Give me but one hour of Scotland, Let me see it ere I die. — William Edmondstoune Aytoun Copy Share Image
Beautiful, Glorious Scotland, has spoilt me for every other country. — Mary Todd Lincoln Copy Share Image
Evolution happens. There's no football team in the world that has stayed together for time ever more. — Alex Ferguson Copy Share Image
I don't think that the Scots are happy to drift into Britain becoming the poorest of the poor, sub-American 51st state. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
“Tis best to weight the enemy more mighty than he seems.” Or she, as was this particular case.” — Kerrigan Byrne Copy Share Image
I used the same designer and costume designer on 'The Eagle' and 'The Last King of Scotland.' — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
It seems strange that almost no other traces of the strong vikings are found in America. — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but the Navy, having left school at 13. — Sean Connery Copy Share Image
People often write to me, addressing the envelope, 'Stephen Hendry, Snooker Player' or 'Stephen Hendry, Scotland,' and it reaches me. — Stephen Hendry Copy Share Image
One thing we do know is that mass literacy is a product of the 19th century, at least in English-speaking cultures -… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
When you go away, you see where you come from in a different light. I see Scotland, and the rest of Britain,… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
It took me some time to get used to the game in Scotland because it was very different. The game is quicker… — Teemu Pukki Copy Share Image
“A peaceful refuge in which to rediscover each other, we thought,, not realizing that, while golf and fishing are Scotland's most popular… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I'm really interested in history and when I looked into the settlers who came to my home state, North Carolina, I found… — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
“So there comes a moment when we turn and look at each other - England and Scotland - and realise we just… — David Greig Copy Share Image
Too often in the past, Scotland has been sidelined and ignored in the Westminster corridors of power, but that doesn't have to… — Nicola Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Well, if there is a spectrum between ethnic and civic forms of nationalism, which is a rather schematic way of looking at… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
“Brentwood stands on that fine and wealthy slope of country, one of the richest in Scotland, which lies between the Pentland Hills… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
“Make no mistake; I know all I need to know about you, Lord Thorne.” “Do ye?” he challenged. “Sure do. You’re a… — Kerrigan Byrne Copy Share Image
“Scottish people have grasped the choice that they have to make directly – unmediated by the political class - as an opportunity… — Adam Ramsay Copy Share Image
Robert Frost had a house in Bennington, Vermont, and I had a friend, the poet Mary Ruefle, who was the caretaker of… — Doug Stanton Copy Share Image
I hope that audiences respond really positively. I think it's a very intense, entertaining film [The Last King of Scotland], because you're… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
“Even in terms of fiction, nothing in their lives became them like the leaving of it. King Fjolnir rose in the night… — Gwyn Jones Copy Share Image
For months, people have been asking my views about the Scottish independence referendum, and I've been saying, 'It's not my country; I… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“How the Vikings of Old Sought and Found New Lands” — H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth) Marshall Copy Share Image