Scots Quotes

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I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots… — David Cameron
A lot of Scots have settled in Canada over the years and it's a very easy place for Scots - they understand us, we understand… — Robert Carlyle
Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year. — E. O. Wilson
The Scots say that Nature itself dictated that golf should be played by the seashore. Rather, the Scots saw in the eroded sea coasts a… — Alistair Cooke
The emblem on the necktie reserved for the members of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews - The Vatican of golf -… — Alistair Cooke
[The natural world cleans water, pollinates plants and provides pharmaceuticals, among many other gifts.] Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year. — E. O. Wilson
Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins. — James Reston
For dash and gallantry the bloodthirsty Scots, Australians and Canadians led the way, with the impetuous Irish close behind. The Australian to my mind were… — Adrian Carton de Wiart
We once discussed which were the cleanest troops in the trenches, taken by nationalities. We agreed on a descending-order like this: English and German Protestants;… — Robert Graves
The Scots will do anything to beat the English or just to see them lose, but I've never bought into that really. — Gerard Butler
We Scots have a fierce pride in the things we do that others can never appreciate. I am the British No. 1, but I would… — Andy Murray
The mark of a Scot of all classes [is that] he ... remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there… — Robert Louis Stevenson
The infinitesimal seedlings became a forest of trees that grew courteously, correcting the distances between themselves as they shaped themselves to the promptings of available… — William Wilson
An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath. — C.S. Lewis
Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free. — Tammy Bruce
This reference to the Scots side of her ancestry is the first of two visual explorations into Tori Amos's diverse cultural past. As is the… — Kevyn Aucoin
Although I'm a Scot, I'd be proud to be called a Scouser. — Bill Shankly
Hobbits are a lot like Scots. Itâ€™s all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Scottish thing — Billy Boyd
You ask people what their ethnicity is, and a lot of Scots-Irish people either don't know or if they know it they just don't acknowledge… — John Shelton Reed
The Scots (originally Irish, but by now Scotch) were at this time inhabiting Ireland, having driven the Irish (Picts) out of Scotland; while the Picts… — W. C. Sellar

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