Accounts Quote by Bayard Taylor

“Jerusalem has a way of disappointing in tormenting both conquerors and visitors. The contrast between the real and heavenly cities is so excruciating that…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“Jerusalem, ----How cruel it was, after all, that the geographical center of their faith was not actually located within the confines of the Christian…

— Alaa Alghamdi

When I remember thee in days to come, O Jerusalem, it will not be with pleasure. The musty deposits of 2,000 years of inhumanity,…

— Theodor Herzl

My family has been rooted and intertwined with Jerusalem for generations, and I am among those who say every day, 'May You return to…

— Isaac Herzog

Jerusalem the golden, with milk and honey blessed, beneath thy contemplation sink heart and voice oppressed.

— John Mason Neale

In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed…

— Bayard Taylor

Jerusalem has been - and for many, still is - a metaphor for destruction and the vengeance of an offended God. She is the…

— Amos Elon

I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.

— Anonymous

“Jerusalem, How cruel it was, after all, That the geographical center of their faith was not actually located within the confines of the Christian…

— Alaa Alghamdi

Jerusalem the Golden, With milk and honey blest, eneath thy contemplation Sink heart and voice oppressed.

— John Mason Neale

“Jerusalem! My Love,My Town I wept until my tears were dry I prayed until the candles flickered I knelt until the floor creaked I…

— Nizar Qabbani

For all its rooted loveliness, the world has no continuing city here; it is an outlandish place, a foreign home, a session in via…

— Robert Farrar Capon