Quotes & Wishes collections Quotes and wishes: «Tartan»
Quotes and wishes: «Tartan»
But don’t eat the macaroni piesScotland is one of the most hauntingly beautiful places in the world, the history is fascinating, the men are handsome and the whisky is delicious.
JK Rowling Quotes and wishes: «Tartan»
Contribution to mankindOf all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.
Winston Churchill Quotes and wishes: «Tartan»
Glasgow inventionThe Glasgow invention of square-toed shoes was to enable the Glasgow man to get closer to the bar.
Jack House Quotes and wishes: «Tartan»
If a Frenchman goes on about…If a Frenchman goes on about seagulls, trawlers and sardines, he’s called a philosopher. I’d just be called a short Scottish bum talking crap.
Gordon Strachan Quotes and wishes: «Tartan»
It is my Scottish rootsIn such a competitive world I believe it is my Scottish roots that have enabled me to keep a sincere and realistic approach to everything I do.
Nicola Benedetti Quotes and wishes: «Tartan»
It matters deeplyPoetry, the reading of it, the writing of it, the saying it out loud, the learning of it off by heart, matters deeply to ordinary Scottish people everywhere.
Liz Lochhead Quotes and wishes: «Tartan»
Look at Scottish guysLook at Scottish guys wearing kilts - you could look at them and laugh, but the way they carry themselves, how can you?
Andre Benjamin Quotes and wishes: «Tartan»
Nowhere beats the heart so kindlyNowhere beats the heart so kindly as beneath the tartan plaid.
William Edmondstoune Aytoun Quotes and wishes: «Tartan»
Only in ScotlandTwo negatives make a positive but only in Scotland do two positives make a negative: aye right.
Frankie Boyle Quotes and wishes: «Tartan»
Our Scottish theoryOur Scottish theory … is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country.
Arthur James Balfour Quotes and wishes: «Tartan»
Race of menYou [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.
JM Barrie Quotes and wishes: «Tartan»
Quotes and wishes: «Tartan»
Scotch educationThere’s nothing quite like a Scotch education. One is left with an irreparable debt. My head is full of irregular verbs still.
Ivor Cutler Quotes and wishes: «Tartan»
The hills of the Highlands for ever I loveThe birth-place of Valour, the country of Worth;
Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,
The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.
Robert Burns Quotes and wishes: «Tartan»
The mark of a ScotThe mark of a Scot of all classes [is that] he ... remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there burns alive in him a sense of identity with the dead even to the twentieth generation.
Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes and wishes: «Tartan»
Touch his heartTouch his head, and he will bargain and argue with you to the last; Touch his heart, and he falls upon your breast. (about Scottish character)
Andrew Carnegie Quotes and wishes: «Tartan»
Quotes and wishes: «Tartan»
Wherever a Scotsman goes, here goes BurnsWherever a Scotsman goes, here goes Burns. His grand whole, catholic soul squares with the good of all; therefore we find him in everything, everywhere.
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