The Scots Language Quotes

#1. The Scots language is a mark of the distinctive identity of the Scottish people; and as such we should be concerned to preserve it, even if there were no other reason, because it is ours. This statement requires neither explanation nor apology.

J.Derrick McClure

#2. Why are you relying on yourself, only to find yourself unreliable?

Augustine Of Hippo

#3. There was no word for self-pity in the language of the north-east of Scotland - the nearest being a word which is defined in the Scots dictionary as being 'a term used to express self-reproach on paying too much for something.

Alexander McCall Smith

#4. I love being in the gym.

Scott Brooks

#5. The Jews supposed that the Messiah would be the sovereign of the world. In reality, He was to become the Savior of the world.

Martin Luther

#6. Americans mythologized competition and credit it with saving us from socialist bread lines.

Peter Thiel

#7. The greatest biodiversity of an species is typically found in the place where it first evolved
where nature first experimented white all the possibilities what an apple, or a potato or peach, could be.

Michael Pollan

#8. I don't think the Egyptian people want to see what is a very clear effort to obtain political and economic rights turn into any kind of new form of oppression or suppression or violence or letting loose criminal elements.

Hillary Clinton

#9. Osama Bin Laden is dead? Oh my God, that was so easy! And it only took two trillion dollars, two wars and too many good men.

Christopher Titus

#10. We need to focus on our gift and never allow ourselves to be distracted from the execution of our purpose

Sunday Adelaja

#11. Surely our language is the image of our soul

William Soutar

#12. I am a vampire," I said, and backed away from the ledge.

Jeaniene Frost

#13. I don't have a lot of regrets in my life.

Cathy Freeman

#14. Aggression is what I do. I go to war. You don't contest football matches in a reasonable state of mind

Roy Keane

#15. Yes. Because I love you, and everything I do is to protect you.

Ednah Walters

#16. Science has taught us that what we see and touch is not what is really there.

Hans Christian Von Baeyer

#17. The lively oral storytelling scene in Scots and Gaelic spills over into the majority English-speaking culture, imbuing it with a strong sense of narrative drive that is essential to the modern novel, screenplay and even non-fiction.

Sara Sheridan