Jewish Rabbis Quotes

#1. Clergymen tend to be unreliable and pompous figures. Seldom Jewish rabbis, less often Catholic priests, but Protestant ministers tend to be ... not really very admirable. Not necessarily evil, but silly. And wrong, of course.

Charlton Heston

#2. Those who have done the impossible, often didn't know it was impossible when they did it.

The Prophet Of Life

#3. By giving our students practice in talking with others, we give them frames for thinking on their own.

Lev S. Vygotsky

#4. Still believe, I suppose, in the coming of the White and in finding a place to make a stand ... and defending that place to the death.

Stephen King

#5. Watching his sister be a mother was perhaps the greatest argument for marriage. And watching his niece spit up on her was perhaps the best argument against procreation.

Kate Noble

#6. The Orthodox believe in Jewish literacy, and most of the rest of us couldn't care less. Rabbis and other creatures have a monopoly on Judaism. This is a turnoff in a world that is increasingly secular and that has turned away from religion. Jews are simply turning away from Judaism.

Michael Steinhardt

#7. Jewish Warsaw, which was roughly a third of Warsaw proper, was a city of rabbis and swindlers, capitalists and poets; but, most of all, it was a city of talkers. There were so many ideas in the air you could get an education simply by breathing deeply. (p. 206)

Rebecca Goldstein

#8. The United States as usual has a sizable deficit in the current account of its balance of payments, trade account and other current accounts, current account items.

Robert C. Solomon

#9. Commercial speech is like obscenity ... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.

Jef I. Richards

#10. To have a man be able to touch her and bring her to the edge of release in a matter of seconds was a skill rarely found. "As rare as the Arc of the Covenant," Sophie mumbled to herself.

Donna Grant

#11. I am a reformed Taoist, part-time Buddhist, Hindu, animist, pagan, Jewish mystic, and Christian. I always got along great with priests and rabbis and mullahs and gurus, even though I spend most of my life constructively criticizing them.

Steven Van Zandt

#12. In the Talmud (a record of discussions of Jewish law and ethics by ancient rabbis) it is said that charity is equal in importance to all the other commandments combined, and that Jews should give at least 10 percent of their income as tzedakah.

Peter Singer

#13. According to Jewish legend, only the very wisest and very holiest rabbis had the power to make golems, animated servants of clay. Strictly speaking, the golem is not in the same class with Frankenstein's monster, because the golem is neither alive nor dead. He is, rather, the ancestor of all robots.

Kage Baker