Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theodore Bikel

I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.

Theodor Adorno

Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.

Matthew Henry

Everlasting life is a jewel of too great a value to be purchased by the wealth of this world.

Maya Angelou

Precious jewel, you glow, you shine, reflecting all the good things in the world. Just look at yourself.

Matsuo Basho

Seek on high bare trails Sky-reflecting violets... Mountain-top jewels

Lauryn Hill

Whether Jew or Gentile, I rank top percentile.

John Milton

And these gems of Heav'n, her starry train.

Michael Sandel

It is true that the Jewish tradition emphasizes the moral mandate to save life. It also has a different position from the Catholic Church on the moral status of the embryo. It has a more developmental view of when human life, in the sense of personhood, begins than does the Catholic Church.

Markus Zusak

They were French, they were Jews, and they were you.

Menachem Begin

Poles did not like Jews and they were worse than Germans.

Socrates

Regard your good name as the richest jewel yoou can possibly be possessed of.

Margaret Deland

the blue and cloudless day closes like the lid of a casket of jewels upon the violet rim of sea, and shuts out the light.

Mark Twain

Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it.

Kendall Jenner

In first grade, I told my friends I had a third story in my house filled with jewels and lions.

Steven T. Katz

The notion that Jews are mythic creatures is well circulating in our culture.

This is a very unique market here and Lake San Marcos is a jewel tucked into North County. We are also going to try to provide more local services so residents don't have to go out onto Rancho Santa Fe Road ---- because it's a different world out there.

Albert Speer

I knew that the National Socialist Party was anti-Semitic, and I knew that the Jews were being evacuated from Germany.

It's really a jewel that should not be taken for granted.

Meir Kahane

The G-d of History, the G-d of the Jewish people, called the world into being for one reason only and that was for the sake of the Jewish people and the Torah of Israel.

Ludwig van Beethoven

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

Hedy Lamarr

I'd rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance.

Lord Chesterfield

Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.

J. K. Rowling

A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Now and again he spoke to those that served him and thanked them in their own language. They smiled at him and said laughing: 'Here is a jewel among hobbits!

Iris Apfel

Jewelry is the most transformative thing you can wear.

Jill Soloway

There are times when folks will point out certain characteristics I have, like me being an interruptor, and attribute them to my Jewish identity.

Jill Scott

As slavery died for the greater good of America, and the movement for equality sputtered to life, the white woman was on the cover of every American magazine. She was the dazzling jewel on every movie screen, the glory of every commercial and television show.

Jill Scott

My grill is intended to be discreet. It's there because I enjoy jewelry.

Judith McNaught

Some women need no jewels to make them sparkle. You are one of them. -Royce Westmoreland

Ted Hughes

In the pit of red You hid from the bone-clinic whiteness But the jewel you lost was blue.

Richard Burton

This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.

Philip Sidney

The tip no jewel needs to wear: The tip is jewel of the ear.

John F. Kennedy

Philanthropy, charity, giving voluntarily and freely... call it what you like, but it is truly a jewel of an American tradition.