Scotland Quotes · Page 17

People often write to me, addressing the envelope, 'Stephen Hendry, Snooker Player' or 'Stephen Hendry, Scotland,' and it reaches me.

— Stephen Hendry

Scotland never voted for Margaret Thatcher.

— Nicola Sturgeon

The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity…

— Edward Irving

America changed my life, but I still think of home and working in Scotland was an important part of that.

— Davy Jones

Is it not typical that we have a Tory Government that wants, just like its pals in the Labour Party, constantly to…

— Nicola Sturgeon

I spent loads of time in Scotland as a kid. My dad would take us back up to Aberdeen loads, and I…

— Andrew Buchan

I love Scotland - I was made an honorary Wallace after my work on 'Braveheart,' you know. If I have two or…

— Brian Blessed

“So there comes a moment when we turn and look at each other - England and Scotland - and realise we just…

— David Greig

Labour long ago realised it could no longer automatically assume that it would win elections in Glasgow and other places where it…

— Nicola Sturgeon

Pretty much every artist in Scotland - musician, writer, poet, actor - they're all part of a thing called the National Collective.

— Roddy Woomble

When I went to Scotland to do another movie, I would sing with a coach up there and then when I went…

— Gerard Butler

I was stuck on the side of a mountain in Scotland. I was looking down on emptiness. I lay on my back…

— Ivor Cutler

With 'Shallow Grave' people realised that you could set a film in Scotland and it didn't have to be about leaky boats…

— Douglas Henshall

I've always been an outsider. Even in London. If I returned to Scotland, I'd feel a complete foreigner.

— Peter Doig

The great outdoors is a theme with me; a walking holiday in Scotland is perfect - Culloden and the forests of Aviemore…

— Erin O'Connor

I think Scotland could take a stand in a wonderful way, ecologically and morally and ethically.

— Annie Lennox

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

— Nicola Sturgeon

Two negatives make a positive but only in Scotland do two positives make a negative: aye right.

— Frankie Boyle

I like watching DVDs, flying my plane, walking and going to my place in Scotland. I like yoga. It takes me a…

— Martin Shaw

I started writing novels while an undergraduate student, in an attempt to make sense of the city of Edinburgh, using a detective…

— Ian Rankin

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

— Sean Connery

I would like to apologise to anyone who has put a bet on me becoming the next Scotland manager.

— Neil Warnock

I think Scotland has some great stories.

— Billy Boyd

My father was full of tales. He said his family were ministers in the Church of Scotland, or they were lawyers.

— Anne Reid

I am William Wallace... And the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them there that Scotland's…

— William Wallace