A Quote by George Steiner

I learned early on that 'rabbi' means teacher, not priest.

George Steiner

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Teacher Early Learned Means Priest Rabbi

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George Steiner
American - Novelist
Born: April 23, 1929

Rabbi means teacher, and I see the role of chief rabbi as chief teacher.

Ephraim Mirvis

'Rabbi' means 'teacher,' and I see the role of chief rabbi as chief teacher.

Ephraim Mirvis

Read something of interest every day - something of interest to you, not to your teacher or your best friend or your minister/rabbi/priest. Comics count. So does poetry. So do editorials in your school newspaper. Or a biography of a rock star. Or an instructional manual. Or the Bible.

Jane Yolen

I went to Temple Emanu-El, and my rabbi, Rabbi Landsberg, was a huge influence on me. When I was 7 and went to kindergarten, there he was, a young rabbi who didn't wear a yarmulke and rode a motorcycle.

David Bryan

To me designing has never been a job or profession. It's a way of life, like a priest or rabbi.

Ed Benguiat

Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest.

Rodger Kamenetz

If I see any politician or a priest or an imam or a rabbi in the Paradise, I will give up believing in God!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

I learned early on what debt means, how vulnerable it makes people, what the security of owning a home means.

Elizabeth Warren

I want a priest, a rabbi and a Protestant minister. I want to hedge my bets.

Wilson Mizner

A Catholic priest, a Jewish rabbi, and a Muslim mullah all walk into a bar, and the bartender says: - What is this, a joke? - ?hurch is the only organization that exists primarily for the benefit of non-members.

C. S. Lewis

I know I would have learned a huge amount had I read the bible with my rabbi. But I also would have missed a huge amount, and I would have been guided down the narrow paths where the rabbi led me, not the paths that I chose for myself.

David Plotz

I would become a priest or a rabbi or a monk or whatever the hell was necessary to perform miracles such as taking money from someone else's pocket and putting it into mine, still remaining within the confines of the law.

Lenny Bruce

The dangers is that every religion, including the Catholic one, says "I have the ultimate truth." Then you start to rely on the priest, the mullah, the rabbi, or whoever, to be responsible for your acts. In fact, you are the only one who is responsible.

Paulo Coelho

It is easy for a rabbi to establish prohibitions, but a rabbi's real strength is to teach Torah and rule on lawwith an emphasis on what is permitted.

Ovadia Yosef

I was in several bands before I joined Judas Priest. Being in those early unknown bands were the stepping stones, really, so I learned a lot in those short few years jumping from one band to another.