Hebrew Roots Quotes

#1. I sing a bit and play guitar.

Jesse Metcalfe

#2. The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.

Louisa May Alcott

#3. For you, dear Sophie, I would rope the moon itself and drag it to your window.

Sherry D. Ficklin

#4. Not only must we fight to end disastrous unfettered free trade agreements with China, Mexico, and other low wage countries, we must fight to fundamentally rewrite our trade agreements so that American products, not jobs, are our number one export.

Bernie Sanders

#5. Attachment is the source of all suffering.

Gautama Buddha

#6. Being that the *historical* Jesus was of pure Hebraic descent- lineage of Eber- He was not an Arab or of Arabic descent, therefore He was not dark skinned as most Israeli's are not."

~R. Alan Woods [2013]

R. Alan Woods

#7. I think it's hard, when you're someone who likes to please people, as I am, to be a boss. I had to learn how to rein myself in and not terrify people.

Ruth Reichl

#8. The goal, as Compaq has stated all along in its history, is to support an open industry standard.

Eckhard Pfeiffer

#9. Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

Horace

#10. Self-esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self-esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.

Bette Midler

#11. I think it's really important to always kind of stretch your boundaries and your limits and get out of your comfort zone. And for me, that's very important.

Joshua Bell

#12. Ideologies - isms which to the satisfaction of their adherents can explain everything and every occurence by deducing it from a single premise - are a very recent phenomenon ... Not before Hitler and Stalin were the great political potentialities of the ideologies discovered.

Hannah Arendt

#13. Here are circumstances when you are torn away like a leaf from a tree and no power can attach you again.
The wind carries you from your roots. There's a name for it in Hebrew, but I've forgotten."
"Na-v'nad - a fugitive and a wanderer."
"That's it.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#14. It's believing in those dreams and facing our fears head on that allows us to live our lives beyond our limits.

Amy Purdy

#15. Halfway through his reclusion, Arredondo experienced more than once that almost timeless time. In the first of the house's three patios there was cistern with a frog in it. It never occurred to Arredondo to think that the frog's time, which borders on eternity, was what he himself sought.

Jorge Luis Borges

#16. Writing a novel is so hard, and there are so many problems that the last thing you're thinking about is adapting this mess you have on your hands as a movie. You just want to get it to work as a novel. That's your main focus.

Maria Semple