Quotes About Scotland

In Scotland, Dad grew courgettes which were the size of my leg. I'd step into the garden and it was like 'The Day of the Triffids.'

True gender equality in Scotland - and elsewhere - is still some way off.

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

I was born in Glasgow and brought up in a place in between Glasgow and Edinburgh called West Lothian!

I like the Edinburgh Film Festival, and I've liked what I've experienced of Glasgow's Film Festival too.

I really enjoy travel, I enjoy the U.K., I enjoy Scotland, Glasgow.

Glasgow is one of my favourite cities.

I did 'Formula 51' because I got to run around Liverpool in a kilt, with golf clubs.

In my book 'The Winter Sea,' set north of Aberdeen, I couldn't just ignore the fact some people there - especially the people in the past - would speak the Doric.

Witches were burned and killed in Scotland and England for centuries before what happened in Salem.

There's a real emphasis on being witty in Scotland, even in crime novels.

Apex predators are good for an environment in terms of biodiversity and trophic cascade - we have very few. But realistically, only a few areas could sustain free-roaming wolves in Britain, mostly in Scotland.

I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it.

Growing up in Scotland and living in Glasgow, you see the heritage that religion has had and how something that, in theory, is about kindness and community and caring for each other is used to persecute people.

I lived in Scotland a long time, and I became aware of Mogwai really from the beginning. They seemed to be fusing hard music structure and sort of raw sonics. They're just very creative thinkers, musical thinkers.

I'm interested in Scotland now and then, how it's changed. I want to get the reader to think about that by thinking about something from the past. How has society changed, how has policing changed, have we changed philosophically, psychologically, culturally, spiritually?

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

The first big drive I did I bought an Aston Martin and drove it from London to Scotland and had a fantastic drive. The last thirty miles is really twisty road that I know like the back of my hand, and it was just wonderful to get behind and have a really fun drive again.

In Russia, they have Rusalkis, and they have Selkies in Scotland, and in Fiji, you have a special mention of it. The first earliest mermaid mentioned in history books was Atargartis in Assyria, a thousand B.C... In Africa, you have Mami Wata.

My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life.

For me as leader my time is nearly over but for Scotland the campaign continues and the dream will never die.

The two groupings soon acquired names, originally intended as insults. Those hostile to the Duke of York were known as "Whigs," short for "Whiggamore," a term formerly applied to extremist Presbyterian rebels in Scotland. Their more traditionalist opponents were dubbed "Tories," after the lawless Catholic bandits who rampaged in Ireland.

You know, you say 'not exactly' a lot. You're not exactly a vampire. You're not exactly from Scotland, and you're allergic to daylight. What else? (Sunshine) I hate bran muffins and grass. (Talon)

We usually think that a strong economy leads to an increase in life satisfaction among the population. We found that's not the case in Scotland.