Szold Quotes & Sayings

My misfortune is my ability to see both sides even of the fundamental religious question. — Henrietta Szold

Each person has the potential of making a positive impact on the world. It all depends on what you do with what you have. Success is not to be measured by the amount of money you possess or the position you attain but rather in how you use both. Position and money can be squandered or abused, but they can also be used to help others. — Gary Chapman

Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could. — Henrietta Szold

There has been evidence throughout history of cycles when the earth gets warmer and cycles when the earth gets colder. We should always be wise stewards of the earth and all of our natural resources. But as a policymaker, I won't be guided by the global warming propaganda machine. Al Gore - we need you to return your Nobel Peace Prize! — Raul Labrador

Part of the joy and pleasure of English is its boundless creativity: I can describe a new machine as bicyclish, I can say that I'm vitamining myself to stave off a cold, I can complain that someone is the smilingest person I've ever seen, and I can decide, out of the blue, that 'fetch' is now the word I want to use to mean 'cool.' — Erin McKean

Dare to dream ... and when you dream, dream big. — Henrietta Szold

One of my moments of coming to writing, of needing to write to attempt to create myself, to attempt to absolve and understand my past passivity, came when a girl I loved very much, who I had been estranged from for some time, killed herself. — Kate Zambreno

To the rest of us the supreme vindication of the scholar's view lies in their invincible allegiance to the Jewish heritage - a steadfastness that has been matched only by that of their rescuers. — Henrietta Szold

The more I see of Italy and her treasures, the more I see paganism in Christianity ... — Henrietta Szold

In the life of the spirit there is no ending that is not a beginning. — Henrietta Szold

One of life's mysteries is why two children growing up in the same home sometimes take radically different paths - one following Christ, the other rebellious and scornful. Yet it happens. — Billy Graham

The only pressure I feel is what I put on myself. — Andy Roddick

I would exchange everything for one child of my own. — Henrietta Szold

knew nonpoisonous snakes from the baddies, a lesson she still remembered — Sandra Hill

Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

The Jewish heart has always starved unless it was fed through the Jewish intellect. — Henrietta Szold