Quotes About Scot

Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom nor forced him wander, but confine him home.

As a Scot, I instinctively feel a sympathy towards a culture which is based on generosity. It's very refreshing. Afghans think they're the best people in the world and their country is the best place in the world, and it's strange because you go there and it doesn't really look like it, and yet they assume that everybody else envies them.

Perhaps Court was just an ignorant Scot, but he preferred two things in his surgeons: that they be sober, and that they have lived long enough to have practiced on others before getting to him.

1996, pp. 774-775) elaborated on the original SCOT model by pointing out that the way a product is interpreted is not restricted to the design stage of a technology

The angry Scot is a cliche not without some foundation. That's the Lowland Scot - I'm a Highlander. We're particularly lovely and charming.

The other white man was a Scot," said Nathaniel. "Married into the tribe, by the name Ian Murray

book of Revelation is written to shape a church surrounded by the swamping and creeping ways of Babylon.

foreignness that gave him the ability to see the distinctiveness of America.

An older, inebriated Scot who looked like he'd been sitting on his barstool all day looked me up and down, then smelled the air. Heh, neebr, goat a deid an'mal in yer bac'pac, or iz it ye tha' bloody stinks? My brain took a moment to translate. Actually, yes, there is a dead animal in my backpack, but I probably stink, too.

But as a Scot with a lifelong love of Scotland and the arts, I believe the opportunity of independence is too good to miss. Simply put there is no more creative an act than creating a new nation.

so we have no evidence to support another fantasy, namely that the city of Mekness (in Morocco) was founded by a Scot called MacNess.

A Scot is a man who keeps the Sabbath, and everything else he can lay his hands on.

As a Scot and a Presbyterian, my father believed that man by nature was a mess and had fallen from an original state of grace. Somehow, I early developed the notion that he had done this by falling from a tree. As for my father, I never knew whether he believed God was a mathematician but he certainly believed God could count and that only by picking up God's rhythms were we able to regain power and beauty. Unlike many Presbyterians, he often used the word beautiful.

I have my theories, I said before Grayling could speak. Please feel free to keep them to yourself, the Scot suggested.

In the '80s, to get a contemporary Scot who was smart, sexy and funny was very unusual.

After all, as the old Scot saying went, there wasn't much guile in a heart that was singing.

I always thought there was some reason why 'Scot' rhymed with 'plot

And then it came to me, as one of the redcoats, knocked flat by a fleeing Scot, rose and shook his fist theatrically after the horses. Of course. A film! I shook my head at my own slowness. They were shooting a costume drama of some sort, that was all. One of those Bonnie-Prince-in-the-heather sorts of things, no doubt. Well.

The man's a Scot, wee Fergus." Jamie's voice was as calm as his face, but I heard the small note of strain in it. "Whisky's what he wanted.