotland employ large numbers of people - in fact, we are the best performing part of the U.K.,…

— Nicola Sturgeon

I am more afraid of making a fault in my Latin than of the Kings of Spain, France, Scotland, the whole House…

— Elizabeth I

The Norse way of speaking, no one really knew what the Vikings sounded liked, they were Norsemen. The accent is really a…

— Katheryn Winnick

The idea that an independent Scotland - having separated assets and liabilities from the rest of the U.K. - would expect the…

— Johann Lamont

When I was a child, a lot of my time was spent in Scotland because my mother's Scottish, and we used to…

— Jennifer Saunders

My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some…

— Alan Hovhaness

“For some, this idea was a shade too close to the lifestyles our Nordic cousins. Hygge and lagom, the Danish and Swedish…

— Gabriella Bennett

I don't go out of my way to get noticed. When I'm in Scotland it's tough, because loads of people come up…

— Andy Murray

“Tommy looked blank. "What's a flashlight?" "You don't have flashlights?" Jessup said. "Jeeze! A cylinder, like, with batteries inside it, and a…

— Susan Cooper

“In prehistoric times, early man was bowled over by natural events: rain, thunder, lightning, the violent shaking and moving of the ground,…

— Signe Pike

My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you've just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and…

— Jay Kay

In Scotland, Catholics have raised their voices against sectarianism and intolerance directed against the Church. Clearly, these actions show that freedom of…

— Keith O'Brien

Some of the hotels I've been put up in for work in Scotland have been shockingly bad. They're the type of hotel…

— Robert Winston

“Any self respecting Scot knows that a good tartan is the solution to everything: it tells you where you are, where you…

— Trisha Telep

There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing.

— Sean Connery

“Hannah Rose Brown was not quite 13 years old when she discovered her family was cursed. THE PUZZLE RING”

— Kate Forsyth

“Hardship bred a bitter, quickfire humour and resilience to all but the most terminal of life's tragedies.”

— Ian Rankin

“God, can you imagine what discovering the Loch Ness Monster would do to Luke's ego?”

— Jacqueline E. Smith

As far as single payer, it works in Canada. It works incredibly well in Scotland.

— Donald Trump

Social injustice is what puts Scotland at its greatest disadvantage, and restoring the 50p tax rate will start to fight that.

— Johann Lamont

“I haven’t even been here an hour and already, Edinburgh is the city of my dreams.”

— Jacqueline E. Smith

Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur.

— Sydney Smith

“Edinburgh is a great big black bastard of a city where there are ghosts of all kinds.”

— Sara Sheridan

I want to play for Scotland at a major tournament, that is the dream and the drive for me.

— John McGinn

Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence.

— James Hogg

That charity fund, inside and outside Scotland is a very important identity of Celtic Football Club.

— Fergus McCann

In Scotland, when people congregate, they tend to argue and discuss and reason; in Orkney, they tell stories.

— George Mackay Brown

I like Cornwall and particularly the Isle of Mull on the west coast of Scotland where I got married. It's absolutely beautiful.

— Lee Mack

We once went 13 games without winning. There's always pressure here. Winning is always important here. How do you handle yourself and…

— Alex Ferguson

But first, the news: The House of Commons was sealed off today after police chased an escaped lunatic through the front door…

— Ronnie Barker