Highland Clearances - Teetime Scotland tells the stories of Scotland's Highland Clearances, wherever possible from primary sources and first-hand accounts. Parishes, people, photographs and passenger lists.
The Highland Clearances - Douglas MacGowan gives a chronology and bibliography of the massive evictions of residents in Scotland's Highlands and Islands during the 18th and 19th centuries.
BBC: Highland Clearances - A history module supporting the environmental studies section of the Scottish 5-14 National Curriculum.
Tragic Highland Clearances - A timeline of clearance events and a five-chapter online book by R. M. Gunn.
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Highland Clearances "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Highland Clearances
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Highland Clearances Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Highland Clearances
Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Highland Clearances If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Highland Clearances
Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Highland Clearances Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Highland Clearances
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Highland Clearances Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Highland Clearances
"Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Highland Clearances Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Highland Clearances
Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Highland Clearances Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Highland Clearances
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Highland Clearances "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Highland Clearances
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Highland Clearances "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Highland Clearances
"The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Highland Clearances "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Highland Clearances
Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Highland Clearances "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Highland Clearances
