I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but the Navy, having left school at 13. – Sean Connery
My point is there’s a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It’s a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally. – Seamus Heaney
It is true that I once refused to eat haggis in Scotland and this did not sit well with the local population. – Rick Riordan
I’ve never seen an ‘English’ books section in, well, an English bookshop, but in Scotland, most bookshops have a set of shelves dedicated to Scottish authors. – Sara Sheridan
An independent Scotland could be far more internationalist and would benefit a great deal from links to both Scandinavia and states in other continents. – Tariq Ali
