Shtetl's Quotes

#1. And so was the synagogue lifted and moved. It was in 1783 that wheels were attached, making the shtetl's ever-changing negotiation of Jewishness and Humanness less of a schlep.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#2. The White Mars [project] is a bold move that will add significantly to our understanding of how to deal with the challenge of human exploration of the Red Planet.

Robert Zubrin

#3. What you choose to focus on becomes your reality.

Jen Sincero

#4. I think once you start eating people you should stop claiming to be a vegetarian, even if you only eat bad people.

James Nicoll

#5. What we are here to do is to meet and become the person we are.

Andrew Harvey

#6. He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed.

Confucius

#7. When we walk, the two halves of our brains converse.

Julia Cameron

#8. in 1596 a man called William Wayte claimed to have been set upon by four assailants outside the Swan Theatre

Neil MacGregor

#9. I don't want the big flashing lights and red carpet, like, 'Here comes another Bon Iver album!' I just want it to be my bedroom-y thing. But that'll take a while to figure out.

Justin Vernon

#10. You can take a Jew out of a shtetl, but you cannot take a shtetl out of a Jew.

Sholom Aleichem

#11. Tom was not. "Seems to me," he said, "that she's at her drawing board evenings more than she's watching TV, and that you're the one who uses the sitting room for

Barbara Delinsky

#12. I didn't have a fireworks moment for my salvation. I had a falling in love with Jesus in Sunday school when I was a very young child.

Beth Moore

#13. It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor.

Jerry Leiber

#14. And as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them into shapes, and give to airy nothings a local habitation and a name.

William Shakespeare

#15. Whenever spring comes to New York I can't stand the suggestion of the land that come blowing over the river from New Jersey and I've got to go. So I went.

Jack Kerouac

#16. A powerful wind swept through the shtetl, making it whistle. Those studying obscure texts in dimly lit rooms looked up. Lovers making amends and promises, amendments and excuses, fell silent.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#17. Experience to a politician is like experience to a prostitute - not much to recommend them.

Charley Reese

#18. When I first started auditioning I would stutter a lot because I was so terribly frightened.

Nicholas Brendon