Jew Quotes - Page 20

• One cannot live on potatoes alone. It is said that one wants bread with potatoes. And when there's no bread, a Jew takes his stick, and goes through the village in search of business.

  Sholom Aleichem

  Village, Want, Bread

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• I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy: it's serious business.

  Maya Angelou

  Christian, Mother, Buddhist

  Interview with George Plimpton (Summer 1990), as published in "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Ninth Series" edited by George Plimpton, July 1, 1992.

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• We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.

  Yasser Arafat

  Islamic, Israel, Population

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We will not bend or fail until the blood of every last Jew from the youngest child to the oldest elder is spilt to redeem our land!

  Yasser Arafat

  Children, Blood, Land

  "The Legacy of Islamic AntiSemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History" by Andrew Boston, Prometheus Books, (p. 682), 2008.

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• For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.

  Karen Armstrong

  Christian, Able, Middle East

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• I’m tenacious, I think – I know – and I do also have a quality where if you tell me I can’t do something, if I know I can’t do it I’m the first to raise my hand and say, “I can’t do that.” But there is a big Bronx, New York Jew in me that just says, “Really? Really? You think I – yes, I can. I can do it. I can do it.

  Ellen Barkin

  New York, Thinking, Hands

  "Actress-producer Ellen Barkin". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 14, 2011.

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• As Prime Minister of Israel, I will introduce a bill into the Knesset that will simply pay the Arabs not to shoot at the Jews.

  Roseanne Barr

  Israel, Pay, Bills

  "12 Crazy Things Presidential Candidate Roseanne Barr Has Said About The United States" by Jordan Teicher, www.businessinsider.com. February 3, 2012.

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• I am an observant Jew! Now my secret is out.

  Roseanne Barr

  Secret, Observant

  "Roseanne Barr Says Israel Must End Their Blockade and Occupation of Gaza". Interview with Kathleen Wells, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• I was not raised a Zionist, but a socialist, as were most Jews before the Holocaust.

  Roseanne Barr

  Holocaust, Socialist, Zionist

  "Roseanne Barr Says Israel Must End Their Blockade and Occupation of Gaza". Interview with Kathleen Wells, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• The Holocaust committed by the Nazis turned this country, where most of the European Jews used to live and where their culture used to flourish, into a massive grave. This is why initiatives to revive Jewish culture in Poland is so important.

  Marek Belka

  Country, Holocaust, Important

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• Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and when the unification of Jews and Christians into the people of God will take place.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Christian, Israel, Hands

  "God and the World: A Conversation with Peter Seewald". Book by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, October 06, 2000.

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• Most American media outlets that are controlled by Jews seem to be reflexively, or at least habitually, anti-Israel.

  Conrad Black

  Israel, Media, Outlets

  "'Conrad Black: NY Times is 'anti-Israel'" by Dylan Byers, www.politico.com. November 29, 2012.

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• That the Jews assumed a right exclusively to the benefits of God will be a lasting witness against them and the same will it be against Christians.

  William Blake

  God, Christian, Benefits

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.615, Univ of California Press

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• What chance does a five-foot-seven billionaire Jew who's divorced really have of becoming president?

  Michael Bloomberg

  Feet, President, Doe

  "Bloomberg’s Day" by Micah Sifry, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 28, 2007.

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• And when I'd be reporting in Israel, Palestinians would say, the Jews they're not like us, and the Jews would say the same things about the Palestinians, they don't want what we want. And I never bought it as a reporter and I don't buy it as a novelist. I think, you know, the sound of somebody crying for their lost child sounds the same.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Children, Thinking, Israel

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• When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin.

  Mel Brooks

  Feelings, Germany, Berlin

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• I believe, literally, in the God of the Old Testament, whom I understand as the Lord of the Jews and the Protestants. I'm a Christian Zionist, as well as a Christian feminist and a Christian socialist.

  Julie Burchill

  Christian, Believe, Feminist

  "For the love of Christ" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2008.

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• God's love doesn't leave out Jews or Muslims or anyone.

  Dyan Cannon

  God's Love

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• I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God's eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews - everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.

  Jimmy Carter

  Attitude, Believe, Eye

  "President Jimmy Carter Authors New Bible Book, Answers Hard Biblical Questions". Interview with Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2012.

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• I don't think anyone has been slandered more than the Jews.

  Fidel Castro

  Thinking, Has Beens

  "Castro: 'No One Has Been Slandered More Than the Jews'". Interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, www.theatlantic.com. September 7, 2010.

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• Brunettes are troublemakers. They're worse than the Jews.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Brunette, Troublemaker

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• If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Jesus, Humor

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• There's also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny.

  Larry David

  Might, Way, Certain

  "When Ricky met Larry" by Giles Smith, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 11, 2005.

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• I'm a cultural Christian in the same way many of my friends call themselves cultural Jews or cultural Muslims.

  Richard Dawkins

  Christian, Way, My Friends

  "Atheist Dawkins Calls Himself a 'Cultural Christian'" by Lawrence D. Jones, www.christianpost.com. December 11, 2007.

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• I am a peace supporting Jew.

  Alan Dershowitz

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