Famous quotes containing the words told, israel and/or national:
“I told him, Look at all those fightings and killings down there,
Whats the matter? Why dont you put a stop to it?
I try, he saidThats all he could do, he looked tired. Hes a bachelor so long, and he likes lentil soup.”
—Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)
“Let Israel hope in the Lord, for with the Lord there is mercy,
And with him is plenteous redemption. And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.”
—Bible: Hebrew Psalm CXXX (l. CXXX, 78)
“The cultivation of one set of faculties tends to the disuse of others. The loss of one faculty sharpens others; the blind are sensitive in touch. Has not the extreme cultivation of the commercial faculty permitted others as essential to national life, to be blighted by disease?”
—J. Ellen Foster (18401910)