Quotes tagged ‘scotland’

(6 total)

“It will be a landmark event in the movement to make menstrual hygiene a basic human right.”

“Penny: Gosh, Scotland is beautiful, Uncle Gadget. Inspector Gadget: It certainly is, Penny. This is where they make Scotch tape, ya know. Brain: ...What?”

— Andy Heyward, Jean Chalopin, Bruno Bianchi, Peter Sauder, Penny / Gadget / Brain (voice) , Cree Summer / Don Adams / Frank Welker, imdb.com

“You know the first attraction I ever built when I came down south from Scotland? It was a Flea Circus, Petticoat Lane. Really quite wonderful. We had a wee trapeze, and a merry-go... carousel and a seesaw. They all moved, motorized of course, but people would say they could see the fleas. 'Oh, I see…”

— Michael Crichton, David Koepp, John Hammond, Richard Attenborough, imdb.com

“When I was a child in Scotland, I was fond of everything that was wild, and all my life I've been growing fonder and fonder of wild places and wild creatures. Fortunately, around my native town of Dunbar, by the stormy North Sea, there was no lack of wildness...”

— John Muir, amazon.com

“In Europe the big word is tolerance. Homosexuals are riding high in the media...and in Scotland, you can't believe how strong the homosexuals are.”

— Pat Robertson, theguardian.com

“Beautiful, Glorious Scotland, has spoilt me for every other country.”

— Mary Todd Lincoln, goodreads.com