Amos Oz Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• Two children of same cruel parent look at one another and see in each other the image of the cruel parent or the image of their past oppressor. This is very much the case between Jew and Arab: It's a conflict between two victims.

  Amos Oz

  Children, Past, Two

  Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth on PBS, 2002.

• 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.

  Amos Oz

  Parent, Culture, Legacy

  "'Everybody comes from somewhere.' An Interview with Writer Amos Oz". Interview with Prashanth Ramakrishna, logger.believermag.com. October 20, 2016.

• I would love to leave my children and grandchildren a nicer world than the one I am going to leave them. But bearing in mind that I was born in the world of Hitler, Mussolini and Franco, the legacy I leave them might not be as terrible as the legacy my parents and grandparents left to me.

  Amos Oz

  Children, Grandparent, Mind

  Source: www.spiegel.de

• 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.

  Amos Oz

  Grandchildren, Grandparent, Culture

  Source: logger.believermag.com

• On my parents scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

  Amos Oz

  Parent, Scales, Western

  Amos Oz (2005). “A Tale of Love and Darkness”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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