Top 1200 Jewish History Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I'm this little Canadian Jewish girl, and I'm living my dream.

Roses are reddish Violets are bluish If it weren't for Christmas We'd all be Jewish.

I came from a classic, literate, intellectual Jewish family.

I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.

I'm an honorary old Jewish lady of the West Village.

It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.

Jewish and Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem are interlaced one with the other.

Israel, as the Jewish state, must disappear from the map.

Silence, this will surprise you not, isn't really a Jewish concept.

I guess you could say I'm kind of Jewish but not really.

The older we get, the more Jewish we become in my family.

You can't love God without loving the Jewish people.

I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.

It matters a great deal that I come from a Jewish background.

I remind everybody that the Sabbath was the Jewish gift to civilization.

If you live in New York, even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish

No one in my family is Jewish; no one was raised as a Jew, me included.

I've got some Jewish ancestry and I don't like waste.

We've yet to deal with the uncomfortable history of England being involved in the transatlantic slave trade, whereas America has at least made some movies dealing with its racial history.

The Jewish community has always taken care of its own.

It's some chopped liver. That's Jewish soul food.

If all history is only an amplification of biography, the history of science may be most instructively read in the life and work of the men by whom the realms of Nature have been successively won.

Oral history is a research method. It is a way of conducting long, highly detailed interviews with people about their life experiences, often in multiple interview sessions. Oral history allows the person being interviewed to use their own language to talk about events in their life and the method is used by researchers in different fields like history, anthropology and sociology.

There's a level of shame attached to our history, and we need to replace that shame with pride and own our history. These are our superheroes. These are our people, and I would love to see us own this side of our history with pride.

If Mother Culture were to give an account of human history using these terms, it would go something like this: ' The Leavers were chapter one of human history -- a long and uneventful chapter. Their chapter of human history ended about ten thousand years ago with the birth of agriculture in the Near East. This event marked the beginning of chapter two, the chapter of the Takers. It's true there are still Leavers living in the world, but these are anachronisms, fossils -- people living in the past, people who just don't realize that their chapter of human history is over. '

Contrary to what we learn from progressives in education and the media, the history of the Democratic Party well into the twentieth century is a virtually uninterrupted history of thievery, corruption, and bigotry.

To call somebody a Jewish composer is obviously redundant.

Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? They're worth it.

Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.

Certainly there is not the fight recorded in Concord history, at least, if in the history of America, that will bear a moment's comparison with this, whether for the numbers engaged in it, or for the patriotism and heroism displayed.

I never thought I'd play an orthodox Jewish man.

I believe that the Jewish state will exist forever.

If you want to be Jewish, welcome, but convert via the Halacha.

For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.

It was a grave mistake to dismantle the Jewish communities in Sinai.

I went to an Orthodox Jewish children's home that became an orphanage.

It's certainly true that most of my close friends are Jewish.

I was raised Jewish. I didn't know anything about Christianity.

My children have no prejudices at all. My own brother-in-law is Jewish!

I'm Jewish, so I don't know much about Easter eggs.

My greatest inspiration is my Chinese and Jewish heritage and my travels.

Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.

I support Israel to be a Democratic, Jewish and safe country.

I'm always happy to be a part of history. When you're a part of history, you live forever. 'The T.A.M.I. Show' will live forever because now it's brand new. We did that 40-odd years ago, and people are really starting to see it now. I was a part of history when I recorded that show.

I think comedy allows people to accept the more difficult parts of history. And history, if it's presented wrong, is just very depressing, particularly the history of slavery. If slavery is presented properly, it's a great story. But I think that within the commercial world of storytelling in which I live, there haven't been many strong works that discuss slavery in ways that are palatable and funny and interesting to the reader.

In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been, but there is no might have been. There never was. It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even God--who knows all that can be known--seems powerless to change.

Communism is Judaism. The Jewish Revolution in Russia was in 1918.

I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry.

The primary task of a Jew in turbulent times is to be Jewish.

You know. I don't think I'm gonna be Jewish for very long.

Jewish Alzheimer's is forgetting everything except a grudge.

I get invited to an awful lot of Jewish functions.

Jewish skullcaps are obviously not a problem in our country.

There's a lot of anti-Semitism, and it's not just against the Jewish.

If you hate the Jewish people, you are not reflecting the teachings of Christ.

George W. Bush is history's president, a man for whom the long-term success or failure of democracy in Iraq will determine his place in history.

Working with the Jewish community is essential to me and what I stand for.

I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor.

Most people don't seem to know that I am Jewish.

I've always enjoyed the communal side of Jewish life.