Quotes of: Jewish-state Keyword

All sorts of other lies are being spread today, I do not know what else they will invent. I've heard that I'm of Jewish descent, but I found, I knew of my ancestors in Zagorje from around 350 years ago, and I said, maybe it would be good to have some...

Franjo Tudjman

The Christians tried to separate themselves from the Jewish crowd so they wouldn't be the recipients of the persecution of the Romans. And the way they did it was to say, the Jews killed our hero too. And so Christians began to define themselves over...

John Shelby Spong

My daughter Gabby very kindly once said that she thinks I was a better mother because I was doing a job I loved. I now think guilt is a universal part of being a mother. I used to think it was Jewish-mother guilt but now I think it is working-mother ...

Donna Karan

I grew up in a suburb of Baltimore with an extremely high concentration of Jewish families - where the Levys and Cohens in the high school yearbook went on for pages, where I could count far more temples than I ever could churches. Anti-Semitism, in ...

Jeffrey Kluger

The role of Charlie Eppes has changed me. I never imagined I would play a role like this. I lost some weight, grew my hair and now every woman in America over 40 wants to date me. It's their daughters I want to convince. The truth is all this talk ma...

David Krumholtz

[first lines] Title Cards: Note, any resemblance between Hynkle the Dictator and the Jewish Barber is purely co-incidental. Title Cards: This is a story of a period between two World Wars - an interim in which Insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose ...

The Great Dictator

Max Jerry Horovitz: Unfortunately, in America, babies are not found in cola cans. I asked my mother when I was four, and she said they came from eggs laid by rabbis. If you aren't Jewish, they're laid by Catholic nuns. If you're an atheist, they're l...

Mary and Max

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process. It needs not a map but a history...

A Grief Observed

Next time -- we will roll out the red carpet for you in the United States of Arabia, my brethren!

Brethren: A Gripping Tale of Counter Espionage

We put suffocation warnings on all the - on every piece of plastic film manufactured in the United States or for sale with an item in the United States. We put warnings on coffee cups to tell us that the contents may be hot. And we seem to think that...

Gever Tulley

Forgiving doesn't make the person who hurt you feel better, it makes you feel better.

2 States: The Story of My Marriage

The people of the United States will do anything for Latin America, except read about it.

Journalism's Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library..

Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem

I hoped Claire would have a girl. A nephew would be fun until he got his first erection and then he'd be like the rest of them.

A State of Jane

In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States.

Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

You might have liked the United States more,”” she said. “They’ve got more stuff. And if your spaceship is broken, they can probably fix it better.

Lagoon

There is no such thing as notoriety in the United States these days, let alone infamy. Celebrity is all.

For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports

I do not know if the people of the United States would vote for superior men if they ran for office, but there can be no doubt that such men do not run.

Tocqueville: Democracy in America

If someone says there's a portal to hell under some rocks, you bet your ass I'm going to move them.

Paranormal State: My Journey into the Unknown

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.

Writings: Autobiography/Notes on the State of Virginia/Public & Private Papers/Addresses/Letters

I think that Governor Romney needs to talk about the fact that what he tried to do in the state of Massachusetts was him seeing what could be best for his state, but maybe it didn't work out as well.

Allen West