Inherited Traditions Quotes

Family habits die hard.

Of course, we carry inside of ourselves our parents. Even when they are dead, we carry them inside ourselves. And they are carrying inside themselves their dead parents and so on and so forth. There is a legacy of language and culture and religion. In some cases, family stories told by grandparents to little grandchildren. When I say my novels are set in Israel in the last seventy years, this entails the fact that they begin hundreds or thousands of years earlier in time. Everybody comes from somewhere.

The past lives within the present, and our ancestors breathe through our children.

My family was pious and Presbyterian mainly because my grandfather was pious and Presbyterian, but that was more of an inherited intuition than an actual fact.

To the brains of our predecessors we owe all of our inheritance of civilization and culture.

It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our steads.

My older brothers and sisters have kids and families.

My dad, he was my role model - my mom died when I was three - and the way we honor our parents is remembering their heritage.

The lifestyle that I grew up in, it was passed on to me. I didn't know there was another world.

I have a musical ancestry as much as I have a family ancestry. Honoring those ancestors gives you access to a greater source of appreciation and information than you would have if you were just going on your own ego system.

My father, who is now in Heaven, was a supporter of La U, and I think the truth is that a lot of my family would like me to end up there. My dad was the pillar of the family, and sometimes people do things for their family as well.

I couldn't be more proud of my eight beautiful children and wouldn't change anything about them or their heritage.

I think we all are people that are the product of our backgrounds. It's wrong to think that you're not.