Hebrew Quotes: top 88 famous quotes about Hebrew

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

[I]ndeed, one hears, in early Christian theology, as many echoes of Persian dualism as of Hebrew Puritanism or Greek philosophy. — Will Durant

Ll our tongues and cultures are constant shoplifters from other tongues and cultures. — Amos Oz

The Providence of God is like Hebrew words - it can be read only backwards. — John Flavel

Nowhere in the Hebrew Scriptures does it say that God is omnipotent. — Tony Campolo

The Hebrew word for meek really means "to be molded." The — John Hagee

Jews are just like everyone else, only more so. — Lionel Blue

And the Vatican, whatever anyone else might have thought on the subject, answered, like Hebrew National hot dogs, to "a higher authority. — Anonymous

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

My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha'am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew together, and often the reading was Ahad Ha'am's essays. — Noam Chomsky

Before Ben-Yehuda ... Jews could speak Hebrew; after him they did. — Cecil Roth

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

Hebrew was frozen, like frozen peas, fresh out of the Bible. — Etgar Keret

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

I'd like to be an academic, a philosophy lecturer if possible. I'd do a Masters in Ancient Hebrew maybe, and a Ph.D. hopefully, if I get in. — Jack Gleeson

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

Some providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards. — John Flavel

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

I said it in Hebrew - I said it in Dutch - I said it in German and Greek; But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) That English is what you speak! — Lewis Carroll

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

Wherever it's spoken, Gaelic sounds like a combination of Swedish and Hebrew. — Howard Tomb

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

However, the word madda in modern Hebrew specifically means science. — Norman Lamm

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

Christ comes from the Greek word christos, which means "anointed." It corresponds to the Hebrew word translated "messiah." When Jesus is called — R.C. Sproul

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

Both gospels employ the term "Son of God" exactly as it is used throughout the Hebrew Scriptures: as a royal title, not a description. — Reza Aslan

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

When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It has a roller-coaster effect. — Etgar Keret

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

It often is better to ask an ancient Hebrew goatherd, instead of a so-called expert like myself, about the meaning of a particular, biblical story. — Richard Gist

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

Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus. — Anne Lamott

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

one legend has it that Jews found Poland attractive because the country's name sounded like the Hebrew imperative po lin ("rest here"). — Diane Ackerman

Hebrew as a contemporary language, especially for poetry, is no longer the language of the Bible; but neither is it not the language of the Bible. — Cynthia Ozick