Scotland Quotes · Page 12

The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things... after the weather.

— Billy Connolly

I was a fan like everybody else, even before I got called up for Scotland.

— Robert Snodgrass

“Still pleasant as a cornered hedgehog, and as well mannered as a badger, I see.”

— Kerrigan Byrne

It is true that I once refused to eat haggis in Scotland and this did not sit well with the local population.

— Rick Riordan

Bright was the summer of 1296. The war which had desolated Scotland was then at an end.

— Jane Porter

My favourite football memory is the opening match of France '98, and unfortunately Scotland had drawn Brazil.

— Amy Macdonald

There's hunger for playing football in general and it's an even bigger hunger when it's playing for Scotland.

— Scott McTominay

I think his team are mirroring Stuart Pearce as the player he was. (on Manchester City)

— Alex Ferguson

My religion is no garment to be put on and off with the weather. You had better know that, all of you.…

— Dudley Nichols

I know a thing or two about people in Scotland, having knocked on as many doors as I have, and they don't…

— Humza Yousaf

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

— Brian Blessed

Someone on the Scottish side of the family got me one and I never took it off. I would be down the…

— Oliver Burke

I know 'Vikings' isn't really based in magic, but it goes back to Old World spirituality and different religions, and a lot…

— Madchen Amick

My maternal grandmother was Cantonese, so I'm a quarter Chinese and half Irish and a quarter Scottish and raised by English parents…

— KT Tunstall

I'm from Scotland, one of four daughters, and we grew up moving every few years between Scotland, Portugal, Colombia and Scotland again.

— Pollyanna McIntosh

I bet when they weren't fighting, Vikings with horn helmets had to stick potatoes on the ends of the horns, so as…

— Jack Handey

“A storm in Scotland was like nothing she'd ever experienced in London. Here, the elements felt alive, sentient. This storm was a…

— Karen Ranney

Scottish operative lodges began in the seventeenth century to admit non-operative members as accepted or gentleman masons and that by the early…

— John Hamill

I don't feel we need to be independent for me to feel confident in my Scottish identity. I think Scotland is pretty…

— Nicola Sturgeon

I don't want Scotland to be more important than England. There's just a cancer of low self-esteem in Scotland and a general…

— Limmy

I've not hidden and I'll never hide the fact that I want Scotland to be an independent country. But as long as…

— Nicola Sturgeon

My caddy today was a Scot and he told me that he was cheering for Australia, which I thought was a bit…

— Andrew Strauss

There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“It was early evening twilight when we came around a corner… and there in the road was a red deer stag. He…

— Michelle Frost

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

— Nicola Sturgeon

I go to Scotland maybe three times a year, and I love it. When I'm at home, I feel at home, I…

— Gerard Butler

“His tongue tapped his top lip as he cupped her breast in his hand. "Tis boidhche --beautiful.”

— Amy Jarecki

Scotland is extraordinary as a location, the light is amazing, for instance on the west coast.

— Denis Lawson

Scotland cannot be the only 'something for nothing' country in the world.

— Johann Lamont

I was still only 19 when I went to Scotland, but it was a good loan move for me to play those…

— James Maddison

My parents are artists and they decided they would prefer to paint in the Mediterranean rather than in Scotland.

— David Russell

You have to go to Scotland at all times of the year - in order to appreciate the times when the sun…

— Bill Bailey

“By the late eighteenth century, the lowlands of Scotland had developed the most extensive system of education in”

— Thomas Sowell

My mother was from Scotland and had very fair skin... she wouldn't allow us to go in the sun.

— Julianne Moore

“Ye’re wet,” he groaned. “I’m underwater.” “I ken that, bonny. But this dampness has nothing to do with that.”

— Kerrigan Byrne

I don't live in London - I'm based in Norfolk and have a place in Scotland.

— Martin Shaw

I can't understand why people in Scotland rave about Darren Fletcher.

— Roy Keane

Scotland's relationship with Malawi is perhaps unique - with almost every town or village in Scotland having some connection.

— Nicola Sturgeon

If Scotland was independent, we'd be the 14th richest country in the developed world.

— Nicola Sturgeon

England have the best fans in the world and Scotlands fans are second to none

— Kevin Keegan