Hebrew Resembles

Famous quotes containing the words hebrew and/or resembles:

“How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!”
—Bible: Hebrew Lamentations 1:1.

Said of Jerusalem.

“It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)