Hebrew Quotes · Page 9

“The ruach blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but cannot tell from where it comes or where it goes. God…

— Rabbi Sipporah Joseph

[I had Bar mitzvah ]it was just me and my mom. And she's celebrating. And she's reading things to me in Hebrew.…

— Trevor Noah

After [Bill Shawn] was fired, I was going to the YMHA [Young Men's Hebrew Association] on the Upper East Side to do…

— Nat Hentoff

Nature is not personal. She is the compound of all these processes which move through the universe to effect the results we…

— Luther Burbank

What is Scripture? The Hebrew word is torah. Torah means teaching, learning.

— Elie Wiesel

I have never been particularly good with languages. Despite a dozen years of Hebrew school and a lifetime of praying in the…

— Joshua Foer

Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language.

— Cynthia Ozick

Since I was 18 years old, I have taught the Bible. For the last fifteen or twenty years, I have taught every…

— Jimmy Carter

I learned Hebrew from a high school teacher named Mr. Cohen. We would drive down the highway to meet his car, and…

— Israel Horovitz

Slavs, Latin, and Hebrew immigrants are human weeds ... a deadweight of human waste. Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a menace to…

— Margaret Sanger

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.…

— Jack Gleeson

We the undersigned, intend to establish an instruction and training institution which differs from the common elementary schools principally in that it…

— C. F. W. Walther

“Most Christians believe that Jesus IS God, that Jesus is the same jealous and angry God that abhorred homosexuals and condemned them…

— David G. McAfee

I was fascinated by the lack of a word for a parent who has lost a child. We have no word in…

— Colum McCann

Since the Exodus, freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.

— Heinrich Heine

The Hebrew will turn Christian; he grows kind.

— William Shakespeare

Latin! The language of God! Or perhaps He speaks Hebrew? I suppose that's more likely and it will make things rather awkward…

— Bernard Cornwell

Since Oliver Cowdery was born in 1806 and was in Poultney from 1809 to 1825, he was resident in Poultney from 3…

— Thomas Ferguson

The word resentment means to re-feel...to feel again. Someone wrongs or wounds you; in resenting it, you re-feel the injury. And you…

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— John Flavel

Some people read their Bibles in Hebrew, some in Greek; I like to read mine in the Holy Ghost.

— Smith Wigglesworth

I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.

— David Antin

Hebrew has a system of tenses, which is, in a big way, different from the English system of tenses, probably different than…

— Amos Oz

Hebrew is deeply inspired by other languages.

— Amos Oz

Birth Control is not contraception indiscriminately and thoughtlessly practiced. It means the release and cultivation of the better racial elements in our…

— Margaret Sanger