Ancient Quote by Amos Oz

I work in Hebrew. Hebrew is deeply inspired by other languages. Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been penetrated and…

— Amos Oz

Hebrew is deeply inspired by other languages.

— Amos Oz

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

— Cynthia Ozick

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

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

— Cynthia Ozick

I think that, in Hebrew, it's like the language creates a more unique and specific universe even before the story.

— Etgar Keret

Hebrew is this unique thing that you cannot translate to any other language. It has to do with its history.

— Etgar Keret

“Of all the languages that have existed upon the Earth, the Hebrew language is unique and extraordinary in its ability to paint vivid pictures…

— R. Alan Woods

“Hebrew ... linguistic development was far from uniform. Even though they share a number of common tendencies, a variety of Hebrew traditions is seen…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

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

— Joshua Foer

My two sons speak Hebrew, and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.

— Herman Wouk

English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings…

— David Crystal