Hebrew Quotes
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Hebrew Quotes & Sayings
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The Hebrew will turn Christian; he grows kind.
— William Shakespeare
Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Jesus - (Hebrew) - Your perseverance and dedication will get you through a difficult period.
— A.M. McCloud
Hebrews . This book is much superior to most of the writings attributed to St. Paul, though passages in the other books are very admirable.
— James F. Cooper
Jewish Learning Is Living!
— Sipporah Joseph
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Jews are just like everyone else, only more so.
— Lionel Blue
Some people read their Bibles in Hebrew, some in Greek; I like to read mine in the Holy Ghost.
— Smith Wigglesworth
Strange, the Hebrew noun which means "I am", The English always use to govern damn.
— George Gordon Byron
Hebrew is the most wonderful of languages, a language of a thousand antonyms, hard and strong as steel, while soft and gleaming as gold.
— Ze'ev Jabotinsky
They spoke in Latin, so that all might understand; but the quotations they flung at each other were Greek and Hebrew, Turkish, Persian.
— Dorothy Dunnett
I think that, in Hebrew, it's like the language creates a more unique and specific universe even before the story.
— Etgar Keret
Saint Paul said the invisible must be understood by the visible. That was not a Hebrew idea, it was Greek.
— Edith Hamilton
I have always been edified by Hebrew prayers.
— Moses Hess
When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
— Yael Naim
a nose of a delicate Hebrew model, but with a breadth of nostril unusual in similar formations; a
— Edgar Allan Poe
People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.
— John McWhorter
The number eighteen is symbolically meaningful because it is the numerical equivalent of the Hebrew word chai, which means life.
— Michael Bamberger
Lamentations' testimony is bitter, raw, and largely unhealed. Its poems use 'wounded words' to illumine pain and resist God's acts in the world.
— Kathleen M. O'Connor
I might do something in Arabic. I might do something in Hebrew.
— Stevie Wonder
I might sing a gospel song in Arabic or do something in Hebrew. I want to mix it up and do it differently than one might imagine.
— Stevie Wonder
Bad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language.
— George Mikes
But where Moabite differed from Hebrew the difference pointed to Phoenician on the one side and to Arabic on the other, rather than Aramaic.
— John Courtenay James
Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language.
— Cynthia Ozick
Every Hebrew should look upon his Faith as a temple extending over every land to prove the immutability of God and the unity of His purposes.
— Grace Aguilar
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Hebrew 11:1 KJV)
— Anonymous
The grocer told him that he participated in his sorrow, the Hebrew way of expressing condolence.
— Judith Frank
I didn't go to Hebrew school.
— Amy Heckerling
I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
— Zubin Mehta
What do Japanese Jews love to eat? Hebrew National Tsunami.
— Gilbert Gottfried
I wouldn't use the word 'man'. The Hebrew is ha-adam, which I would argue encompasses both sexes.
— Michel Faber
I don't have any religion. I'm Hebrew by nationality. My religion is just God. I have no religion, I just believe in the Most High.
— Killah Priest
I decline to accept Hebrew mythology as a guide to twentieth-century science.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
What will you prefer if you have new king or the king of good times.
— Institute For Translation Of Hebrew Literature
Until mankind heeds the message on the Hebrew trumpet blown, and the faith of the whole world's people is the faith that is our own.
— Israel Zangwill
I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.
— Natalie Portman
I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.
— David Antin
2017 is the Year of Jubilee! Receive its blessings in your spirit! Forgive and be forgiven. Reconcile and be reconcilable. Revival is due!
— Steve Cioccolanti
In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required.
— W. H. Auden
Messianic Judaism is not Christianity.
— Sipporah Joseph
I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.
— Aaron Ciechanover
I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona - no lime. If the phone rings, I won't answer until I'm done.
— Maya Angelou
It is impossible for me to conceive of a character more utterly detestable than that of the Hebrew god.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history.
— Etgar Keret
The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Acrostics in French or acrostics in Hebrew were still Greek to him.
— Dorothy Dunnett
Mitzvah" is Hebrew for "colossal pain in the ass.
— Jesse Andrews
Unfeeling thing that I was, the sensibilities of the maternal heart were Greek and Hebrew to me.
— Charlotte Bronte
It is only in Hebrew that you feel the full meaning of it all the associations which a different word has. — David Ben-Gurion
A Hebrew knelt in the dying light, His eye was dim and cold; The hairs on his brow were silver white, And his blood was thin and old.
— Thomas Kibble Hervey
Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.
— Zubin Mehta
Hebrew Confederate Cemetery on Shockoe Hill, which is the only Jewish military cemetery in the world outside the state of Israel. The
— Maureen Egan
Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.
— Heinrich Heine
I do not like the darkness, but please don't make the light too strong.
— Raphael Ben Levi
As socialists, we are opponents of the Jews, because we see in the Hebrews the incarnation of capitalism, of the misuse of the nation's goods.
— Joseph Goebbels
Here I am, a Palestinian Arab who only knows how to write in Hebrew, stuck in central Illinois,
— Sayed Kashua
Only 8000 different words appear in the Hebrew Bible, compared to the 20,000 or more that the average adult needs to know in most languages.
— Robert Lane Greene
The original text of the Bible was perhaps written in Hebrew and Aramaic and later translated into Greek.
— Sudhir Ahluwalia
Begin thinking of death and you are no longer sure of your life. It's a Hebrew proverb.
— Leo Gordon
I just went to Hebrew school, had a bar mitzvah. No crazy weird Jewish cult.
— Hayden Schlossberg
I do not speak Hebrew, but I understand that it has no word for 'history.' The closest word for it is memory.
— David Miliband
It's too late to be studying Hebrew; it's more important to understand even the slang of today.
— Henry David Thoreau
There is scarcely one figure in the entire Hebrew scripture we would want our children to emulate.
— Harvey Cox
The Hebrew Bible, while firmly opposing pagan sexual practices, nevertheless celebrates man's and woman's desire for each other as divinely designed.
— Meir Soloveichik
It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
From the 3rd century onwards, orthodox Christianity, based on a Hebrew story and worshipping the Jew Jesus, also led many campaigns of anti-Semitism.
— Ivor Grattan-Guinness
I say let's be idealists. "Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not yet see" (Hebrews 11:1).
— Shane Claiborne
Man arose to high moral vision two thousand years before the Hebrew nation was born.
— James Henry Breasted
