Menorah Quotes

#1. Mentally, many of the residents are still, as they say, sharp like a tack, but some are now more like the other end of the tack, having been hit with the hammer of life much too often. You know, missing a few candles from their menorah.

Mark Reutlinger

#2. ... struck. Once. And into that blow he put his childhood, his grief, his loss. He put his mother's sorrow and his sister's longing. The menorah, weighed down with that, crushed the Hermit's skull.

Louise Penny

#3. In terms of my religious preference, if a year goes by and I don't have a Seder or I don't light the menorah, I feel a loss.

Jason Robert Brown

#4. Head back into the house. They were in their sixties, the kind of people who rushed outside to scold a kid who happened to walk across their grass to retrieve a Frisbee or baseball. And even though they were Jewish, they decorated their house with Christmas lights in addition to the menorah they

Nicholas Sparks

#5. We know a great deal about the configuration of the menorah from the biblical book of Exodus. Beaten out of solid gold, the ancient candelabrum boasted six branches emerging from a seventh, its central shaft. The menorah was adorned with golden buttons, cups, and flowers.

Meir Soloveichik

#6. There is respect for a heart like yours, and if its beating stop, the spirit lives to guard the ways you wandered.

Beryl Markham

#7. Life is available only in the present moment.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#8. There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She's confessed it.

Leo Tolstoy

#9. When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense.

Deborah Levy

#10. The task of the preacher, therefore, is to take the Bible and to do two things in every sermon: destroy self-righteousness and point hearers toward the alien, external righteousness of Christ.

Carl R. Trueman

#11. And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?

Frederic Bastiat

#12. Write this letter or we'll put you in a home, grandma.

Meg Cabot

#13. Very odd, old age. Always knew it would happen, if I was lucky. I just didn't expect it so soon.

Josephine Hart

#14. A high quality life starts with a high quality you!

Cheryl Richardson

#15. I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.

Jack O'Connell

#16. It may be there's such a thing as a tool than can't be used as a weapon, but I've never met one.

Matthew Woodring Stover

#17. It was just that there was something newly powerful about this assembled family in the car. They were all growing up and into each other like trees striving together for the sun.

Maggie Stiefvater

#18. I never cry about what I don't have. I'm always positive.

Fabio Capello