My family influenced me very deeply because my dad came from a musical background, from the hillbilly music part of it, and all that music came over from Scotland and Ireland and England in to the Appalachian Mountains and Ozark Mountains, where I was raised.

Charlie Haden

Scotland is a picturesque country where the people are friendly yet completely incomprehensible. Also, the national delicacy is a sheep's stomach filled with its liver, lungs, and heart.

Adam Schlesinger

Art Wit Where

After secondary school, the big thing to do was apply for uni in England or Scotland and then just stay there.

Adrian McKinty

Us UN Thing

I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I'm choosing my homeland. It's funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.

Alan Cumming

Home Funny Art

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

Family York Whom

With '44 Scotland Street' I found myself having to work out how a daily novel works, and it is completely different to a conventional novel.

Alexander McCall Smith

Work Works Work Out

Wherever I go in the world, people all know about Scotland Street and are always asking me about what's going to happen to the characters next.

Alexander McCall Smith

World Wherever Where

I hate it when people romanticize Scotland.

Alexander McQueen

Romantic T Scotland

My father is from Newark in Nottinghamshire and my mother is from the very north of Ireland. They've ended up in Scotland, where my father - well, both of them - will always be seen as having come from somewhere else.

Ali Smith

War Will Where

What most people don't understand is that UFOs are on a cosmic tourist route. That's why they're always seen in Arizona, Scotland, and New Mexico. Another thing to consider is that all three of those destinations are good places to play golf. So there's possibly some connection between aliens and golf.

Alice Cooper

Good Why Ways

I try not to think about writers who came before me when I'm writing myself. If I did, given the abundance of literary talent Scotland - and Edinburgh in particular - has bestowed upon the world, I wouldn't be able to get as much as a sentence written.

Allan Guthrie

Art Written Writing

If I'm out shopping, in Topshop or wherever, I'm never spotted. In fact, I'm usually asked if I have a student card. No-one seems to notice me, they're oblivious to who I am even in Scotland, and I'm very happy to be able to blend in with the crowd.

Amy Macdonald

Car Wit Who

I've played in practically every city in Scotland, and loads of towns as well. I just feel very grateful that I'm able to do that.

Amy Macdonald

Well Very Us

Singing Flower of Scotland was the only thing that made me nervous.I don't get nervous doing my own shows.

Amy Macdonald

Us Thing Thin

Hearing the statistic that one in four children in Scotland suffer from poverty just made me think that if there is even a tiny thing I could do that would help then it was totally worthwhile.

Amy Macdonald

Would Worthwhile Worth

My favourite football memory is the opening match of France '98, and unfortunately Scotland had drawn Brazil.

Amy Macdonald

Unfortunately Unfortunate UN

The reason I say 'never say never' is because I do not think that there should be another independence referendum in Scotland - I do not think it's in their interest - but on the other hand, I am a big believer in devolution.

Andrea Leadsom

Independence Use Us

I spent loads of time in Scotland as a kid. My dad would take us back up to Aberdeen loads, and I have very fond memories of getting chips from his favourite chippy and heading down to the beach to eat Baskin Robbins ice cream.

Andrew Buchan

Time Would Very

Well, we all make mistakes, and I've made some; getting involved in a price-cutting campaign in Scotland when the biggest slump in advertising history was just around the corner was a mistake.

Andrew Neil

History Well Us

You have to live and breathe Scotland if you're 'Scotsman' editor.

Andrew Neil

You T Scotland

I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn't know what to say.

Andy Partridge

Yin While Us

I was born in Edinburgh, in Scotland, a few days after the end of the Second World War. Both my parents had left school at a very young age, unwillingly in my father's case. Yet both had deep effects on my education, my father influencing me toward measurement and mathematics, and my mother toward writing and history.

Angus Deaton

In Scotland, I was brought up to think of policemen as allies and to ask one for help when I needed it.

Angus Deaton

When I was a boy living in Edinburgh in Scotland, especially in December, when the hours of daylight were few, and it was cold, and often wet, I used to dream of escaping to a tropical magic kingdom.

Angus Deaton

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

Anne Boyd

My father was full of tales. He said his family were ministers in the Church of Scotland, or they were lawyers.

Anne Reid

I think Scotland could take a stand in a wonderful way, ecologically and morally and ethically.

Annie Lennox

Both Plockton and the Isle of Muck in north-west Scotland are incredibly beautiful. Sadly, Plockton has been discovered by tourists because it's where they shot Hamish Macbeth.

Arabella Weir

There's just no place like Scotland when the sun is out. I just love coming home.

Ashley Jensen

Nothing is forever, and I do still talk about when I'll come back to Britain. I'd love to come back and do a nice big juicy period drama. I don't understand it when people suddenly turn their back on Britain or Scotland. I'm so aware of it, and it's so much a part of who I am.

Ashley Jensen

In contrast to our sinking taste, there has been a revival of interest in verse drama in England, Scotland, and elsewhere. The movement has been slow but sure and, above all, modest in its demands.

Austin Clarke

Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows - the south and east oriels - are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.

Bayard Taylor

You have to go to Scotland at all times of the year - in order to appreciate the times when the sun does come out.

Bill Bailey

After I've been in America for a while, I get homesick for Scotland.

Billy Boyd

I think Scotland has some great stories.

Billy Boyd

There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.

Billy Connolly

I enjoy coming to Scotland, and my favourite memory has to be my first Open at Carnoustie. Coming over from a small town and playing in something so big to golf and y'all.

Boo Weekley

Scotland's a pretty place. I mean, as long as it ain't raining.

Boo Weekley

What you have in Scotland is an unpredictability with surfaces - and I've already said you don't get good games on artificial turf - and that can affect performances and results.

Brendan Rodgers

Would I work in Scotland again? Of course I would. I loved every single second of being there.

Brendan Rodgers

Golf is a working man's sport in Scotland.

Brian Binnie

I love Scotland - I was made an honorary Wallace after my work on 'Braveheart,' you know. If I have two or three days off, I love nothing more than driving up there and climbing around Glencoe.

Brian Blessed

I come from a working class community in eastern Scotland, and I've always been a populist, though not a patronising populist.

Brian Cox

I tell you one you straight off in Scotland - Nick de Luca. I don't see his name quoted, but I've played against Nick quite a lot and he is a good player - one of the trickiest centres I've played against.

Brian O'Driscoll

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

Catherine Helen Spence

To involve young people and make sure that the system is more relevant to them in Scotland, we have a clear obligation to implement a policy of home rule.

Charles Kennedy

As I spread my wings in politics, I discovered many Thatcher voters down south who were the same kind of people who loathed her in Scotland. They were puzzled by the Scots' antipathy, given the Falklands war and the strong militaristic history of the Highlands and elsewhere.

Charles Kennedy

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

Kenny Dalglish was the greatest to play for Liverpool and Scotland, so for someone like that to sign me was an honour.

Charlie Adam

My family influenced me very deeply because my dad came from a musical background, from the hillbilly music part of it, and all that music came over from Scotland and Ireland and England in to the Appalachian Mountains and Ozark Mountains, where I was raised.

Charlie Haden

James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster.

Charlotte Mary Yonge