Scotland Quotes - Page 3

• But I fear, my lot being cast in Scotland, that beauty would not be content.

  Anne Boyd

  Casts

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• The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border.

  Goldwin Smith

  Kingdoms, England, Borders

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, author by Hunter, Rose

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• The Navy's paid for you to go through school, and then they need doctors to go out and take care of people who are in various different parts of the world. I decided to pay back my time first as an undersea medical officer. I was stationed in Scotland.

  Laurel Clark

  School, Doctors, People

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• O Scotia! my dear, my native soil!
  For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent

  Robert Burns

  Prayer, Country Love, Heaven

  Robert Burns, James Currie (1835). “The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism on His Writings”, p.123

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• Scotland is the country above all others that I have seen, in which a man of imagination may carve out his own pleasures; there are so many inhabited solitudes.

  Dorothy Wordsworth

  Country, Men, Imagination

  Dorothy Wordsworth (1875). “Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, A.D. 1803”, p.26

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• You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.

  James M. Barrie

  Men, Race, Wind

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• I started with rock n' roll and...then you start to take it apart like a child with a toy and you see there's blues and there's country...Then you go back from country into American music...and you end up in Scotland and Ireland eventually.

  Elvis Costello

  Country, Children, Rocks

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• I think Scotland could take a stand in a wonderful way, ecologically and morally and ethically.

  Annie Lennox

  Thinking, Way, Wonderful

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• [Edinburgh] is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Beautiful, Heart, Light

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• I like to keep people around me like the guys I have on the road with me, three of them were childhood friends of mine when I was growing up in Scotland. They don't look at me any different than when we were in primary school. So it's good to keep people like that around you. I think if you surround yourself with good honest people, they will tell you what to hear when you need to hear it.

  Johnny Reid

  Growing Up, School, Thinking

  "Johnny Reid headlining Fredericton's Maritime Countryfest". "Information Morning Fredericton" with Terry Seguin, www.cbc.ca. June 20, 2015.

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• Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.

  Samuel Johnson

  Horse, Food, Oats

  A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)

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• I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.

  Sydney Smith

  Switzerland, Looks, Inferiors

  Letter to Lord Holland, 1815

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• The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride; True is the charge, nor by themselves denied. Are they not then in strictest reason clear, Who wisely come to mend their fortunes here?

  Charles Churchill

  Pride, Cry, Reason

  Charles Churchill, George Gilfillan (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan”, p.68

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• There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing.

  Sean Connery

  Tin, Fantasy

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• I was born in London, and went to school in Scotland - I used to be dead tired when I got home at night.

  Norman Wisdom

  Home, Tired, School

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.

  Seamus Heaney

  Speech, Speak, Northern Ireland

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• My place in Scotland is in the middle of nowhere, so you've just got a keyboard, guitar, a little drum machine and you know if you can work stuff out like that, if you can hammer out songs that sound good just with those three things and a voice, you're on your way.

  Jay Kay

  Song, Guitar, Voice

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• There is a one woman in China that claimed she paid $50 to get my e-mail address. It was pretty shocking. I got one this morning from Scotland. A girl's requesting a signed photo of me.

  Michael Phelps

  Girl, Sports, Morning

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• I think Scotland has some great stories.

  Billy Boyd

  Thinking, Stories

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• In Scotland I'm just like a lot of other guys, but in America I'm seen as a very strong, masculine guy.

  Gerard Butler

  Strong, America, Guy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It would've cost less, and left the previous owners with nothing, to go into liquidation. But it would also be humiliating for Celtic. So we paid all the bills. Celtic means the same to me as it does to other fans. I identify with the club and wish to be proud of it.

  Fergus McCann

  Soccer, Football, Mean

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

  David Bowie

  Fantasy, Faux

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• I want to look beyond the legends, to find the real story of Scotland. And it's every bit as thrilling.

  Neil Oliver

  Real, Looks, Stories

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• The reason I'm patriotic about Scotland is because I think it's been dealt a really hard hand. It's marketed the world over as . . . haggis . . . bagpipes. But no one ever puts anything back into it.

  Alexander McQueen

  Patriotic, Thinking, Hands

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• Did not strong connections draw me elsewhere, I believe Scotland would be the country I would choose to end my days in.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Country, Strong, Believe

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