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• I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.

  Colin Hay

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Coast, Scotland

• In Scotland, beautiful as it is, it was always raining. Even when it wasn’t raining, it was about to rain, or had just rained. It’s a very angry sky.

  Colin Hay

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rained, Scotland

• Carrick for a man, kyle for a coo, Cunningham for corn and ale, and a Galloway for woo’.

  Topics in Scottish Proverbs

  Tags in Scotland

• I hae a Scotch tongue in my head-if they speak I’se answer.

  Topics in Scottish Proverbs

  Tags in Scotland

• Scotsmen aye tak their mark frae a mischief.

  Topics in Scottish Proverbs

  Tags in Scotland

• The Englishman greets, the Irishman sleeps, but the Scotsman gangs till he gets it.

  Topics in Scottish Proverbs

  Tags in Scotland

• A scots mist will weet an Englishman to the skin.

  Topics in Scottish Proverbs

  Tags in Scotland

• It is not whether an independent Scotland could go it alone and develop its own defence forces – of course it could – but what sort of forces would they be?

  Philip Hammond

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Independent, Scotland

• I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn’t play to draw the attention of people abroad.

  Walter Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Scotland, Abroad

• 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.

  Ali Smith

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Scotland, Ireland

• America changed my life, but I still think of home and working in Scotland was an important part of that.

  David Thomas Jones

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Changed, Scotland

• The Evangelical party in the Church of Scotland will lay all flat if they be not prevented.

  Edward Irving

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Church, Scotland

• 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

  Topics in Respect

  Tags in Heart, Poor, Scotland

• Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.

  William Dunbar

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Peoples, Scotland, Scotty

• I attempted to fish in Scotland and I managed to hook a dog. It was a horrible moment but the dog turned out to be fine.

  Emily Blunt

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Horrible, Moment, Scotland

• My favorite instrument is the snare drum. In Scotland, the snare drum is very prominent in Highland bands. The Scottish style of playing is in my blood. It’s a very powerful instrument, but it can also be soothing, like velvet. It’s a real challenge for composers.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Topics in Challenge

  Tags in Favorite, Instrument, Scotland, Prominent

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

  Ewan McGregor

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Scotland

• Scotland is the Canada of England!

  Rainn Wilson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Scotland

• The great thing about Glasgow is that if there’s a nuclear attack it’ll look exactly the same afterwards.

  Billy Connolly

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Scotland, Attack, Exactly, Afterward

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Scotland, Tired