Seder's Quotes

#1. Truth be told, for a 21st Century American Jew there is something hollow in the Seder's liberation story and the commandment to feel as if you were there.

Ezekiel Emanuel

#2. Jenny held
her breath wondering whether her matzo would pass muster.

Adam Yamey

#3. When you take the small roads you see the life that goes on there, and this makes your own life larger.

Elizabeth Berg

#4. I have visited some places where the differences between black and white are not as profound as they used to be, but I think there is a new form of racism growing in Europe and that is focused on people who are Middle Eastern. I see it.

Montel Williams

#5. Remember, you must not sleep at the Seder. If you do, Elijah the Prophet will come with a bag on his shoulders. On the two first nights of Passover, Elijah the Prophet goes about looking for those who have fallen asleep at the Seder, and takes them away in his bag.

Sholom Aleichem

#6. Personalized medicine is an art that advocates for the patient, not the pocket or convenience of the medical system.

Melissa Cady

#7. If God never gave me one more thing in my life, then you, right now, would be enough. You are my Dayeinu

S. Khubiar

#8. Tell me something about yourself that no one else knows.

Colleen Hoover

#9. 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

#10. I know what 'Doctor Who' fans are like because I am a 'Doctor Who' fan myself. They're good people.

Peter Capaldi

#11. Every change is a form of liberation. My mother used to say a change is always good even if it's for the worse.

Paula Rego

#12. this was exactly what he did: became a turtle, all hard shell. It was the perfect protection, the perfect weapon. She lost every time. She understood that

Gayle Forman

#13. The purpose of the Seder to my mind is to inspire conversations with your family about the human drama and hopefully transmit values to the next generation. I've always felt like this could be better.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#14. They were donuts of darkness.

Jim Butcher

#15. During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.

Bobby Knight

#16. Our failures in charity are chained to a narrowed vision of the world that makes too much of the differences between us, and this is our enslavement.

Rebecca Goldstein

#17. The real question here is what happens to you, Gunther. In many ways you're a useful fellow to have around. Like a bent coat hanger in a toolbox, you're not something that was ever designed for a specific job, but you do manage to come in useful sometimes.

Philip Kerr

#18. Saying so regardless, for the kids' sake. Was it possible that Arch's spirit resided here, that his soul

Elin Hilderbrand

#19. Well, Joe Biden has done it again. He showed up at the White House Passover Seder with a bunch of ham sandwiches.

Jay Leno

#20. Have you ever, on a cloudless night, looked down from a passing aircraft flying over Canada? Endless, glowing strings of cities, towns, and homesteads. Stretching on and on, one province to the next. With only the stars in the distance.

Paul Martin

#21. She finally understood that, no matter how hard you try, you can't make someone love you. You can't stop them from making the wrong decision. There's no magic for that.

Sarah Addison Allen

#22. I was fortunate to be raised by loving grandparents.

Ronnie Milsap

#23. Passover takes place in the home rather than the synagogue and centers around an epic meal - the seder - so you remember Passover as storytelling, you remember it in food, and you remember it in the family.

Simon Schama