Happy Hanukkah Sayings

#1. I say 'Merry Christmas' to people I don't know, or to people I know are Christians. I say 'Happy Hanukkah' to people I know to be or suspect to be Jewish. And I don't say 'Happy Kwanzaa,' because I think African Americans get enough insults all year round.

Christopher Hitchens

#2. Everyone thinks I'm Jewish. I'm not. Last year I got a call: "Happy Hanukkah." I said "Ma, I'm not Jewish.

Joy Behar

#3. Right then, the future was barely an hour long.

Tim Lebbon

#4. I had the notion that, OK, so now we have all of this wealth, we could buy not only one expensive car, we could buy all of them. As soon as you realize that you could buy all of them, then none of them are particularly interesting or satisfying.

Pierre Omidyar

#5. There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#6. My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

Abraham Lincoln

#7. Happy". I had not heard that word since Mr. Milgrom spoke it at the last Hanukkah. I asked him the question that had been on my mind since then. "Tata, what is happy?"
He looked at me and at the ceiling and back to me.
"Did you ever taste an orange?" he said.

Jerry Spinelli

#8. Faith is carrying your pain and problems to the invisible altar of God, laying them down and walking away, knowing that now they are in hands capable of doing what you could never do.

Toni Sorenson

#9. Following is easy. Being followed is hard.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#10. When we are young ... we often experience things in the present with a nostalgia-in-advance, but we seldom guess what we will truly prize years from now.

Edmund White

#11. He lights a cigarette off a candle. These death-tubes, these little crutches or fuses: useful for getting through all sorts of things you don't want to get through.

Garth Risk Hallberg