Jerusalem Quotes

• You ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem; it is they who made it famous.

  Winston Churchill

  Made, Jew, Ought

  "The Zen of Living and Dying: A Practical and Spiritual Guide".

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• The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Israel, Views, Heaven

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5014, Delphi Classics

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• Pray for the peace of Jerusalem and thine own soul shall be refreshed.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Soul, Praying

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2016). “Morning & Evening”, p.366, Bible Study Steps

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• You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.

  Elie Wiesel

  Return, Mystery, Shaking

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• A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Art, Memories, Men

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby, etc”, p.113

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• Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.

  Yehuda Amichai

  Israel, Cities, Eternity

  Yehuda Amichai (2013). “The Selected Poetry Of Yehuda Amichai”, p.54, Univ of California Press

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• Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.

  David K. Shipler

  Spiritual, Song, Age

  David K. Shipler (2015). “Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land”, p.28, Broadway Books

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• No city in the world, not even Athens or Rome, ever played as great a role in the life of a nation for so long a time, as Jerusalem has done in the life of the Jewish people.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Israel, Rome, Cities

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• Jerusalem is old, Jerusalem is new, Jerusalem can hold Moslem, Christian, Jew.

  Don McLean

  Christian, Religious, Religion

  Song: Jerusalem

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• The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.

  Yasser Arafat

  Victory, Flags, March

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To open the Bible is to open a window toward Jerusalem, as Daniel did (6:10), no matter where our exile may have taken us.

  N. T. Wright

  Taken, May, Matter

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• First of all, Arafat is wrong. Jerusalem is Israel's capital, will never be divided, and will remain the capital of the State of Israel, the capital of the Jewish people, for ever and ever.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, People, Firsts

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• After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Return, Possession, Burned

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• I often hear them accuse Israel of Judaizing Jerusalem. That's like accusing America of Americanizing Washington, or the British of Anglicizing London. You know why we're called 'Jews'? Because we come from Judea.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, America, London

  Address to the U.N. General Assembly, mfa.gov.il. September 23, 2011.

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• The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

  Thomas Paine

  Religious, Bipolar, Religion

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• The Israelis are mistaken if they think we do not have an alternative to negotiations. By Allah I swear they are wrong. The Palestinian people are prepared to sacrifice the last boy and the last girl so that the Palestinian flag will be flown over the walls, the churches and the mosques of Jerusalem.

  Yasser Arafat

  Girl, Wall, Sacrifice

  Yasser Arafat's speech at a party to celebrate the birth of his daughter (August 6, 1995), as quoted in "Haaretz", September 6, 1995, and in "The Jerusalem Post", September 7, 1995.

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• He (Abraham Lincoln) said he wanted to visit the Holy Land and see those places hallowed by the footprints of the Saviour. He was saying there was no city he so much desired to see as Jerusalem. And with the words half spoken on his tongue, the bullet of the assassin entered the brain, and the soul of the great and good President was carried by the angels to the New Jerusalem above.

  Mary Todd Lincoln

  Angel, Land, Cities

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• Jerusalem has been our capital for 3,000 years and it's going to be our capital for eternity

  Naftali Bennett

  Years, Eternity, Has Beens

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• Jerusalem (1804) And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green And was the holy lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen And did the countenance divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills And was Jerusalem builded here Among those dark Satanic mills Bring me my bow of burning gold Bring me my arrows of desire Bring me my spears o'clouds unfold Bring me my chariot of fire I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand 'Til we have built Jerusalem In England's green and pleasant land

  William Blake

  Sleep, Fighting, Dark

  'Milton' (1804-10) Preface 'And did those feet in ancient time'

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• I give you the end of a golden string, Only wind it into a ball, It will lead you in at Heaven's gate Built in Jerusalem's wall.

  William Blake

  Wall, Wind, Giving

  "I give you the end of a golden string" (1815)

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• There was a time when I liked a good riot. Put on some heavy old street clothes that could stand a bit of sidewalk-scraping, infect myself with something good and contagious, then go out and stamp on some cops. It was great, being nine years old.

  Warren Ellis

  Clothes, Years, Nine

  "Transmetropolitan. Back on the Street (issues #1–3)". Comic book by Warren Ellis,

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• Jerusalem Syndrome is actually a rare psychological condition that occurs to some visitors to the Middle East. They get to Israel and just snap.

  Marc Maron

  Easter, Israel, Middle East

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• Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance with the glory of our empire, the dignity of our name, the customs of our ancestors.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Practice, Names, Sacred

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• I will not cease from mental fight Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand.

  William Blake

  Sleep, Fighting, Hands

  'Milton' (1804-10) Preface 'And did those feet in ancient time'

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• Anyone who relinquishes a single inch of Jerusalem is neither an Arab nor a Muslim.

  Yasser Arafat

  Inches

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