Jane Yolen Quotes

We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.

The future has a lot to do with the past.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

It embodied what came before. Illuminated what came after.

I want to make sure people are connected with the future as well as the past.

Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.

One thing you learn very rapidly in this business is that you are part of a continuing tradition.

Nothing I'm doing is without its predecessors.

I have goals, I have my purpose. I want to build upon what my grandpa and my dad and my stepdad did in the past.

We didn't invent anything new. Hospitality has been around forever.

I always had my roots in the past.

Only the very best clubs are able to pass the baton of continuity down through the generations.

What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation to generation.

People who have gone, are still here, in us. Places we came from, are carried to the places we go.

What we have loved Others will love And we will teach them how.

The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

One of the greatest gifts we can give to another generation is our experience, our wisdom.

We clasp the hands of those who go before us.

Where are the links of the chain ... joining us to the past?

The world to come must be composed of what is past. No other material is at hand.

I am interested in reconstructing symbols. It's about connecting with an older knowledge and trying to discover continuities in why we search for heaven.

The past seems to infuse into the present, and in the brown, wringled faces of the old people one sees the presence of the past.

This, milord, is my family's axe. We have owned it for almost nine hundred years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a new blade. And sometimes it has required a new handle, new designs on the metalwork, a little refreshing of the ornamentation . . . but is this not the nine hundred-year-old axe of my family? And because it has changed gently over time, it is still a pretty good axe, y'know. Pretty good.

Should you ever feel too lonely...listen for the roar of the sea- for in it are all those who've been and all those who are to come.