49 Hebrew Quotes for You to Enjoy

When I visited Israel for the first time, in 2014, on a trip sponsored by the National Religious Broadcasters, I went to the Museum of The Bible with our group. There, we saw the most ancient and original versions of both the Hebrew and Christian bibles. Katie Pavlich

I grew up pretty secular. I went to public school, and all the Jews that I knew, none of them were religious. While probably half of my friends were Jewish, they were all secular Jews. We went to Hebrew school, we knew we were Jewish, but it wasn't a major part of our existence. Matisyahu

School Secular Half Jews Our Religious Pretty Part Knew Major Major Part None Were Existence Up Friends Grew Hebrew While Public Them Public School Jewish

My grandfather sold insurance to King Farouk of Egypt. And my savta's parents helped found the city of Tel Aviv in 1906. Our family name used to be Mizrahi, but they changed it to Mayron, which means 'happy water' in Hebrew. Melanie Mayron

Family Happy Water King Parents Changed Our Sold City Name Insurance Egypt Hebrew Which Grandfather Means Used Helped Found

I was raised in a Jewish family, but since I was adopted, my parents sent me to Hebrew school and Bible chapel, so I got the best of both worlds - singing in both a choir in Bible chapel and a chorus in Hebrew school. It shaped me and my voice. Michelle Visage

I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year. Natalie Portman

Speak Year Fluent Once Visit Dream Hebrew Even Twice

There is a very beautiful expression in the Hebrew language that's borrowed from spoken Torah... 'All is predicted, and permission is given at any point to change anything.' I think I live by this idiom in the sense that there is always a goal; there is always something to look forward to in life and my creative search, and that goal is there. Neri Oxman

Life Beautiful Change Creative Language Sense Live Think Torah Borrowed Something Given Point Spoken Look Idiom Always Permission Goal Very Any Anything Predicted Hebrew Forward Search Expression

I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don't know how much experience you've had with contemporary Hebrew. It's quite difficult. Noam Chomsky

You Experience Trouble Reading Difficult Could Had Know Contemporary Read How How Much Modern Quite Anything Hebrew Much

I don't claim to know Israel. I don't speak Hebrew; my contacts are pretty limited. But I didn't know Vietnam; I didn't know Nicaragua, El Salvador or Honduras. It doesn't mean you can't reach your conclusions. Norman Finkelstein

You Speak Claim Pretty Contacts Reach Know Limited Conclusions Israel Salvador Hebrew El Salvador Mean Vietnam Your Nicaragua Honduras

However, the word madda in modern Hebrew specifically means science. Norman Lamm

Science Word However Modern Hebrew Means Specifically

I consider myself an atheist. My wife is Jewish. And I'm fine with my son being raised as a Jew. He's learning Hebrew and is really into it. I will talk to my own son about my atheism when the time is right. But there's a great tradition of Jewish atheism, there are no better atheists in the world than the Jews. Paul Giamatti

Time Myself Great Learning Atheist Son World Better Wife Will Own Jews Consider Atheism Atheists Fine About My Own He Talk Tradition Than Being Hebrew Really Right Raised Jew Jewish

I wanted to tell, in Hebrew, about my father who sat in jail for long years, with no trial, for his political ideas. I wanted to tell the Israelis a story, the Palestinian story. Sayed Kashua

Political Father Long Trial Tell About Ideas Israelis His Years Jail Wanted Hebrew Story Who Sat Palestinian

I might do something in Arabic. I might do something in Hebrew. Stevie Wonder

Arabic Something Hebrew Might

Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak. Yael Grobglas

Home Speak Complicated School Drama Drama School Back Everything Though Something More Could Almost Almost Everything Since Been Than Expected Did Hebrew Languages Speaking English Fascinating Whole Even Switch Career

I don't hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The people who signed me have no connection to Judaism or Israel. Yael Naim

Me People Hide Every Interview Say Signed Out No Connection Record Songs Put Judaism Israel Israeli Being Hebrew Who Connection

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

Language Road Also Thank Hebrew Swear Use Creator

I grew up in Jerusalem and went to school here. I studied at the Hebrew University - mostly Islam and Arabic: Arab literature, Arab poetry and culture, because I felt like we are living in this region, in the Middle East, and we are not alone: There are nations here whose culture is Arab. Yitzhak Navon

Alone Culture School Islam Living Arab East Arabic Poetry Studied Like Mostly Because Felt Up Nations Middle Grew Middle East Hebrew Literature Region Whose Jerusalem Here University

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 most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance. Isaac D'Israeli

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 important role in my development. Amar'e Stoudemire

Youth I Am Mother Important Something Through Development Since Important Role Am Been Role Subtle Hebrew Aware Played

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