Famous quotes containing the words british, israelites and/or point:
“Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“The Israelites groaned under their slavery, and cried out. Out of the slavery their cry for help rose up to God.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 2:23.
“This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)