Yitzchak Meir Quotes & Sayings

The original mixed ancestry of the Jews and their subsequent history of intermixture with every people among whom they have lived and continue to live ... — Ashley Montagu

Businessmen are not in business to lose customers, and schools do not exist to free their clients from the agencies of mass persuasion. School and media possess a productive monopoly upon the imagination of a child. — Jonathan Kozol

There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all human beings sooner or later, and, like the measles, is mild or violent according to the age of the sufferer. — Mark Twain

What I remember best from those times is the music itself. When it succeded, we took hold of the audience's attention, working it from a distracted, unshaped mass into spun beauty, passing the fine strands back and forth until we wove together something grander, not only music but memory, too-the particulars of past and present, stretched taut across a loom of timeless ideals. Harmony. Symmetry. Order. — Andromeda Romano-Lax

Who is this that comes in grandeur, coming from the blazing East? This is he we had not thought of, this is he the airy Christ. — Stevie Smith

The difficulties besetting the translators of the LXX were very great. It was almost impossible to reproduce the native inimitableness of a Semitic language in an Aryan tongue. They had to adopt new constructions, some lexical and syntactical forms which were foreign to the older Greek. — John Courtenay James

Before you can make a difference, you have to believe you can. — Anne Sweeney

If I keep my promises to the Lord, He will always keep His promises to me. He [will] always fulfill His end of the bargain - and much, much more - if I fulfill mine. — L. Tom Perry

Finding peace within, to find peace all throughout — Casar Jacobson