Henrietta Szold famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

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

#Duty
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

#Lying #Views #Heritage
Dare to dream... and when you dream, dream big.
-- Henrietta Szold

#Dream #Dare To Dream #Bigs
the more I see of Italy and her treasures, the more I see paganism in Christianity ...
-- Henrietta Szold

#Treasure #Paganism #Christianity
The Jewish heart has always starved unless it was fed through the Jewish intellect.
-- Henrietta Szold

#Heart #Feds #Intellect
In the life of the spirit there is no ending that is not a beginning.
-- Henrietta Szold

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

#Religious #Women #Religion

There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer...the hand of the child touching the arm of the Father and moving the wheel of the universe.
I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.
Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.
I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?
It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions which could not be extracted from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behavior not otherwise excusable.
Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.
Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.
Everything. I have done everything you wanted...You asked that the child be taken. I took him. You cowered before me. I was frightening...I have reordered time...I have turned the world upside down...And I have done it all for you. I am exhausted from living up to your expectations.

Henrietta Szold famous quotes

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