Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Bowie

I had a fantasy that i'd drift up to Scotland and spend my life as a faux bodhisattua.

Charles Spurgeon

The old truth that Calvin preached, that Augustine preached, that Paul preached, is the truth that I must preach to-day, or else be false to my conscience and my God. I cannot shape the truth; I know of no such thing as paring off the rough edges of a doctrine. John Knox's gospel is my gospel. That which thundered through Scotland must thunder through England again.

Alan Hansen

The second half was easy to sum up - and absolute shambles! (on England losing to Denmark 4-1)

Catherine Helen Spence

A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea.

Charlotte Mary Yonge

James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster.

Alan Cumming

I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I'm choosing my homeland. It's funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.

Sydney Smith

I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.

Alistair Darling

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

Alistair Cooke

The South is one of those kingdoms of the mind, like India or Scotland, that are neat and understandable only to people who have never been there.

Douglas Alexander

It was here in Edinburgh that in the 1980s I joined with many others to protest against Margaret Thatcher as she arrived to address the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

Alex Salmond

We are Scotland's independence generation. And our time is now

Alex Ferguson

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

Ambrose Bierce

KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.

Ciaran Hinds

I'm looking forward to locking swords with Douglas Henshall and working against the stunning backdrop of Shetland. I came to Scotland a lot in the 70s and 80s in various theatre productions and of course to film Hallam Foe but this is the furthest I've ever been.

Anne Boyd

But I fear, my lot being cast in Scotland, that beauty would not be content.

Annie Lennox

The poetic side of me is Scottish.

Jack Jones

I'm popular in the United States and I'm popular in England. England is just more concentrated. The people are closer together. Venues are closer together. Many albums of mine have been popular in England, but, no hit singles. All the hit singles I had were before I went to England. So, I'm not necessarily more popular in England, I'm just popular in England, and more so for my performances than hit records. But, I enjoy doing concert halls all over America, England, Scotland and Australia.

Pre-tournament Scotland were our 50/1 outsiders, so to say this is a shock is an understatement.

Ewan McGregor

There is some really good crack when I come back here. This is where I learned to swear.

Ewan McGregor

I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff.

Ewan McGregor

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

Moby

Scotland is one of my favourite places to perform: it's really something special. Scottish audiences are just so enthusiastic; their approach to dance music just feels similar to my own somehow.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.

The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border.

Ian Paisley

I was born in the island of Ireland. I have Irish traits in me - we don't all have the traits of what came from Scotland, there is the celtic factor... and I am an Irishman because you cannot be an Ulsterman without being an Irishman

Ian Rankin

[About a tiresome colleague]: He could bore for Scotland.

Seamus Heaney

My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.

Sean Connery

Everything I have done or attempted to do for Scotland has always been for her benefit, never my own and I defy anyone to prove otherwise.

Sean Connery

Only 4 percent of all the companies owned in Scotland have their head offices in Scotland.

Sean Connery

There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing.

Sean Connery

Scotland should be nothing less than equal with all the other nations of the world.

Hugh MacDiarmid

Scotland small? Our multiform, infinite Scotland SMALL?

Hugh Laurie

I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is.