Jerusalem Palestine Quotes

#1. Even if only one guerilla cub survives the prolonged struggle, I am confident that he will raise the flag of Palestine overJerusalem ... Jerusalem is destined to be the eternal capital of our sovereign, independent Palestinian state under the P.L.O. leadership.

Yasser Arafat

#2. the people of Lebanon' were offering a 'model' and a 'strong proof that it is not only Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem which Arab armies and peoples are capable of liberating, but - with one small decision and a bit of determination - [the whole of] Palestine too, from the river to the sea'.4

David Hirst

#3. When my father was growing up inside the Old City of Jerusalem, he and his friends liked to trade desserts after diner.

Naomi Shibab Nye

#4. The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.

Yasser Arafat

#5. The purpose of life is to obey the hidden command which ensures harmony among all and creates an ever better world. We are not created only to enjoy the world, we are created in order to evolve the cosmos.

Maria Montessori

#6. Israel must withdraw from Jerusalem so that it becomes the capital of a state of Palestine.

Yasser Arafat

#7. The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.

Ichiro Suzuki

#8. It's very easy to leave when things go wrong, but to stick around and to basically give life to a town because of everything that it gave you generation after generation after generation, that to me is what defines a true American.

Christian Bale

#9. No one has ever held me so tightly. It's a shock to matter this much. It isn't like arms are around me, it's more like a house, as if he has made a house around me. As he did around Tommy.

Kelle Groom

#10. Dead kids are put on pedestals, but mentally ill kids get hidden under the rug.

Neal Shusterman

#11. Thank you for that experience.

Oprah Winfrey

#12. The Partition of Palestine is illegal. It will never be recognized ... Jerusalem was and will for ever be our capital. Eretz Israel will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And for Ever.

Menachem Begin

#13. I really go against drama in my life. Life is too short.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

#14. The city was a puzzle box built of symbols, a confusion of old and new, armored cars and donkeys in the streets, Bedouins and bankers. The Turks and Haredim, the showy Greek and Russian processions -- everyone seemed to be in costume, reenacting the miraculous past.

Stewart O'Nan

#15. God offers to His children the promise of a glorious and infinite existence and has provided a way for us to progress in knowledge and glory until we receive a fulness of joy. He has promised us all that He has.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#16. Doing a job badly and then getting someone in to sort it out can be much more expensive than getting someone in to do the job properly in the first place.

Sarah Beeny

#17. In the eleventh century, a Jerusalem rabbi still recalled with gratitude the mercy God had shown his people when he allowed the "Kingdom of Ishmael" to conquer Palestine.

Karen Armstrong

#18. We promise you that we will not cede a single part of Palestine, we will not cede Jerusalem, we will continue to fight and we will not lay down our arms.

Ismail Haniyeh

#19. It is because you were not allowed to be a normal city with normal people, so much so that you become an abnormal place with abnormal people- Arabs and Jews alike.

Suad Amiry

#20. Its a matter of principle. If Jews born in Brooklyn have a right to a state in Palestine then Palestinians born in Jerusalem have a right to a state in Palestine.

Christopher Hitchens

#21. Logic was, formerly, the art of drawing inferences; it has now become the art of abstaining from inferences, since it has appeared that the inferences we feel naturally inclined to make are hardly ever valid.

Bertrand Russell

#22. Dark haired guys are so, so much better.

Estelle Maskame

#23. Hope is the confidence of brighter tomorrows.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. I come to listen to your pain and to hear the stories and memories of a few obsessed citizens. Jerusalem, I come to you in disguise: in over-colourful, immodest clothes and vulgar make-up... The only way I could come to you was in disguise, as a whore.

Suad Amiry