Scotland Quotes - Page 2

• The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others.

  Edward Irving

  Respect, Heart, Grieving

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• Scotland is one of my favourite places to perform: it's really something special. Scottish audiences are just so enthusiastic; their approach to dance music just feels similar to my own somehow.

  Moby

  Special, Scottish, Favourite

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• Only 4 percent of all the companies owned in Scotland have their head offices in Scotland.

  Sean Connery

  Office, Company, Percent

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• We are also fortunate in being in quite a sheltered environment, in terms of people moving on to do other things, because there are relatively few companies in Scotland that are looking for the skill set that we've developed.

  David Milne

  Moving On, Skills, People

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• From the time of the North Briton of the unprincipled Wilkes , a notion has been entertained that the moral spine in Scotland is more flexible than in England. The truth however is, that an elementary difference exists in the public feelings of the two nations quite as great as in the idioms of their respective dialects. The English are a justice-loving people, according to charter and statute; the Scotch are a wrong-resenting race, according to right and feeling: and the character of liberty among them takes its aspect from that peculiarity.

  John Galt

  Character, Two, Differences

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• Anybody who is thinking of applying for the Scotland job in the next eight or nine years should go get themselves checked out by about 15 psychiatrists.

  Martin O'Neill

  Jobs, Thinking, Eight

  "Ireland's Martin O'Neill now faces battle to stop career petering out" by Ewan Murray, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2015.

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• I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is.

  Hugh Laurie

  Enlightenment, May, Pages

  Interview with Emma Thompson, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.

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• One of the attractive things about being in Scotland is that we have a very good pipeline of new people coming into the company from the excellent universities around us.

  David Milne

  Attractive Things, People, Pipeline

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• I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff.

  Ewan McGregor

  Guitar, Band, Stuff

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• I loved being in Trainspotting and having to dive into the filthiest toilet in Scotland.

  Ewan McGregor

  Trainspotting, Toilets

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• Scotland has never ceased to amaze the world with its forward vision, bold action and great educational institutions. Nothing makes me more proud than to promote this wonderful land with all its richness and diversity wherever I go.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Educational, Land, Diversity

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• Now the summer's in prime Wi' the flowers richly blooming, And the wild mountain thyme A' the moorlands perfuming. To own dear native scenes Let us journey together, Where glad innocence reigns 'Mang the braes o' Balquhither.

  Robert Tannahill

  Summer, Flower, Journey

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• It 's guid to be merry and wise, It 's guid to be honest and true, It 's guid to support Caledonia's cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.

  Robert Burns

  Wise, Honesty, Blue

  Robert Burns, Gilbert BURNS, Allan Cunningham (1840). “The Works of Robert Burns. With Life by Allan Cunningham, and Notes by Gilbert Burns [and Others], Etc. [With a Portrait and Facsimiles.]”, p.436

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• My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland.

  Alan Hovhaness

  Mother, New York, Scottish

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• I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain's success - so for me there's no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation.

  David Cameron

  Independent, Hands, Way

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• I've always been hopeful about Scotland's prospects. And I now believe more than ever that Scotland is within touching distance of achieving independence and equality.

  Sean Connery

  Distance, Believe, Hopeful

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• I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.

  Loretta Lynn

  Mountain, England, Kind

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.30, Vintage

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• When you hear someone from the very north of Scotland speaking, I think its nice, very musical and harmonious.

  Sean Connery

  Nice, Thinking, Talking

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• I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but the Navy, having left school at 13.

  Sean Connery

  School, Navy, Qualifications

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• It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea.

  Charles Lyell

  Beach, Marine, Sea

  Sir Charles Lyell (1863). “The Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man”, p.47

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• The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.

  James M. Barrie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)”, p.85, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Where is the coward that would not dare to fight for such a land as Scotland?

  Walter Scott

  Fighting, Land, Patriotism

  Walter Scott, John Gibson Lockhart (1839). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Comprising Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border ...”, p.408

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• James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster.

  Charlotte Mary Yonge

  Travel, Space, Progress

  Charlotte Mary Yonge (2015). “Delphi Complete Novels of Charlotte Mary Yonge (Illustrated)”, p.7498, Delphi Classics

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• The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad.

  George Orwell

  War, Home, Miserable

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• It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. It's a cliche, but it's said that people who read my books don't read any other books, and you do get that element.

  Irvine Welsh

  Book, Reading, People

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