#jewish

I am hungry for power, but not to lord over others; only to own myself. ↗

— Deborah Feldman

#freedom-of-expression #freedom-of-religion #hunger #jewish #jews

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#carlyle #change #christian #comparison #direction

There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish families are close. ↗

— Richard Rogers

#families #family #italian #jewish #then

‎I was cursed with the pessimism of both the Russians and the Jews two of the gloomiest tribes in the world. Still if there wasn't greatness in me maybe I had the talent to recognize it in others even in the most irritating others. ↗

— David Benioff

#history #inspirational #jewish #jews #pessimism

We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us. ↗

— Gary Ackerman

#congress #jewish #lot #members #some

It seemed ironic that Lowell Levine and I, who were both Jewish, were going over to identify the remains of a man who was so anti-Semitic. ↗

— Michael Baden

#both #going #i #identify #ironic

I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic looking and brilliant. So we got married and had three children. ↗

— Dominic Chianese

#brilliant #brooklyn #children #college #dark

When Jesus calls his disciples 'brothers' and 'friends', he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of brotherhood which is not tribal, but open to any person. ↗

— David Kirk

#breaking #brotherhood #brothers #calls #concept

Jon Stewart is exactly the same guy he's always been, only with money. He knows that the moment he really believes he's important, the funny goes away and he becomes Bill O'Reilly, except shorter and Jewish. ↗

— Denis Leary

#away #becomes #been #believes #bill

I went to this very disorganized Jewish summer camp in Maine called Camp Modin. ↗

— David Wain

#camp #disorganized #i #jewish #maine