Browsing Topic Best Scotland Quotes

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

Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows – the south and east oriels – are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.

My father is from Newark in Nottinghamshire and my mother is from the very north of Ireland. They’ve ended up in Scotland, where my father – well, both of them – will always be seen as having come from somewhere else.

David impresses by his example on the field. He never stops running, he plays with supreme confidence, he always tries his hardest and he scores important goals. (on David Beckham)

He’s a normal, likable, straightforward boy. (on David Beckham)

The South is one of those kingdoms of the mind, like India or Scotland, that are neat and understandable only to people who have never been there.

For me as leader my time is nearly over but for Scotland the campaign continues and the dream will never die.

Scotland have this habit of kicking themselves in the foot

The second half was easy to sum up – and absolute shambles! (on England losing to Denmark 4-1)

The question is not whether Scotland can survive as a separate state. Of course it could.

Souness critics must eat humble pie as he transforms Newcastle.

There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know well that I have it in me to make my name famous. No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done. And what is the result? There is no crime to detect, or, at most, some bungling villainy with a motive so transparent that even a Scotland Yard official can see through it.

The religion in Scotland is one of the most patronising things… after the weather.

There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.

In any normal season, most of the teams below Chelsea would think they are doing quite well.

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

I’d always had an interest in guitar from about seven years old. But I first actually had lessons when I was about fifteen in Scotland, in Edinburgh. There was a folk club there and a girl called Jill Doyle taught me the guitar, who happened to be Davey Graham’s sister. Davey Graham is one of my heroes and always has been. Fantastic guitar player. And he’s had a strong influence on me all the way through.

Our Scottish theory … is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country.

What most people don’t understand is that UFOs are on a cosmic tourist route. That’s why they’re always seen in Arizona, Scotland, and New Mexico. Another thing to consider is that all three of those destinations are good places to play golf. So there’s possibly some connection between aliens and golf.

The poetic side of me is Scottish.

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.

Both Plockton and the Isle of Muck in north-west Scotland are incredibly beautiful. Sadly, Plockton has been discovered by tourists because it’s where they shot Hamish Macbeth.

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

I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I’m choosing my homeland. It’s funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.

Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.

I love Scotland and I speak about it a lot, so people think I’m desperate to go back. They just take it upon themselves to say I’m going back, but I’m not. I’d rather concentrate on becoming a citizen of the world.

We are Scotland’s independence generation. And our time is now

I think Scotland has some great stories.

The most important thing in a game like that is to win it.

On general principles, it is best that I should not leave the country. Scotland Yard feels lonely without me, and it causes an unhealthy excitement among the criminal classes.

We who represent the Unionist Party in England and Scotland have supported, and we mean to support to the end, the loyal minority [in Ireland]. We support them not because we are intolerant, but because their claims are just.

I don’t go out of my way to get noticed. When I’m in Scotland it’s tough, because loads of people come up to me. They’re always really polite. It’s nice, it’s fun and good to speak to people who aren’t involved in tennis, but some have this habit of just staring at me and that makes me really self-conscious. I’d rather they came up and said hello.

I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn’t know what to say.

After I’ve been in America for a while, I get homesick for Scotland.

How can the United States be competitive globally if higher education is unaffordable? Germany, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Scotland and Sweden have no tuition for college. Other countries have low tuition. We need the best educated workforce in the world. Instead of spending endless amounts on the military, we need to invest in our young people.