Angela Carter Quotes

Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum... The story is our escort. Without it we are blind... It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle.

The mark of a Scot of all classes [is that] he ... remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there burns alive in him a sense of identity with the dead even to the twentieth generation.

I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.

Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.

I love where I'm from. I don't live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It's what's inside, it's not what's outside that determines the culture and the feeling.

Family traditions counter alienation and confusion. They help us define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable and safe in a confusing world.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

A generation without history is a generation that not only loses a nation's memory but loses a sense of what it's like to be inside a human skin.

Things that came before, people and things and experiences - that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

I'm the proof - you can't throw away tradition.

France is an old country that does not forget.

History takes time... History makes memory.

Stories are one of the means by which a culture preserves its identity.

Part of my whole project from the beginning was to make an absent world present for my parents, which was India.

If you grow up with traditions in your family, it's always nice to be able to get home and have those moments.

I always had my roots in the past.

I'm a big believer in Europe.

Let's treasure our roots, even when we're far away.

Remember Old Nan's stories, Bran. Remember the way she told them, the sound of her voice. So long as you do that, part of her will always be alive in you.

I like this idea of the re-foundation of the European Union, maybe it can be done, because Europe - I do not say is unique, but it has a force, a culture, a history that cannot be wasted, and we must do everything so that the European Union has the strength and also the inspiration to make it go forward.

I know that Europe's wonderful, yet something seems to lack;The Past is too much with her, and the people looking back.

I think the history and the past we have is just an energy we've built up to do what we do now.