#scotland

I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff. ↗

— Ewan McGregor

#bands #drums #guitars #i #pipe

In the late-'80s, there was a big push to make American football big in Scotland. The Super Bowl was on TV, but it didn't really catch on. When I was a kid, though, I became a big Miami Dolphins fan. I don't really know why - I just liked the logo, I guess. I didn't really know what was going on. ↗

— Kevin McKidd

#american football #became #big #bowl #catch

I hate it when people romanticize Scotland. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#i #people #scotland

Autumn in the Highlands would be brief—a glorious riot of color blazing red across the moors and gleaming every shade of gold in the forests of sheltered glens. Those achingly beautiful images would be painted again and again across the hills and in the shivering waters of the mountain tarns until the harsh winds of winter sent the last quaking leaf to its death on the frozen ground. ↗

— Elizabeth Stuart

#beauty

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

— Anne Boyd

#being #cast #content #fear #i

A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#cup #glass #less #scotland #tea

I get the feeling a lot of politicians are there to help themselves financially, first and foremost. I don't really need to do that, and I thought if I could do something for sport in Scotland, that would be really fulfilling. ↗

— Gordon Strachan

#feeling #financially #first #foremost #fulfilling

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

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