When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.
I come from a family of professional dog-showers, one step above carnies, but I didn't want to join the family business.
On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one's own town.
Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.
The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level.
I just really want to make a good show and make it as interesting as I can, and anything else is kind of above my pay grade.
I promise, before God and my community, to seek reforms so that the powerful and corrupt are no longer above the law.
As God as my witness, they said, We're above the law. There's nothing you can do to us. You're just a church secretary.
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
For most of my life, I have received messages - images and worded communications, sometimes even in an ancient language - that came to me from above.
Above and beyond having the social life, to have a core group of people that you work with and spend time with and learn how to work with is a nice thing.
If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
I write literary biographies, so above all, I have to love the subject's books. But choosing a subject is tough.
Above all, there is Mother. She taught me how to love, how to have respect for other people.
Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.
And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.
Above all, we owe it to the children of the world to stop the conflicts and to create new horizons for them.
The trouble with the artists this year is they are all obsessed with Twitter and headlines. It feels like they are all getting a bit above themselves.
Above the sky, everything is beautiful, but alone. (Au-dessus du ciel, - Tout est beau, mais seul)
If there is one thing above all others a successful man should know, it is when to stop.
After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked.
