#scotland

I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Scotland is free! ↗

— William Wallace

#england #free #go #i #rest

Scotland should be nothing less than equal with all the other nations of the world. ↗

— Sean Connery

#less #nations #nothing #other #scotland

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

— Sean Connery

#because #had #having #i #left

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

#factor #generally #hidden #ireland #just

Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence. ↗

— James Hogg

#land #open #scotland #shepherd #whole

We in Scotland need fiscal responsibility. Quite simply, we need to be responsible for what we raise in tax and what we spend in tax. ↗

— Tom Hunter

#fiscal responsibility #need #quite #raise #responsibility

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

— Edward Irving

#evangelical #flat #lay #party #prevented

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

#been #both #central #coasts #containing

It is time we in Scotland put England in its proper place and instead of our leaning on England and taking inspiration from her, we should lean and turn to Europe, for it is there our future prosperity lies. ↗

— Hugh MacDiarmid

#europe #future #her #inspiration #instead

Dear friends, he began, there is no timetable for happiness; it moves, I think, according to rules of its own. When I was a boy I thought I'd be happy tomorrow, as a young man I thought it would be next week; last month I thought it would be never. Today, I know it is now. Each of us, I suppose has at least one person who thinks that our manifest faults are worth ignoring; I have found mine, and am content. When we are far from home we think of home; I, who am happy today, think of those in Scotland for whom such happiness might seem elusive; may such powers as listen to what is said by people like me, in olive groves like this, grant to those who want a friendship a friend, attend to the needs of those who have little, hold the hand of those who are lonely, allow Scotland, our place, our country, to sing in the language of her choosing that song she has always wanted to sing, which is of brotherhood, which is of love. ↗

— Alexander McCall Smith

#friendship #love #scotland #friendship