Famous quotes containing the word hebrew:
“Where there is no vision, the people perish.”
—Bible: Hebrew Proverbs, 29:18.
President John F. Kennedy quoted this passage on the eve of his assassination in Dallas, Texas; recorded in Theodore C. Sorenson’s biography, Kennedy, Epilogue (1965)
“Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled:t hou takest away their
breath, they die, and return to their dust.”
—Bible: Hebrew Psalm CIV (l. CIV, 29)
“Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.”
—Bible: Hebrew Song of Solomon, 4:5.