Quotes About Scotland

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

I was born in Scotland and have lived there all my life. I speak conversational Cantonese with my dad when I'm at home, and very basic Mandarin.

Well, I was born in Scotland and spent the first six years of my life there. Then I went to Newcastle-On-Tyne in northeast England, close to Scotland.

She made it plain that she liked Scotland much better than England. No comment.*

the smoke of Patrick Hamilton hath infected all those on whom it blew.

Scotland, say, and in Montana?" I did not. "Well," he proceeded, "over in Scotland when a feller sees a sheepman coming down the road with his sheep, he says: 'Behold the gentle shepherd with his fleecy flock!' That's poetry. Now in Montana, that same feller says, when he sees the same feller coming over a ridge with the same sheep: 'Look at that crazy blankety-blank with his woolies!' That's fact. You mind what I say, or you'll get spurred.

Darnley was the first to appear. He entered the supper room and spoke to Mary.

Scotland? Dru-Ann wonders if Nick feels that Phineas's remarkable showing somehow justifies Posey's decision to quit the Dow. He had a dream he was going to win. Maybe Nick thinks it's romantic, Posey sacrificing her own nearly certain victory to be at her boyfriend's side. It's not romantic, Dru-Ann thinks. It's pitiful! While Avalon is making herself an herbal tea

Keith topped six feet, broad chest and thick limbs showing the heritage of the same Norse raiders who had left Scotland his burnished red hair and the feral gleam in his eyes. Those eyes were level with Fyodor's chin, when Fyodor straightened to his full height.

And all the while, hanging over them was the shadow of the Scottish Highlands. For the purple-gray mountains that rose up to the north of Edinburgh were inhabited by fearsome men in kilts: beings who seemed more like beasts than men.

Still, the 1745 revolt left behind a sobering question for the Enlightenment to ponder. Why do some societies like England and France and cities like Edinburgh become polite and commercial, while so many others do not—even when they are right next door? Unlocking that mystery became the next great goal for the Enlightenment, and the Scottish Enlightenment in particular.

Scottish Whigs had helped to defeat Jacobitism in order to give birth to a new enlightened Scotland. They got their wish— with a vengeance. The years after 1745 witnessed an explosion of cultural and economic activity all across Scotland, as if the collapse of the Jacobite and Highland threat had released a tremendous pent-up store of national energy. It was economic "takeoff" in the full modern sense.

Yet we should remember that the Covenanters were inspired less by their love of democracy than by their hatred of Satan.

that famous motto that sits above Christopher Wren's tomb at Westminster Abbey... "If you seek his monument, look around you" - meaning London, 17th Century London. I think it's a motto that very much applies to the Scottish contribution to the modern World: that if you seek their monument, the Scots' monument, look around you.

Scotland became Europe's first modern literate society. This meant that there was an audience not only for the Bible but for other books as well.

Legends, myths, miracles, and symbols: a far cry from the practical and precise hardheaded world Scotland and the Scots had inhabited since the Act of Union.

I have always admired the games between Celtic and Rangers. That's one of the games that you always watch when it's happening.

Scottish football has always been about Celtic and Rangers, but we've rattled some cages and that's been good. The more competition they have, the better for Scotland as a whole.

I can earn a great deal more money by playing football outside Scotland than I could in Scotland, but I'd still like to be player-manager of Rangers one day.

For the Scottish government, the practice of having meetings in different parts of the country is well established, but for the U.K. government, it is a much rarer event.

Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.

With 'Shallow Grave' people realised that you could set a film in Scotland and it didn't have to be about leaky boats in the Highlands. Then 'Trainspotting' made it fashionable.

I love playing for Scotland; it's my country, it's where I was born, and every time I wear the badge it's a dream come true - goosebumps.

I was born in Peebles and my grandparents lived in Colinton so I spent time there.