“She is the living memorial as to why Scots want their own parliament.”

“Strategically, as leader of the Green Party and the first elected Green in Parliament, I didn’t want to be in a renovated bank building,” she says. “I wanted to be on Parliament Hill, in a building that screams out at you, this is Parliament!”

Elizabeth May (1954) Canadian politician

“She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

“They say The Pacific has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

“Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart?”

Amy Tan (1952) American novelist

“If I can live through the events,” she said, “I can get through the memories.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

“I respect the view of every Scot and every person living in Scotland. And I do so with a clear sense of my own responsibility to lead change and to argue for what I believe is in the Scottish national interest.”

Alex Salmond (1954) Scottish National Party politician and former First Minister of Scotland

“If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

“It had been so long since she had seen him and she had lived on memories until they were worn thin.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

“I want to make all Europe and America know it – I want to make England feel her weakness if she refuses to give the justice we the Irish require – the restoration of our domestic parliament…”

Daniel O'Connell (1775–1847) Irish political leader