Saltire Scholarship Quotes

#1. It will be all right if it turns out all right.

Ulysses S. Grant

#2. Roger became a part of me, and when he went off the deep end and became a mad snake, I felt sorry for him.

Michael Zaslow

#3. And I am not one of these long-living fictional characters who prays for death as a release from the captivity of eternal life; not for me the endless whining and wailing of the undead.

John Boyne

#4. I am not the 'illegal' you think I am, and immigration is not what you think it is,

Jose Antonio Vargas

#5. And how easy it is to recognize the revenant shapes that the old unchanging enemies - racism, leader worship, superstition - assume when they reappear amongst us (often bodyguarded by their new apologists).

Christopher Hitchens

#6. How can anybody in his right mind be against science?

Kurt Vonnegut

#7. And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.

Margaret Mitchell

#8. If words decorate the home of Being, then hands, and by extension art, are the sketch of Being.

Colm Gillis

#9. A woman's life in the orchestra is not as long as a man's; she is just not as good at 60 as a man is at 60.

Zubin Mehta

#10. We still live with this unbelievable threat over our heads of nuclear war. I mean, are we stupid? Do we think that the nuclear threat has gone, that the nuclear destruction of the planet is not imminent? It's a delusion to think it's gone away.

Kevin Costner

#11. Everyone needs the gospel, both the "you" inside the church and the "you" who are yet outside it. The gospel is the way people are called to faith, and the way people grow in faith.

Timothy Keller

#12. Rob Green needed to get the long barrier out, didn't he?

James Anderson

#13. God can give a straight blow with a crooked stick.

Corrie Ten Boom

#14. It's funny how books can change you. You open up a book and one minute you are who you've always been, then you read some random passage and you become someone else.

Brian Joyce