Quotes of: Scots Keyword

My ancestors are Highland Scots, and my father's home in north Alabama is so much like northwest Arkansas. I have the same allergies in both places.

Ellen Gilchrist

In my end lies my beginning" Who said that? Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1542-1587).

Danny Saunders

Mary Queen of Scots is the most 'normal' girl who became a queen that I have ever written about.

Kathryn Lasky

I've never played Scots or got the chance to do my Scottish accent. I'm always trying it out in auditions, but they always say no. I'd love to act in a Scottish accent for once.

Callum Keith Rennie

Damn there were days being a woman confused the hell out of her.- Aella

A Demon and Her Scot

There are hundreds of thousands of Scots who acknowledge English, Irish or Welsh parts of their very being. Lives and destinies are similarly intertwined in Catalonia and Spain, in Ukraine and Russia.

Michael Ignatieff

I was a good soldier in the British Army. I was born in a very, very poor family. And I enlisted to escape hunger. But my officers were Scottish and they loved me. The Scots are good, you know.

Idi Amin

It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history.

Zaha Hadid

Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom nor forced him wander, but confine him home.

John Cleveland

Believing a person deserves a defence is not the same as doing anything in your power to get him off scot-free.

Tammy Bruce

This is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of... well, my grandfather was a minister and sort of Protestant, and this was rather depressing to me.

Alan Hovhaness

I come from a very critical culture. You know the Scots. They're always saying: 'Oh, no. It will never work. You'll never amount to anything. You've got to know your place in the world.'

Craig Ferguson

My dad liked to say that magic itself is never black; only the uses to which it is put, but mind magic is already tinted a deep, dark gray.

Cassie Scot

Submitted for your approval--the curious case of Colleen O’Brien and the gorgeous time traveling Scot who landed in her living room.” – Rod Serling

Rogue on the Rollaway

Darnley, who, like Banquo's ghost, seemed to play a much more effective part in Scottish politics once he was dead than when he was alive.

Mary Queen of Scots

Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins.

Uncle Anthony's Unabridged Analogies: Quotes and Proverbs for Lawyers and Lecturers

One of my greatest sadnesses at the prospective break-up of the Union is that it will set English, Welsh and Northern Irish against Scots in a bitter division of the debts and resources of the whole of the U.K.

Rory Bremner

But he'll never be fully recognised, because Scots literature these days is all about complaining and moaning and being injured in one's soul.

The Sunday Philosophy Club

I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.

Ralph Fiennes

Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.

Vivienne Westwood

The Danes don't take themselves seriously at all and look for the joke in everything. Us Scots are on the same line of latitude and have the same amount of light, which may be why we have a similar sense of humour.

Jamie Sives