Kirkcudbrightshire Scotland Quotes & Sayings

In the world union, prosperity is a science, self-interest a new religion, peace is at hand and the future has never looked brighter. — B. Barmanbek

I have heard earnest American sociologists say that American children have a right to the divorce experience as an enriching element of an advanced civilisation. — Anthony Burgess

I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream ... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting. — Mark Twain

In the Scotland of the early seventeenth century, an old woman living alone in Kirkcudbrightshire was accused of witchcraft and on conviction was rolled downhill in a blazing tar barrel. One of the charges against her was that she walked withershins round a well near her cottage which was used by other people. The well was afterwards known as the Witch's Well. These episodes must surely serve as cautionary tales to anyone tempted to transgress the usual custom of walking deasil round a holy well. — Colin Bord

That will to love is very powerful. But it doesn't always win. — Rufus Wainwright

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul. — Thomas Fuller

To search for the old is to understand the new. — Gichin Funakoshi

Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a network of human relations. — Mary Parker Follett

I knew all this Beatles music. I knew the songs phonetically. It was like my whole experience of that music was out of focus, and somebody put the perfect glasses on me, and all of a sudden I could see everything. — Regina Spektor

Sometimes I play something, and I haven't recorded it, and I don't know where it came from, why my hands did what they did, what key it was in, anything. — Rick Wright

If any man be in Christ, he's a new preacher. The old things are passed away and all things become new. — Russell Johnson