Jerusalem Quotes · Page 3

“Jerusalem is one stubborn city that refuses to roll over and die.”

— Nathan Erez

Arik is suffused with a mystical belief about Jerusalem.

— Reuven Rivlin

Jerusalem meant one thing for Jesus: certain death.

— John Piper

Jerusalem should not tolerate any religious war.

— Reuven Rivlin

But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem.

— Shmuel Yosef Agnon

The capital of Israel is Jerusalem, no matter what.

— Benny Gantz

Jerusalem is the holiest place for the Jewish people.

— Ariel Sharon

I always wanted to write a history of Jerusalem.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

Jerusalem is the eternal capital of the Jewish people, and the modern presence there just cements this.

— Erin O'Toole

Mark Rylance is one of my heroes. I saw 'Jerusalem' four or five times, twice in New York, twice in London.

— Charlie Cox

I found that each time I opened my camera and filmed Jerusalem, its image was overtaking what I wanted to express.

— Danae Elon

“Paul did go to Arabia, and not to Jerusalem, immediately following his conversion.”

— Kamal Salibi

The Book of Revelation is a description of one path to the New Jerusalem, but this scenario is not inevitable.

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

A nation has the capacity to choose its own capital city, and Jerusalem is Israel's capital.

— Mitt Romney

Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.

— Bible

The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.

— Yasser Arafat

Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the citythat kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often have I desired to gather…

— Anonymous

“A picture is not going to be like a stone that has been subjected to the rain and the heat and the…

— Refaat Alareer

René of Anjou [(1409-80)] painted a picture of his mistress's corpse as he found it eaten by worms on having it [her…

— Horace Walpole

I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000…

— Yair Lapid

From here [the Gaza withdrawal], our people begin the march towards establishing an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital

— Mahmoud Abbas

I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the…

— Bille August

My first memory as a child growing up is of playing in the gardens, the mosque is really a gigantic garden, probably…

— Rula Jebreal

In Zechariah 14.. their flesh dissolves away, because of the plague hitting them for coming against the Jews in Jerusalem. When did…

— Jack Van Impe

I have mixed feelings about Jerusalem. It is fascinating, it is beautiful, it is tragic, and it is extremely attractive to all…

— Amos Oz

No tabloid will ever print the startling news that the mummified body of Jesus of Nazareth has been discovered in old Jerusalem.…

— Anonymous

In Jerusalem, the various modes of worship essentially stood for the same cause but were equally hateful to one another. They never…

— Amos Elon

I believe in books. And when our people [coughing] - our people of Jerusalem, let's say after the Romans destroyed the temple…

— Elie Wiesel

Concerning the prayer that mountains fall to crush and hide, Farrar , says: "These words of Christ met with a painfully literal…

— Frederic Farrar

In my office in Jerusalem, there's an ancient seal. It's a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the…

— Benjamin Netanyahu

I tried Zen and Ching, numerology, tarot cards and astrology. I tried to look back into the Bible, and could not find…

— Cat Stevens

The Hebrew language... is the only glue which holds together our scattered bones. It also holds together the rings in the chain…

— I. L. Peretz

“All questions of right to one side, I have never been able to banish the queasy inner suspicion that Israel just did…

— Christopher Hitchens

“will, hereafter, see that the Church in Jerusalem”

— Anonymous

The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.

— Umberto Eco

England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient…

— William Blake

I lived in Jerusalem with the Temple Mount as my holy site. My Palestinian neighbors lived in Al-Quds with the Haram al-Sharif.

— Nathan Englander

“Sarucha (age 8): "Look, down there, I recognize it, ciudad de Jerusalén (the city of Jerusalem)! Jerusalén!, Jerusalén!" she exclaimed.”

— Rabbi Sipporah Joseph

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Jerusalem sits on a hill surrounded by valleys. It is a dry, craggy region but ideal for olive trees, which require minimal…

— Carol Drinkwater