Bridge Quote by Johann Lamont

My uncle was skipper on the old Claymore sailing out from Oban to the Inner Hebrides. My father worked for MacBraynes all his life,…

— Johann Lamont

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

— Sam Heughan

Mine wasn't a lakes-and-boats kind of childhood. I grew up on a Glasgow council estate with a single mother. For our holidays, we went…

— Kelly Macdonald

My dad loved Scotland, so we would pile into his caravan and head for the Highlands, to Fort William and Loch Ness. It was…

— Rick Astley

I feel at home in Scotland and go back whenever I can. I've played the Edinburgh Festival twice, and I get the train across…

— Kenneth Cranham

I always went to Ireland as a child. I remember trips to Dundalk, Wexford, Cork and Dublin. My gran was born in Dublin, and…

— Vinnie Jones

I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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

— Ruth Jones

Of course I've had my moments of wanting to go back to Scotland, and I almost did a couple of times, but other things…

— Peter Capaldi

When I was a child, a lot of my time was spent in Scotland because my mother's Scottish, and we used to go up…

— Jennifer Saunders

I'm sad to say that I've never really kept in touch with my Scottish roots. We never went up there when I was a…

— David Essex

I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin.

— Greta Scacchi