Burns Scotland Quotes

#1. Freedom is an idea that no tyrant will ever crush.

Laurence Overmire

#2. Raisins are healthy, and they are inexpensive, and some people may even find them delicious. But they are rarely considered helpful.

Lemony Snicket

#3. My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here;
My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer;
A-chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe,
My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go.

Robert Burns

#4. Some people are little Chernobyls, shimmering with silent, spreading poison: get anywhere near them and every breath you take will wreck you from the inside out.

Tana French

#5. Religions in general have to rediscover their roots. In Hinduism and the Koran, animals are described as equals. If you walk into a cathedral and look at the decorations of early Christianity, there are vines, animals, creatures and birds thriving all over the stonework.

Margaret Atwood

#6. We [Americans] are a nation of immigrants. We all understand what this country has become because talent from all around the world wants to come here, people who are willing to take risks, people who want to build on their dreams and make sure their kids have an - even bigger dreams than they have.

Barack Obama

#7. O Scotia! my dear, my native soil!
For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent

Robert Burns

#8. Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time.

John Dewey

#9. Massachusetts led the nation passing the first state minimum wage a century ago in June 1912, and with passage of an $11 state minimum wage ... will be leading the nation again with a wage floor that is good for business, good for customers and good for our economy.

Holly Sklar

#10. The old will disappear. Human level consciousness by itself can no longer resolve the complexities it has created.

David Spangler

#11. It 's guid to be merry and wise, It 's guid to be honest and true, It 's guid to support Caledonia's cause, And bide by the buff and the blue.

Robert Burns

#12. That we may give our body and our blood over to suffering and pain, like Christ - not for Self, but to give harvests of peace and justice to our People.

Oscar Romero

#13. The best advice I can give anybody about going out into the world is this: Don't do it. I have been out there. It is a mess.

Russell Baker

#14. Wherever a Scotsman goes, here goes Burns. His grand whole, catholic soul squares with the good of all; therefore we find him in everything, everywhere.

John Muir

#15. We will drain our dearest veins,
But they shall be free.

Robert Burns

#16. Ride the horse in the direction it's going.

Werner Erhard

#17. The poor man yields to the rich, the plebeian to the noble, the servant to the master, the unlearned to the learned, and yet every one inwardly cherishes some idea of his own superiority.

John Calvin

#18. No one can self-actualize without self-actualizing those around them.

Mark Victor Hansen