Ceremony Quote by David Antin

I enjoyed translating half a Bible page, with my mom back in Australia, into Hebrew.

— Ashley Zukerman

I can remember the lush spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it around my mouth like marbles--tabernacle and pharisee and…

— Penelope Lively

I have undertaken to translate the Bible into German. This was good for me; otherwise I might have died in the mistaken notion that…

— Martin Luther

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Only 8000 different words appear in the Hebrew Bible, compared to the 20,000 or more that the average adult needs to know in most languages.”

— Robert Lane Greene

Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.

— Yair Lapid

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

— Israel Horovitz

I learned a lot from both, initially Jewish and Muslim theologians that had been missing, perhaps from my rather parochial Catholic upbringing.

— Karen Armstrong

I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.

— Al Green

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of to-day.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Hebrew 6:10, “For God is not unjust to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His name, in that…

— Nancy D. Sheppard

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

— Etgar Keret