Quotes About Highlands

I have never wanted to check out the family folklore that we could be traced back to a dominie at the hamlet of Balquhidder in the Scottish highlands.

Every time I had a vision of myself lying dead somewhere, it was up there, in the Highlands.

As the Yankee Doodle Dandies climbed into the altiplano (highlands), they sang the popular songs of the day, one of which, "Green Grow the Lilacs Oh," became their signature tune, and forever after they would be known as "greengos.

Up in this high air you breathed easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightness of heart. In the highlands you woke up in the morning and

Up in this high air you breathed easily, drawing in a vital assurance and lightness of heart. In the highlands you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be. • KAREN BLIXEN, Out of Africa

He watched her emerald eyes darken with need until they were the color of the Highland hills warmed by the summer sun.

One of my favourite plants is English lavender but it doesn't have the best reputation for growing in the Highlands.

a group of villagers in the highlands of Vietnam, he'd discovered the crash site of four U.S. soldiers who had gone missing fifty years before.

She spoke the language of the Scottish Highlands (which is like singing).

Wee Archie was wielding a shepherd's crook that, as Tommy remarked later, no shepherd would be found dead with, and he was wearing a kilt that no Highlander would dream of being found alive in.

I somberly reflected that the history of the Highlands is five hundred years of cruelty and bloodshed followed by two hundred years of way too much bagpipe music.

It's a strange thing because nobody can say exactly where the Scottish Highlands begin and end, but there comes a moment when the world fills with clean, sparkling air and the mountains take on a kind of purply glory and you know you are there. That's what I was looking

He called you Duncan,' she said. 'I heard him. Aren't you worried I'll tell someone your name and the true identity of the Highland Butcher will be discovered?' 'There are hundreds of Duncans in the Highlands, lass - so no, I'll not lose any sleep over it. And since you're asking more questions, are you not worried I'll change my mind and slit your throat after all?' He paused. 'Since you know my name.

As maize became important for human food worldwide, modern agricultural research on maize breeding continued the corn breeding begun thousands of years ago in the Central American highlands.

If you want something Scottish, go get yourself a kilt.

Reluctantly he turned to Ramsay. "Jillian, I'd like you to meet--" Ramsay Logan," Ramsay interrupted, thrusting himself forward. "Chieftan of the largest keep in the Highlands and--" "My ass, you are." Quinn snorted. "The Logan scarcely has a pot to"--he broke off and cleared his throat--"cook in.

A perennial problem that has faced the Scottish Highlands is that, time and again, too many of the more talented young people have had to move elsewhere - even abroad - through a lack of opportunities that should have been available.

Coyotes have the gift of seldom being seen; they keep to the edge of vision and beyond, loping in and out of cover on the plains and highlands. And at night, when the whole world belongs to them, they parley at the river with the dogs, their higher, sharper voices full of authority and rebuke. They are an old council of clowns, and they are listened to.

Oh, no," Hope said. "I'm not. No, I don't believe in all that , but it's - well, it's two things. One is my job, you know? In China? So I'm all for that side of it, the war and so on; we really have to, you know, defeat those people. And the other is, uh, my husband. He's from the Highlands and he's half native, as he puts it, and I don't know if you know what the people up there are like, but I swear if he even thought I was going to vote any other way he'd walk out on me.

He who first met the Highlands' swelling blue Will love each peak that shows a kindred hue, Hail in each crag a friend's familiar face, And clasp the mountain in his mind's embrace.

My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.

There are few places in my life that I've found more ruggedly beautiful than the Highlands of Scotland. The place is magical - it's so far north, so remote, that sometimes it feels like you've left this world and gone to another.

Al Qaeda's vision of global jihad doesn't resonate in the rugged highlands and windswept deserts of southern Afghanistan. Instead, the major concern throughout much of the country is intensely local: personal safety.

There in the highlands, clear weather held for much of the time. The air lacked its usual haze, and the view stretched on and on across rows of blue mountains, each paler than the last until the final ranks were indistinguishable from the sky. It was as if all the world might be composed of nothing but valley and ridge.