Fareweel to a'our Scottish fame, Fareweel our ancient glory.

-Burns, Robert
  'Such a parcel of rogues in a nation', stanza1.

'There shall be a Scottish Parliament.' Through long years, those wordswere first a hope, then a belief, then a promise. Now they are a reality.

-Dewar, Donald Campbell
  Speech at the official opening of the Scottish Parliament, 1  Jul.

The Scottish Parliament which adjourned on 25 March in the year1707 is hereby reconvened.

-Ewing,Winnie
  Speech at the opening of the new Scottish Parliament, 12 May.

So that was Chris and her reading and schooling, two Chrisses there were that fought for her heart and tormented her.You hated the land and the coarse speak of the folk and learning was brave and fine one day and the next you'd waken with the peewits crying across the hills, deep and deep, crying in the heart of you, and the smell of the earth in your face, almost you'd cry for that, the beauty of it and the sweetness of the Scottish land and skies.

-Gibbon, Lewis Grassic
  Sunset Song.

My aim all along has been (in Ezra Pound's term) the most drastic desuetization of Scottish life and letters, and, inparticular, thede-Tibetanizationofthe Highlands and Islands, and getting rid of the whole gang of high mucky-mucks, famous fatheads, old wives of both sexes, stuffed shirts, hollow men with headpieces stuffed with straw, bird-wits, lookers-under-beds, trained seals, creeping Jesuses, Scots Wha Ha'evers, village idiots, policemen, leaders of white-mouse factions and noted connoisseurs of bread and butter, glorified gangsters, and what 'Billy' Phelps calls Medlar Novelists (the medlar being a fruit that becomes rotten before it is ripe),Commercial Calvinists, makers of 'noises like a turnip', and all the touts and toadies and lickspittles o the English Ascendancy, and their infernal women-folk, and all their skunkoil skulduggery.

-Grieve
  Lucky Poet, ch.3,'The Kind of Poetry I  Want'.

It was one of those cool, crepuscular days that could have belonged to anyof at least three Scottish seasons, a sky like slate roofing and a wind that Rebus's father would have called 'snell'.

-Rankin, Ian
The Falls.

If I can but get the sulky Scottish spirit set up, the devil won't turn them.

-Scott, Sir Walter
  Journal, 25 Feb.

The settled will of the Scottish people.

-Smith,John
  Of the creation of a Scottish parliament, in a speech at the Scottish Labour Conference,11 Mar.

Why should it take three times longer to elect a Mayor for London as it does to set up an entire Scottish Parliament?

-Waterhouse, Keith Spencer
  In the Observer,'They SaidWhat†?', 24 Oct.