"[ My mother] went, OK, I've read the Bible. I've read the Bible again. I'm reading the Bible again. OK, let me - where does this Bible come from? What does this Old Testament speak - who are the Israelites? Who - what is Judaism? And then she went, and I'm going to study that. And, you know, she wanted to almost get to the core."

-- Trevor Noah

#Mother Quotes #Reading Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Pyp had stabbed a turnip with his knife. "The night is dark and full of turnips," he announced in a solemn voice. "Let us all pray for venison, my children, with some onions and a bit of tasty gravy.”
“I was never nervous. That's not me, ... Nervousness, scariness, that's not even in our vocabulary.”
“Heaven doesn't laugh. It just smiles and stares.”
“To all my critics, you get paid to be negative.”
“I'm really not an avowed heterosexual. I'm no more proud of it than of being white or tall.”
“Do not do that which others can do as well.”
“You have to get something down, and then find ways of working in complexity and different layers of meaning... My first drafts are usually the ravings of a delusional fantasist.”
“The historical relationship between Christians and Jews for most of the two thousand years of Christianity has not been good and it's been mostly persecution by Christians of Jews - not all the time, not every place, but mostly it's been that. I think that's just a terribly regretful thing. I don't see it anywhere in the Scriptures that I read, that Christians are to persecute Jews. I think it's been quite damaging. I think it's been a bad witness.”

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