Hebrew Quotes
119 quotes by 106 authors
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of…
— Dani Shapiro
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One of the stranger things about me is that I was raised as an Orthodox Jew. I went to a yeshiva until I was thirteen…
— Dani Shapiro
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From antiquity, Latin died but is still studied in seminaries and elite universities. So did Sanskrit in Asia. iI was replaced by Pali, but even…
— F. Sionil Jose
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Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language.
— Cynthia Ozick
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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…
— Cynthia Ozick
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I cried to my mother that I wanted to go to Hebrew school; I wanted Jewish friends. But when my mother took me, the kids…
— Caroline Leavitt
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I learned Hebrew from a high school teacher named Mr. Cohen. We would drive down the highway to meet his car, and Jewish boys from…
— Israel Horovitz
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I just went to Hebrew school, had a bar mitzvah. No crazy weird Jewish cult.
— Hayden Schlossberg
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I have been aware since my youth that I am a Hebrew through my mother, and that is something that has played a subtle but…
— Amar'e Stoudemire
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Judaism has always been a strong interest of mine. My two sons speak Hebrew and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This…
— Herman Wouk
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Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the…
— Isaac D'Israeli
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I might do something in Arabic. I might do something in Hebrew.
— Stevie Wonder
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What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era? Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by the bull of…
— John Adams
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The knowledge of the causal power of thought is the basis of all their (Hebrew) prophecies, as it is the basis of all real wisdom…
— James Allen
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Hebrew 9:28 So Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but…
— Magdalyn
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It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of to-day.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Creation science is an attempt to give credibility to Hebrew mythology by making people believe that the world's foremost biologists, paleontologists, and geologists are a…
— Unknown Author
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I bailed on Hebrew school early on. So I kind of memorized my Bar Mitzvah piece and then the day before I had to do…
— Paul Rudd
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By seeking God we keep moving forward in the Kingdom of God. (2 Chronicles 26:5) He sought God in the days of Zechariah, who had…
— GODDEY WILSON
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