Peretz Quotes & Sayings

Don't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity? — I.L. Peretz

Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby. — I.L. Peretz

The worst dog gets the best bone. — I.L. Peretz

If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool. — I.L. Peretz

We take a drink only for the sake of the benediction. — I.L. Peretz

At the Throne of Glory it is not the nobly-born that are beloved, but the nobly-risen. — I.L. Peretz

The Hebrew language ... is the only glue which holds together our scattered bones. It also holds together the rings in the chain of time ... It binds us to those who built pyramids, to those who shed their blood on the ramparts of Jerusalem, and to those who, at the burning stakes, cried Shema Yisrael! — I.L. Peretz

In this world it is very dangerous to be weak. — I.L. Peretz

In the second and third exiles we have served as a living protest against greed and hate, against physical force, against "might makes right"! — I.L. Peretz

[About Jews] Sheer egotism compels us to the purest love of mankind as a whole ... Our hearts are like a sponge, receptive to all the newest humanitarian ideas; and our sympathy goes out to all the unfortunate, all the oppressed. — I.L. Peretz

Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs. — Charles J. Sykes

No one in our town ever really died, because no one in our town ever lived, or did good or evil. We had no saints or sinners, only daydreamers in the World of Illusion. — I.L. Peretz

Many people are unaware that their every action (or their disinclination to take action) is a result of a belief or a thought pattern that developed throughout the years. — Gil Peretz, Nili Peretz

I don't have an all-embracing vision which people have to buy. I'm simply trying to work with the struggles we all deal with every day while we're trying to live out our personal destinies and make a living at the same time. — David Whyte

Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude , the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty. — I.L. Peretz

A people's memory is history; and as a man without a memory, so a people without a history cannot grow wiser, better. — I.L. Peretz

Perhaps, however, music retains a survival role in adults in that it allows the 'practice' of feeling emotions without having to risk the consequences of acting on these emotions. — Isabelle Peretz

Yiddish, the language which will ever bear witness to the violence and murder inflicted on us, bear the marks of our expulsions from land to land, the language which absorbed the wails of the fathers, the laments of the generations, the poison and bitterness of history, the language whose precious jewels are the undried, uncongealed Jewish tears. — I.L. Peretz

In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight. — Rabindranath Tagore

Prosperity may be found in small as in big business. — I.L. Peretz

[About Jews] By nature we are like all other human beings, yet our people is unlike others, because our life is different, our history is different, our teacher is the Exile. — I.L. Peretz

Ugliness is the greatest of all sins. — I.L. Peretz

There's no question Jason Reda can kick. He's gotten more and more confident and a little more consistent. — Ron Zook

A letter depends on how you read it, a melody on how you sing it. — I.L. Peretz

Old age is not just for grown up's — Benny Bellamacina

It is not only individuals peoples too cannot live merely for themselves. The whole world must be redeemed. — I.L. Peretz

Youth is fair, a graceful stag, Leaping, playing in a park. Age is gray, a toothless hag, Stumbling in the dark. — I.L. Peretz

To be of the eternal, you must be of the earth. — I.L. Peretz

[About the diaspora] Canaan is too small for God's children. The Land of Israel will spread through all lands! — I.L. Peretz

[About Jews] Among other nations, the vital problems are: a good crop, extension of the boundaries, strong armies, colonies; among us, if we wish to be true to ourselves, the vital questions are: conscience, freedom, culture, ethics. — I.L. Peretz

A stranger's rose is but a thorn. — I.L. Peretz

I'm a mother lion when it comes to protecting my children. — Joanna Cassidy

Time is change, transformation, evolution. — I.L. Peretz

A heap of bricks is not yet a house. — I.L. Peretz

Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox. — I.L. Peretz

But all of a sudden they're poets, right, like that's all it takes - being in love. — David Sedaris

I'm not sure anyone's ever experienced enlightenment, been born again, been called to repentance or decided to sell their belongings on account of a system. The voice, the tale, the image, the parable that gets through to you
that wins your heart
religiously is the one that makes it past your defenses. You've been won over, and you probably didn't see it coming. You've been enlisted into a drama, whether positively or negatively, and it shouldn't be controversial to note that it happens all the time. When you really think about it, there's one waiting around every corner. It's as near as the story, song or image you can't get out of your head. Religion happens when we get pulled in, moved, called out or compelled by something outside ourselves. It could be a car commercial, a lyric, a painting, a theatrical performance or the magnetic pull of an Apple store. The calls to worship are everywhere. — David Dark