Ahad Quotes

#1. My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha'am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew together, and often the reading was Ahad Ha'am's essays.

Noam Chomsky

#2. When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before I had to go to school, in third or fourth grade, and, for several hours, I would read 'The Iliad' or 'The Odyssey.'

Franz Wright

#3. More than the Jews have kept Shabbat, Shabbat has kept the Jews.

Ahad Ha'am

#4. [But if things continue the way they are] ... the society that I envision, if my dream is not just a false notion, this society will have to begin to create itself in the midst of fuss, noisiness and panic, and will have to face the prospects of both internal and external war ...

Ahad Ha'am

#5. I hated Woody Woodpecker and Scooby-Doo, but I was a cartoon freak.

John Goodman

#6. I really believe that music is the only motivation you need-regardless of genre-after that everything else you need to guide you just somehow falls in line-it's all about the beats!

Rickey Russell

#7. Historical truth is that, and that alone, which reveals the forces that go to mould the social life of mankind.

Ahad Ha'am

#8. Do not cry," she said fiercely, but her own tears flowed. "Do not cry, Finnikin. For if we begin, our tears will never end.

Melina Marchetta

#9. More than Israel has kept the Sabbath, the Sabbath has kept Israel.

Ahad Ha'am

#10. Crack is ruining the drug culture.

Hunter S. Thompson

#11. We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.

Nikita Khrushchev

#12. One can furnish a room very luxuriously by taking out furniture rather than putting it in.

Francis Jourdain

#13. This Moses, I say, this man of old time, whose existence and character you are trying to elucidate, matters to nobody but scholars like you.

Ahad Ha'am

#14. Your high points and your low points. High points don't last that long, it's a high and it happens. It's great at the moment but you really can't live on it.

Ric Ocasek

#15. The less their ability, the more their conceit.

Ahad Ha'am

#16. Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#17. What is national freedom if not a people's inner freedom to cultivate its abilities along the beaten path of its history?

Ahad Ha'am

#18. There is love here, among you. Such love as takes my breath out of my body. There has even been enough love left for me.

Cassandra Clare

#19. We can't ignore the fact that ahead of us is a great war and this war is going to need significant preparation.

Ahad Ha'am

#20. If this be the Messiah, then I do not wish to see his coming

Ahad Ha'am