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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #scottish




I've started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a Scottish postman.


Craig Ferguson


#assures #bit #father #funny #i

But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.


Ian Hamilton Finlay


#am #artist #asked #consider #embarrassing

As soon as I got successful, the Scottish press started picking on me. It's something they reserve just for me.


Billy Connolly


#i #just #me #picking #press

Now that Janet and Frances were older, Grandpa would let them visit him in his study, where the parrot lived. Grandpa came from a long line of parrot-keeping men, and Polly’s predecessor, a white cockatoo, had fought with Wellington’s armies in the Napoleonic Wars. Janet’s father’s earliest memories were of the astonishing oaths known to this bird, who was then a hundred and two years old and spoke in ripe gamey accents long since gone from the world of men. Grandpa believed that there must be a fair number of such long-lived birds in Scotland—even perhaps in England—and it would have been a fine thing to have them all gathered in a great dining hall, invoking ghostly midshipmen and dragoons, violent drinkers and merry rhymesters, perhaps even occasionally a lady of refinement. This, he said, would afford a historical experience of rare value; indeed, ancient parrots should be fêted and cultivated as true archivists.


Elspeth Barker


#gothic #scottish #experience

My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland.


Alan Hovhaness


#came #come #family #had #lived

The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.


Irvine Welsh


#called #create #establishment #feel #going

When I am in the Scottish Parliament chamber, I often feel the need to sit for the entire debate. It's only courteous to listen to what everyone has to say, although I often find myself desperate to say something but too scared to stand up in case I regret it.


Margo MacDonald


#am #case #chamber #courteous #debate

Clearly, if it is sensible to hold a referendum on independence, it is crucial that we have one on marriage. It is the only way the country can move forward on this issue. Let all those who have a view on this subject place their trust in the Scottish people and let Scotland decide.


Keith O'Brien


#country #crucial #decide #forward #hold

The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.


Camille Paglia


#assertive #began #both #british #canada

My background is Scottish.


Melissa George


#scottish






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