Biblical Quote by Etgar Keret

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

— Etgar Keret

Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.

— Zubin Mehta

When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric.…

— Etgar Keret

“Biblical Hebrew is not a language in the full sense of the word but merely a 'fragment of language'.”

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

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

— Herman Wouk

“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

Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been penetrated and fertilized by ancient Semitic languages - by Aramaic, by Greek, by…

— Amos Oz

It sometimes happens to me while writing, that I seek a word; mischievous as it is it appears in English, it appears in Arabic,…

— Sami Michael

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

I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.

— Zubin Mehta

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

Yiddish is the voice of exile, the tongue of ghettos, but I'll shed a tear when it joins ancient Greek and dead Latin. For…

— Linda Barnes