Scotland Quotes · Page 23

You have sensible women here [in England] but then, they are very devils--censorious, uncharitable, sarcastic--the women in Scotland have twice--thrice their freedom,…

— Fanny Burney

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

— Kevin Macdonald

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

— Anonymous

We are European citizens, as we are European citizens it means what we want to do is exactly like Scotland or Quebec.…

— Jordi Cuixart

I like to keep people around me like the guys I have on the road with me, three of them were childhood…

— Johnny Reid

My family influenced me very deeply because my dad came from a musical background, from the hillbilly music part of it, and…

— Charlie Haden

It is hard to overstate the economic importance of the U.S.A. to Scotland, and that makes it essential that we engage with…

— Nicola Sturgeon

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

— Ambrose Bierce

“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 should say that being independent in the modern model means independent in a very interdependent world. An independent Scotland is not…

— Nicola Sturgeon

But as a Scot with a lifelong love of Scotland and the arts, I believe the opportunity of independence is too good…

— Sean Connery

I can earn a great deal more money by playing football outside Scotland than I could in Scotland, but I'd still like…

— Graeme Souness

It's a tremendous honour to come away with the Scotland national team.

— Scott McTominay

My mother's side of the family tree is Scotland - Edinburgh, in fact.

— Tony Adams

“Were ye sent by the fairy folk? Do no' lie to me.”

— Amy Jarecki

“Battles against Rome have been lost and won before, but hope was never abandoned, since we were always here in reserve. We,…

— Tacitus

I'm always a player who has taken fairly rough treatment, to be honest. I think my time in Scotland typified that because…

— James Maddison

What we have to do is create the political conditions that are such that the Westminster political parties cannot deny Scotland's voice.

— Humza Yousaf

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

— Donald Trump

Northern Ireland must, in future, be absorbed into the Irish republic. Wales and Scotland must advance from devolution to full independent status.…

— Norman Davies

The old truth that Calvin preached, that Augustine preached, that Paul preached, is the truth that I must preach to-day, or else…

— Charles Spurgeon

I grew up in a very small town in Scotland, a little place called Crieff which is beautiful and it's at the…

— Ewan McGregor

I lived for a year in Scotland. British sign language is very different from American.

— I. King Jordan

The fact that I am even in the running, somebody who is the grandson of an immigrant who came in the 1960s…

— Humza Yousaf

Iceland, though it lies so far to the north that it is partly within the Arctic Circle, is, like Norway, Scotland, and…

— Harry Johnston