Quotes About Fife

Mum and Dad ran a seaside hotel in Anstruther in Fife. It was a family run business, so I worked in the kitchen and helped out as a chambermaid and waitress.

Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.

Flags were everywhere, and in the Square the band was playing "Yankee Doodle." The fifes tooted and the flutes shrilled and the drums came in with rub-a-dub-dub. Yankee Doodle went to town, Riding on a pony, He stuck a feather in his hat And called it macaroni!

Other prime ministers leave office and stay in London. I have come back with my whole family to Fife. This is where they are being brought up. It is better for them and better for me. It's great to see more of the kids.

'The Asylum Dance' was written after I'd moved back to Scotland and was a response to moving to my old home area of Fife.

Oh, beat the drum slowly and play the fife lowly,Play the Dead March as you carry me along;Take me to the green valley, there lay the sod o'er me,For I'm a young cowboy and I know I've done wrong.

From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London.

I went to school in a place called Dunfermline, which is in Fife - it's like the middle of Scotland - so I didn't have sprawling lawns of green and high school bomber jackets and an amazing clock tower.

Cinema dominated the Fife coalfield towns. We lived in Lochgelly, but my mum was caught up in Hollywood. She was in love with the style and glamour. Sometimes she would come with me to the cinema in the afternoons, and she would say things like, 'I wouldn't mind a peck with Gregory.'

West-central Fife could use a spot of communion itself. It would drink the wine and pawn the chalice.

Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.

Buchan was brought up in Kirkcaldy, Fife, and enjoyed many summer holidays with his grandparents in Broughton, in the Scottish Borders, where he developed a fascination of Scottish history and tales of old heroes, much like how his great idol Sir Walter Scott had done a century before. The young Buchan also developed a love of the local scenery and wildlife, which often feature in detail throughout his novels.

This, said Moray, who was himself in Fife and saw none of the events he so boldly claimed to be describing