Scotland Quotes · Page 8

I won't tell anyone where my favourite place in Scotland is... but it might be somewhere on Skye.

— Sam Heughan

What is interesting to me about Vikings is that they were failed farmers.

— Roger Avary

There's just no place like Scotland when the sun is out. I just love coming home.

— Ashley Jensen

Singing Flower of Scotland was the only thing that made me nervous.I don't get nervous doing my own shows.

— Amy Macdonald

Most of my friends in London are musicians, but the ones in Scotland have proper jobs.

— KT Tunstall

I loved the pace of life and the majesty of New Zealand. It's similar to Scotland - but feels newer.

— Mark Bonnar

My parents are from Scotland and my sister and brother were both born in Scotland so my heritage is from there.

— Sam Allardyce

I'd like to visit the Faroe Islands and at some point take a boat trip along the Caledonian Canal in Scotland.

— Ruth Jones

“She drank in the sight of him, the power, the virility, the sheer sexiness. She knew just how well those lips of…

— Donna Grant

The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the…

— Goldwin Smith

It's obviously such a huge honour to be spoken about by someone like Sir Alex, never mind the nice things he was…

— Scott McTominay

As first minister, I want Scotland also to lead on tackling one of the root causes of gender-based abuse - toxic masculinity…

— Humza Yousaf

All these countries like Holland and Scotland, they create their own problems. They are always complaining, but they don't solve anything. Don't…

— Johan Cruyff

One of the attractive things about being in Scotland is that we have a very good pipeline of new people coming into…

— David Milne

There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I…

— Michael Phelps

Although I don't live there anymore, Scotland is a great place for the people coming over to visit and to tour around…

— James Cosmo

“The village lay in the hollow, and climbed, with very prosaic houses, the other side. Village architecture does not flourish in Scotland.…

— Margaret Oliphant

“The Swedes captured 5,000 new uniforms, broke into monasteries, held the monks to ransom, and opened the crypts to steal rings from…

— Peter H. Wilson

“The sound of running footsteps made them all start. Then the refectory door opened and the round, freckled face of Sister Belinda…

— Sharon Bolton

There is an immense trout in Loch Awe in Scotland, which is so voracious, and swallows his own species with such avidity,…

— Arnold Gingrich

When Tony Benn became a minister in the 1960s -- and I think this must be apocryphal -- he had a huge…

— Neal Ascherson

“News of the death of James V on 14 December gave even further cause for rejoicing, because his heir was a week-old…

— Alison Weir

A compelling and important story of First Word War Scotland, a time when women redefined the word hope as the world was…

— Ami McKay

“Amelia envisaged that between York and the royal-infested Scottish Highlands there was a grimy wasteland of derelict cranes and abandoned mills and…

— Kate Atkinson

I believe in Scotland's place within the United Kingdom today as much as ever.

— Ruth Davidson

We have a rich cultural tapestry in Scotland, it's not that there's a lack of stories.

— Douglas Henshall

I feel incredibly passionate about Scotland not becoming an independent country.

— Rose Leslie

Dean Owens is Scotland's most engaging and haunting singer-songwriter.

— Irvine Welsh

I won't be chasing down players who have retired. I only want players who are 100% committed to Scotland.

— Steve Clarke

Scotland should be nothing less than equal with all the other nations of the world.

— Sean Connery

Like millions of Scots, I've agonised over whether to go for independence or remain with the Union.

— Rory Bremner

“I'm proud of the culture I come from - we're a small country and a close-knit community.”

— Sara Sheridan

I grew up in Scotland in the 1970s. There was not much money. The most popular Christmas toy was probably a potato.

— Craig Ferguson

Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Anne Reid

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

— Annie Lennox

But I fear, my lot being cast in Scotland, that beauty would not be content.

— Anne Boyd

“In my stories, I wrote Malcolm as fire and gold and power, but here in my arms, Colin is cedar, silver, and…

— Jacqueline E. Smith

I had a fantasy that i'd drift up to Scotland and spend my life as a faux bodhisattua.

— David Bowie

There is nothing better for me than to bring the bells in, in Scotland.

— Sharleen Spiteri