Top 100 Quotes About Glasgow
#1. There's so much light in Broughty Ferry. I think the humour in Glasgow is darker, because it's much more gloomy, there's a perpetual misery there.
Brian Cox
#2. What is a "canty day", Dennis?'
'I've never troubled to ask. Something like hogmanay, I expect.'
'What is that?'
'People being sick on the pavement in Glasgow.'
'Oh.
Evelyn Waugh
#3. I've been lucky. I don't for a minute take for granted the good fortune I have had. You don't like to get ideas above your station, especially a boy from the south side of Glasgow.
Tony Curran
#4. 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
#6. I've always been mentally tough. Believe me, you have to be that way when you've been an Old Firm player living in Glasgow.
Charlie Adam
#7. At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it's certainly my home.
Bill Forsyth
#9. He was from Glasgow. Everything past "good morning" was a blur.
Natasha Pulley
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. My first tour sold out in Glasgow, and they were one of the loudest. I couldn't hear myself.
Rita Ora
#14. I remember going to see Billy Graham in a cinema in Glasgow, and he was down in London. I used to go and hear preachers, and then we always went to church and Sunday school. That mattered a lot to me.
Johann Lamont
#15. Billy Rankin is a true Glasgow rock legend. He has everything going for him: he's a brilliant guitarist, he writes killer songs, he's worked with the best, toured the world and he is one handsome-looking chap. I know all of this because Billy told me.
Robert Fields
#16. Glasgow is an incredibly creative and culturally vibrant place.
Ruta Gedmintas
#17. I'm very fond of Glasgow, particularly the West End. The whole stretch of the west coast of Scotland from Loch Lomond up through Mallaig to the Kyle of Localsh is so beautiful.
John Niven
#18. I am half Scottish. My father is an expat from Glasgow, and on my mother's side there's a bit of French, a bit of Scottish, a bit of Irish.
Adelaide Kane
#19. Glasgow is less polite than Edinburgh but that's a good thing - they keep it very real.
Nik Kershaw
#20. I like the Edinburgh Film Festival, and I've liked what I've experienced of Glasgow's Film Festival too.
Aidan Gillen
#21. I came from a poor family. My father was from Glasgow, Scotland; my mother's brothers were brakemen on the railroad. We didn't have anything but mush for breakfast.
Mickey Rooney
#22. My mum always said you get more fun at a Glasgow stabbing than an Edinburgh wedding.
Caro Ramsay
#23. The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards.
Billy Connolly
#24. Apparently when I went to school, I had a Glasgow accent.
Annalena McAfee
#25. I actually went to drama school at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama in Glasgow, so I stayed in my home town the whole time. However, I see more of my friends now than I did then. It's strange.
James McAvoy
#26. It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history.
Zaha Hadid
#27. 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
#29. I have been very fortunate to be able to work and get the opportunity to play different roles. It's nice to do big studio pictures and then work in Glasgow on films like 'Red Road' and then dress up as a vampire or an alien. I think that's why a lot of people are actors - the versatility.
Tony Curran
#30. I'm not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow.
Billy Connolly
#31. 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
#32. I was born in Glasgow. But my family is pretty much from a little town called Paisley, famous for its cotton mills and paisley pattern.
Gerard Butler
#33. For me, Glasgow is all about the people and the spirit of the place. You have enough Gregg's bakers, though, I'll say that. The opening of the 1977 'Star Wars' movie was possibly the only time I've seen a longer queue round the block than in Glasgow for sausage rolls. That was quite an eye-opener.
Darren Boyd
#34. As soon as the robbery was discovered, picked detectives hastened off to Liverpool, Glasgow, Havre, Suez, Brindisi, New York, and other ports, inspired by the proffered reward of two thousand pounds, and five per cent.
Jules Verne
#35. When I was 12, I was in Oliver! at a theater in Glasgow.
Gerard Butler
#36. 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
#37. Glasgow is still full of churches built in the last century. Half of them have been turned into warehouses.
Alasdair Gray
#38. My grandfather was Scottish, born in the slums of Glasgow.
Trinny Woodall
#39. People always say that Glasgow has had umpteen social problems but keeps finding ways of getting over its difficulties and transforming itself. Maybe, belonging to the city I'm able to renew myself too, and keep extending out into some new area.
Edwin Morgan
#40. Nicholas Parsons' time at the University of Glasgow seems to be absolutely shrouded in mystery.
Derek Nimmo
#41. There's nothing here that's any different from any of the last dozen EKG readings," Patel said. "Patient scores a nine on the Glasgow scale, shows slow alpha-wave activity consistent with alpha coma. I think he was just talking in his sleep, Nurse. It even happens to gorks like this guy." "His
Joe Hill
#42. Because I came from a small town outside Glasgow, nobody from my school had ever gone into the acting profession. It was just something you didn't do. You joined the bank or became a teacher or whatever you did.
Phyllis Logan
#43. When I went to Scotland to do another movie, I would sing with a coach up there and then when I went to New York I sang with a coach over there-I mean I've now sung with coaches in LA, New York, London, Glasgow, St Louis and Rio de Janeiro!
Gerard Butler
#44. I do actually have a connection with James Herriot because we went to school in the same area. I went to Hillhead Primary School in the West End of Glasgow and he went to Hillhead Secondary.
Iain De Caestecker
#45. I always knew I would come to London. I loved Glasgow, but it seemed filled with echoes of my parents' lives, and sometimes you just want a city of your own.
Andrew O'Hagan
#46. When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
Laura Fraser
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. Whenever I'm in Glasgow I go and stand outside the front of the house I grew up in, which is in Mount Vernon.
John Barrowman
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. I bow to no one in my ambition to see Glasgow be as successful as it possibly can be.
Nicola Sturgeon
#53. I really enjoy travel, I enjoy the U.K., I enjoy Scotland, Glasgow.
George Wendt
#54. 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
#55. My father had been from Glasgow; my mother, from Los Angeles. They had both enjoyed the quip that the difference between an American and a European was that to an American, a hundred years was a long time, and to a European, a hundred miles is a big journey.
Mercedes Lackey
#56. I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow.
Magnus Magnusson
#57. The Scots are a very tough people. They have drive-by headbuttings. In Glasgow a sweatband is considered a silencer.
Emo Philips
#58. I was at a restaurant in Glasgow, and I was walking down the stairs. A woman passed me and said, 'Oh my God, what are you doing here?' I didn't know who she was, and I was like, 'Sorry?' She goes, 'Oh no, sorry, I follow you on Twitter. I just didn't expect to see you here.'
Caitriona Balfe
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. It was great being brought up in a Glasgow working-class tenement. It wasn't miserable, and it wasn't poverty stricken. It felt very safe, full of delights.
Peter Capaldi
#62. I'm fascinated by fire. When I was four, I wore an American fireman's hat all the time, and I still have one in my office today. Glasgow used to be called 'Tinderbox City;' there were always fires, people getting killed.
Peter Capaldi
#63. The trouble with Freud is that he never played the Glasgow Empire Saturday night.
Ken Dodd
#64. When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.
Billy Connolly
#65. The Glasgow accent was so strong you could have built a bridge with it and known it would outlast the civilization that spawned it
Val McDermid
#66. 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
#67. My granny would come out and stay with us in the winter, and we would listen to the reports from the coastal stations and have a discussion in the middle of Glasgow about what the weather was like in Tiree.
Johann Lamont
#68. STG and the Ramshorn Theatre are a vital part of Glasgow's rich cultural history. To abandon them now is to abandon not only our past, but our future.
Peter Capaldi
#69. One of the attributes Glasgow is best known for all over the world is the friendliness of her people.
Nicola Sturgeon
#70. 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
#71. Most big cities like London and Glasgow have great big rivers that are unmissable. What's brilliant about the Water of Leith is that it's so hidden. It's a secret.
Antony Gormley
#72. Before 'Local Hero,' I'd been knocking about Glasgow in rock bands, drinking too much and generally being 21. My opinion of actors was that they were straight and boring, so you see, I was completely unprepared for being one.
Peter Capaldi
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. As the plane lands in Glasgow airport, passengers are reminded to set their watch back, 25 years.
Frankie Boyle
#76. I'd live in Glasgow if I could. I can't praise it enough; it's the nicest place I have ever worked and I've worked in a lot of nice places.
Roxanne McKee
#77. 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
#78. This is Glasgow," added Chief Ben. "Even the faeries have drug problems.
Amy Hoff
#79. Her name was Senga. You have to love Glasgow; once everyone figured we had enough people named Agnes, they just reversed the letters and started again. Hillcoat
Jay Stringer
#80. Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.
Jack Bruce
#81. I always thought it was funny that my grandparents had bought a ticket to New York and ended up in Glasgow.
Peter Capaldi
#82. I really want it to have an impact on the world. I want to be in a town on the other side of the world, and somebody walks up and says, 'That music you made in Glasgow, I listened to it every day, and it moved me.'
Alex Kapranos
#83. For me, the reputation for teaching language in general, and East European languages most particularly, gave Glasgow University, and by reflection the country, a distinction.
Tom Stoppard
#84. It's very hard to be cut off in Glasgow because it's such a small city. You know, we have the highest rate of per-capita imprisonment, certainly in Britain, maybe in Europe. We have a very high murder rate here. So most people will know someone who's been to prison.
Denise Mina
#85. I don't know how they're going to integrate in places like Glasgow and Sheffield.
Prince Philip
#86. There Kelvin proved himself such a prodigy that he was admitted to Glasgow University at the exceedingly tender age of ten.
Bill Bryson
#87. Welcome to Glasgow - the city where we punch people who are on fire.
Frankie Boyle
#88. 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
#89. He said he loves her more because she makes him smile. Fine! I'll give him the Glasgow smile. Beat that, bitch!
Natalya Vorobyova
#90. 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
#91. The East End of Glasgow is like the Olympics. Lots of foriegners in tracksuits struggling to speak English.
Frankie Boyle
#92. 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
#93. Imaginatively Glasgow exists as a music hall song and a few bad novels.
Alasdair Gray
#94. My childhood growing up in that part of Glasgow always sounds like some kind of sub-Catherine Cookson novel of earthy working-class immigrant life, which to some extent it was, but it wasn't really as colourful that.
Peter Capaldi
#95. A search through Whistler's correspondence, now online at the University of Glasgow, paints a portrait of a relationship that at times was volatile, with Sickert swinging from sycophantic to offended and defensive. Whistler's
Patricia Cornwell
#96. We love from little motives, not for large reasons.
Ellen Glasgow
#97. I've liked life well enough, but I reckon I'll like death even better as soon as I've gotten used to the feel of it ... I shouldn't be amazed to find it less lonely than life after I'm once safely settled.
Ellen Glasgow
#98. The great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.
Ellen Glasgow
#99. The ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.
Ellen Glasgow
#100. No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.
Ellen Glasgow
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