One of the attributes Glasgow is best known for all over the world is the friendliness of her people. — Nicola Sturgeon
The Scots are a very tough people. They have drive-by headbuttings. In Glasgow a sweatband is considered a silencer. — Emo Philips
Sending us Ebola bombs in the form of sweaty Glaswegians just isn't cricket. — Sayings
Scotland has a great deal to offer the world in terms of our approach to key economic and social issues. — Nicola Sturgeon
It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine. — P. G. Wodehouse
Stirling, like a huge brooch, clasps Highlands and Lowlands together. — Alexander Smith
Scotland's relationship with Malawi is perhaps unique - with almost every town or village in Scotland having some connection. — Nicola Sturgeon
Too often in the past, Scotland has been sidelined and ignored in the Westminster corridors of power, but that doesn't have to be the case anymore. — Nicola Sturgeon
There is now a desperate need for a London-wide left caucus of those interested in the GLC and local councils so that we can compare and discuss what is happening in each borough. — Ken Livingstone
This is Manchester, we do things differently here. — Tony Wilson
Scotland never voted for Margaret Thatcher. — Nicola Sturgeon
London: A place you go to get bronchitis. — Fran Lebowitz
Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind. — Winston Churchill
Glasgow Rangers. God I loved playing for them — Paul Gascoigne
I bow to no one in my ambition to see Glasgow be as successful as it possibly can be. — Nicola Sturgeon
As the plane lands in Glasgow airport, passengers are reminded to set their watch back, 25 years. — Frankie Boyle
When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight. — Billy Connolly
The trouble with Freud is that he never played the Glasgow Empire Saturday night. — Ken Dodd
At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it's certainly my home. — Bill Forsyth
Apparently when I went to school, I had a Glasgow accent. — Annalena McAfee
Glasgow is less polite than Edinburgh but that's a good thing - they keep it very real. — Nik Kershaw
Welcome to Glasgow - the city where we punch people who are on fire. — Frankie Boyle
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Edinburgh Quotes
After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine. — Frederic Chopin
How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test? — Prince Philip
Study hard. Work hard. Play harder. Don't be bound by rules, don't hurt anybody and never ever live somebody else's dream. — Shahrukh Khan
When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up. — Jeffrey Archer
The bastards murdered half my family. — Prince Philip
Don't become a philosopher before you become rich. — Shahrukh Khan
A few years ago, everybody was saying we must have more leisure, everyone's working too much. Now everybody's got more leisure time they're complaining they're unemployed. People don't seem to make up their minds what they want. — Prince Philip
If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed. — Prince Philip
I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals. — Gerard Butler
I would like to go to Russia very much — although the bastards murdered half my family. — Prince Philip
Scotland Quotes
It would've cost less, and left the previous owners with nothing, to go into liquidation. But it would also be humiliating for Celtic. So we paid all the bills. Celtic means the same to me as it does to other fans. I identify with the club and wish to be proud of it. — Fergus McCann
We come here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, determined to avenge our wrongs and set our country free. — William Wallace
Since I became First Minister, I have made clear my priority to alleviate poverty and tackle inequality in Scotland. Ensuring that everyone can do better in life will not only make Scotland fairer, but it will also make it a more prosperous place. — Nicola Sturgeon
An independent Scotland could afford pensions full stop - after all, it is our taxes and national insurance contributions that fund them now. — Nicola Sturgeon
Voting Labour in the past hasn't protected Scotland against Tory governments. — Nicola Sturgeon
I don't feel we need to be independent for me to feel confident in my Scottish identity. I think Scotland is pretty comfortable in its identity. We won't need independence to preserve it... if we don't become independent, it won't disappear; it isn't under existential threat. — Nicola Sturgeon
My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life. — Maria Monk
I want there to be another independence referendum at some stage. I want Scotland to be independent, but I wouldn't choose to have it happen because England votes to come out of the E.U. — Nicola Sturgeon
I desperately want Scotland to be an independent country. I cannot, though, sit here and tell you definitively that it will happen, and that it will happen on this timescale, because I have to respect the opinion of the people of Scotland. — Nicola Sturgeon
It would be a very serious mistake for the U.K. to vote to leave the European Union, and I think it would be democratically indefensible for Scotland, if we had voted to stay in, to face the prospect of being taken out. — Nicola Sturgeon
If I die here in Glasgow, I shall be eaten by worms; If I can but live and die serving the Lord Jesus, it will make no difference to me whether I am eaten by cannibals or by worms; for in the Great Day my resurrection body will arise as fair as yours in the likeness of our risen Redeemer. — John Gibson Paton
Labour long ago realised it could no longer automatically assume that it would win elections in Glasgow and other places where it has taken people's votes for granted for decades - as we have seen across Scotland at local council and Holyrood elections. — Nicola Sturgeon
Freud's theory was that when a joke opens a window and all those bats and bogeymen fly out, you get a marvellous feeling of relief and elation. The trouble with Freud is that he never had to play the old Glasgow Empire on a Saturday night after Rangers and Celtic had both lost. — Ken Dodd
The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards. — Billy Connolly
The average life expectancy rate in some parts of Glasgow is 54. If you've ever been there, you'll realize that that's maybe a bit long. — Frankie Boyle
The East End of Glasgow is like the Olympics. Lots of foriegners in tracksuits struggling to speak English. — Frankie Boyle
Australia integrated the - brought on the ships and unleashed in the society the dogs of sectarianism, which had existed in other places - in Glasgow, in Liverpool and of course in Ireland, north and south. — Thomas Keneally
After I graduated from the University of Glasgow, I was a self-employed archaeologist going from dig to dig around Scotland, and it was not well-paid. I was an excavator, not a lecturer as well, so paying rent on a flat was tricky. In the end I decided to retrain as a journalist as I couldn't see a future in it. — Neil Oliver
I do miss Glasgow but Malibu is home now. I love it here and when I do go back to Scotland it takes me a bit of time to acclimatise. I am a spoilt so-and-so. I live in the mountains of Malibu in the most gorgeous house and I phone my mum every day and tell her that I have got bad news - that it is only 70 degrees here. — Tommy Flanagan
I am from a city (Glasgow) that is not unlike Liverpool. I am joining the people's football club. The majority of people you meet on the street are Everton fans. It is a fantastic opportunity, something you dream about. I said 'yes' right away as it is such a big club. — David Moyes
I went to the Glasgow Youth Theatre and they just let me in. But I was so shy that I was there for about six weeks without actually introducing myself. — Bill Forsyth
Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way. — Alex Kapranos
I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society; the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked. — Gerard Butler
For me, Glasgow is all about the people and the spirit of the place. You have enough Greggs bakers, though, Ill say that. The opening of the 1977 Star Wars movie was possibly the only time Ive seen a longer queue round the block than in Glasgow for sausage rolls. That was quite an eye-opener. — Darren Boyd
In Scotland, I have to say I'm more fond of Glasgow Rangers - not celtc - and there is a great player who played for them, who is still alive today, Willie Henderson. I met up with him recently when Benfica played celtc again. — Eusebio
I played upright bass. I wanted to write great tunes, play the bass, be a band leader, and smoke a big funny pipe like Charlie Mingus. So I went out and bought the pipe when I was around 18 or 19 years old. You know even women smoke a pipe in Glasgow. I worked with Carla Bley and she smoked a pipe, which I find fascinating. — Jack Bruce
To perform at the Cardiff Millennium Centre was amazing in itself - the theatre is an incredible venue and it was great to be performing so close to home. For me the best experience was in Glasgow, where I got to play Dee Dee for two weeks! The audience sang along to every song with such enthusiasm you actually couldn't hear yourself singing! That was incredible! — Francesca Jackson
If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were. — Denise Mina
Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels. — Alasdair Gray
I went to Glenalmond and got the piss taken out of me for my Glasgow accent. Then I spent five years at this very posh school, came out sounding like Prince Charles, which you have to do in order to survive, and then I got called Lord Fauntleroy for the first six months at art school. — Robbie Coltraine
A few years ago, if you had told me I'd be moving back to Glasgow I'd have said, 'No way'. But it's changed. It's much more vibrant, bohemian. But I'm 35 and I've become a bit of a homebody, I don't really go out much. Same in New York. My home could be anywhere but I love Glasgow. — Kelly Macdonald
I think that practising the law, particularly litigation, and particularly in Glasgow, has always been difficult enough without adding to it by having problems with professional colleagues or former colleagues. — Len G. Murray
I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow. — Magnus Magnusson
If we can't have an open and honest debate about the value of ideas in a university in Glasgow, or Boston, or anywhere else in the world, then where are they going to go? — Edward Snowden
I was in the ensemble and also covered the parts of Dee Dee and Mary!! I had a fantastic time doing this show especially when we performed in places like Cardiff and Glasgow where the audiences were just so enthusiastic, joining in with all the songs and up on their feet dancing at the end!! — Francesca Jackson
Well the seaport, all seaports in Britain whether it's Glasgow or Newcastle or... or Liverpool, any of the seaports, I've got this kind of knock about, beggar and the Lord will provide feeling about it. — Derek Taylor
I'm not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow. — Billy Connolly
London is always fun, obviously, but something about Glasgow really speaks to me. Usually what it says, though, is "Let's get wasted." — Keith Murray
My Dad taught me that the English upper class are sent to school to be taught to be confident, whereas in Glasgow you're born confident. I've always thought that pretty much summed me up. Born confident. — Rankin
I must admit, even my fans everywhere I go in the world - just this week I was in London and Glasgow and the week before I was in Des Moines - my fans all look the same in all those cities - they look great! — John Waters
I just got an honorary degree from Glasgow University, and I had to wear around very painful shoes so that I didn't laugh all the way through the ceremony because I felt like an outlaw. — Denise Mina
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