Scotland Quotes · Page 13

The big issues, the things that scar Scotland - the least of them is whether we should have a border at Gretna…

— Johann Lamont

I have planted over 6,000 trees at home in Scotland, some of them oak. I'd like my children to be able to…

— Rory Stewart

I come from a working class community in eastern Scotland, and I've always been a populist, though not a patronising populist.

— Brian Cox

People in Scotland appreciate homegrown talent, but it's getting harder and harder to get films made in Britain.

— Robert Carlyle

No one anticipated the SNP wiping out Labour in Scotland in 2015.

— Luciana Berger

I loved being in Trainspotting and having to dive into the filthiest toilet in Scotland.

— Ewan McGregor

You have to live and breathe Scotland if you're 'Scotsman' editor.

— Andrew Neil

I want to change Scotland, but the only way we can change Scotland is by changing the Scottish Labour Party.

— Johann Lamont

Well, I was very lucky. I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music…

— Clive Anderson

I remember my dad came from Ireland and Scotland, and so he carried with him the fear of poverty. So when I…

— Robert Redford

In the 1990s, from the estates of Scotland came the phenomenon of Irvine Welsh. 'Trainspotting' demanded its place not only in the…

— Melvyn Bragg

That’s it,” she said, balling her hands in fists. “I’m not letting you out of it this time. I insist that you…

— Tessa Dare

My name is actually quite a popular name in Scotland. People elsewhere always think it's far more exotic than it is. In…

— Isla Fisher

It doesn't matter if it's soggy or it's sunny, there are so many lovely roads and awesome rugged countryside in Scotland -…

— Edd China

It would be a very serious mistake for the U.K. to vote to leave the European Union, and I think it would…

— Nicola Sturgeon

“I groaned as me limbs grew to immense proportions an' me neck stretched. Moss-coloured scales emerged upon me slick skin. Me snout…

— K.V. Wilson

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

— Johnny Reid

I was only in Scotland for four months or something, but I look back at that, and it was a big learning…

— James Maddison

What is a career, actually? Nobody can destroy my career. Only I can destroy my career, if I am a bad conductor.…

— Neeme Jarvi

I found the people to be very kind and generous. It was unique because the crew was mainly Ugandan [filming The Last…

— Forest Whitaker

“Dear friends, he began, there is no timetable for happiness; it moves, I think, according to rules of its own. When I…

— Alexander McCall Smith

These developments - a massive transfer of land by way of inheritance and purchase, an unprecedented rise in the profitability of land…

— Linda Colley

“Scotland can exist fully if we dream hard enough, Julie. I just can’t relate to that Scottish deep-fried-chip-on-the-shoulder. Trainspotting was wrong: it…

— Alan Bissett

With 'The Tudors,' I had a huge amount of material - I mean, so many books and so much stuff about what…

— Michael Hirst

The question is not whether Scotland can survive as a separate state. Of course it could.

— Alistair Darling

“Holy fairy feathers, why does he have to be so handsome? Why couldn't a haggard old man have washed ashore?”

— Amy Jarecki

They say that the older you get, the more conservative you become: perhaps that's the reason there are no Tories in Scotland.

— Frankie Boyle

“I suppose there are some advantages to this place,' he admitted. 'I bet it's fucking raining in Stirling.”

— Christopher Brookmyre

When the British Open is in Scotland, there's something special about it. And when it's at St. Andrews, it's even greater.

— Jack Nicklaus

I am more relaxed at home in Scotland, and my children are of an age where I want us, as a family,…

— Rory Bremner

I fell in love with Scotland and made good friends here, so I stayed after graduating with Honours in Chemistry.

— Steve Blake

But there is always that unpredictability about a derby match and that's what it was today.

— Alex Ferguson

“Christmas was not officially restored as a full holiday in Scotland until 1958.”

— Jeff Guinn

For someone who doesn't live there, when I go back to Scotland it's very weird for me.

— Jimmy Somerville

I love Scotland. Edinburgh is a beautiful city and has a wonderful tradition of supporting the arts.

— Peter Hambleton

“You boys may be gentlemen," Dusty said. "But I'm about to shoot like a lady. You ready, baby?”

— Stephanie Kate Strohm

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

— Craig Ferguson

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

— Sara Sheridan

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