Mosaic Quotes

“As long as she was there, I was still the younger generation, but now that the last custodian of my past has gone, I’m in the front line.”
― Diane Armstrong, Mosaic: A Chronicle of Five Generations

“I was her chosen child, I should have been with her when she died. Why do we let people we love just slip away from us? We look away and they’re gone, taking so much love with them.”
― Diane Armstrong, Mosaic: A Chronicle of Five Generations

“Everything in the world is interconnected, everything moves and changes, but nothing ever vanishes.”
― Diane Armstrong, Mosaic: A Chronicle of Five Generations

“The best gift that parents can give their children is their own life fully lived, and that’s the gift my father gave me.”
― Diane Armstrong, Mosaic: A Chronicle of Five Generations

“Life is made up of small decisions which, like brick upon brick, imperceptibly shape the structure of our existence.”
― Diane Armstrong, Mosaic: A Chronicle of Five Generations

“every good deed tips the balance in favour of humanity, that whoever saves one life, saves the whole world. For the first time, I fully comprehend”
― Diane Armstrong, Mosaic: A Chronicle of Five Generations

“the Pope said, ‘Whoever meets Jesus Christ meets Judaism.’ Karol Wojtyla, who was once Bishop of Krakow and helped Jews during the Holocaust, described Judaism as Christianity’s older brother and Christianity as an offshoot of the trunk of King David. He said that it was time that the Catholic Church recognised its responsibility in fostering the anti-Semitism which had made the Holocaust possible, and urged reconciliation between Catholics and Jews.”
― Diane Armstrong, Mosaic: A Chronicle of Five Generations

“kind, but stereotyping just the same. I can’t resist saying, ‘To think like us, you need 2000 years of persecution.”
― Diane Armstrong, Mosaic: A Chronicle of Five Generations

“you’re writing about your people. There is no culture like yours. Whatever we have achieved, it’s because of your people. Look at Israel, look what they’ve done with that strip of desert in fifty short years. We’ll never amount to anything in this country unless we learn to think like you.”
― Diane Armstrong, Mosaic: A Chronicle of Five Generations

“Anti-Semitism seems to be a free-floating cancer in search of a cause.”
― Diane Armstrong, Mosaic: A Chronicle of Five Generations

“She always said that she preferred to give things with a warm hand, while she was alive, so that she could have the pleasure of giving.”
― Diane Armstrong, Mosaic: A Chronicle of Five Generations

“It wasn’t belief in God, but belief in tradition, heritage and continuity that motivated me. Within my lifetime, six million Jews had died because of their religion and I too had been destined for death. It was a sacred trust to carry the flame forward to the next generation.”
― Diane Armstrong, Mosaic: A Chronicle of Five Generations

“tried to explain that people envied Jews because they were successful, educated and wise, and that for centuries Jews have been persecuted and discriminated against for being different.”
― Diane Armstrong, Mosaic: A Chronicle of Five Generations

“Life isn’t fair. The pleasures that parents give children are brushed away like crumbs,”
― Diane Armstrong, Mosaic: A Chronicle of Five Generations