Jerusalem famous quotes

Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.
-- Abdallah II

#Waiting #Bombs #Jerusalem

I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.
-- Abdallah II

#Three #Looks #Jerusalem

The Amorites founded Jerusalem, they formed the Nordic weft in later Galilee, that is, in the "pagan region" whence some day Jesus was to come.
-- Alfred Rosenberg

#Jesus #Jerusalem #Pagan

I am the last person who would divide Jerusalem. I have said this many times. I don't plan to discuss any division of Jerusalem.
-- Ariel Sharon

#Division #Jerusalem #Lasts

I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies - the ecstacies of awe and reverence - in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected.
-- Bayard Taylor

#Jerusalem #Emotion #Assuming

I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.
-- Ben Nicholson

#Cities #Jerusalem #Addresses

First of all, Arafat is wrong. Jerusalem is Israel's capital, will never be divided, and will remain the capital of the State of Israel, the capital of the Jewish people, for ever and ever.
-- Benjamin Netanyahu

#Israel #People #Jerusalem

I often hear them accuse Israel of Judaizing Jerusalem. That's like accusing America of Americanizing Washington, or the British of Anglicizing London. You know why we're called 'Jews'? Because we come from Judea.
-- Benjamin Netanyahu

#Israel #America #Jerusalem

I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts.
-- Bille August

#Television #Four #Jerusalem

We regard it as our duty to declare that Jewish Jerusalem is an organic and inseparable part of the State of Israel, as it is an inseparable part of the history of Israel, of the faith of Israel.
-- David Ben-Gurion

#Israel #Jerusalem #States

The Olivet Discourse is not about the Second Coming of Christ. It is a prophecy of the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70.
-- David Chilton

#Jerusalem #Christ #Destruction

The formula for the parameters of a unilateral solution are: To maximize the number of Jews; to minimize the number of Palestinians; not to withdraw to the 1967 border and not to divide Jerusalem.
-- Ehud Olmert

#Numbers #Borders #Jerusalem

For me to propose a division of Jerusalem was really terrible. I did it because I reached a conclusion that without which there will not be peace.
-- Ehud Olmert

#Division #Jerusalem #Terrible

You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.
-- Elie Wiesel

#Jerusalem #Return #Mystery

Arab sovereignty in Jerusalem just cannot be. This city will not be divided-not half and half, not 60-40, not 75-25, nothing.
-- Golda Meir

#Cities #Half #Jerusalem

You can't simply redefine Jerusalem. The Palestinian claim is based on legality, on the international recognition that the situation created by the war in '67 is not valid.
-- Hanan Ashrawi

#War #Jerusalem #Recognition

The picture. A great plain, comprising the entire Jerusalem district, where is the supreme Commander-in-Chief of the forces of good, Christ our Lord: another plain near Babylon, where Lucifer is, at the head of the enemy.
-- Ignatius Loyola

#Enemy #Jerusalem #Christ

We promise you that we will not cede a single part of Palestine, we will not cede Jerusalem, we will continue to fight and we will not lay down our arms.
-- Ismail Haniyeh

#Fighting #Promise #Jerusalem

In the din and tumult of the age, the still small voice of Jerusalem remains our only music.
-- Israel Zangwill

#Voice #Age #Jerusalem

In Zechariah 14.. their flesh dissolves away, because of the plague hitting them for coming against the Jews in Jerusalem. When did that happen? I've never read when flesh dissolved; it can now, because of necrotizing fasciitis, or the neutron bomb, but not in 70AD.
-- Jack Van Impe

#Bombs #Neutrons #Jerusalem

Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.
-- Josephus

#Father #Cities #Jerusalem

If they had connived a scheme, and Christ had not been raised from the dead, where would have been the hardest place on the face of the earth to convince anyone? In Jerusalem.
-- Josh McDowell

#Earth #Jerusalem #Faces

Jerusalem Syndrome is actually a rare psychological condition that occurs to some visitors to the Middle East. They get to Israel and just snap.
-- Marc Maron

#Easter #Israel #Jerusalem

Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance with the glory of our empire, the dignity of our name, the customs of our ancestors.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

#Practice #Names #Jerusalem

The Partition of Palestine is illegal. It will never be recognized .... Jerusalem was and will for ever be our capital. Eretz Israel will be restored to the people of Israel. All of it. And for Ever.
-- Menachem Begin

#Israel #People #Jerusalem

I never thought I'd live to see the day that an American administration would denounce the state of Israel for rebuilding Jerusalem.
-- Mike Pence

#Israel #Jerusalem #Rebuilding

To open the Bible is to open a window toward Jerusalem, as Daniel did (6:10), no matter where our exile may have taken us.
-- N. T. Wright

#Taken #Jerusalem #May

The resurrection proclamation could not have been maintained in Jerusalem for a single day, for a single hour, if the emptiness of the tomb had not been established as a fact.
-- Paul Althaus

#Easter #Jerusalem #Facts

Jews have always yearned for Jerusalem, from which they'd been exiled many times, but they also yearned for each and every one of the countries where they had been persecuted and where their ancestors once lived and are still buried.
-- Phyllis Chesler

#Country #Jerusalem #Buried

But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem.
-- Shmuel Yosef Agnon

#Jerusalem #Born

After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.
-- Shmuel Yosef Agnon

#Return #Jerusalem #Possession

I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen.
-- Shmuel Yosef Agnon

#Heart #Jerusalem #Virtue

There were only a few shepherds at the first Bethlehem. The ox and the donkey understood more of the first Christmas than the high priests in Jerusalem. And it is the same today.
-- Thomas Merton

#Christmas #Jerusalem #Today

We considered ourselves Jordanian until the Jews returned to Jerusalem. Then all of the sudden we were Palestinians – they removed the star from the Jordanian flag and all at once we had a Palestinian flag.
-- Walid Shoebat

#Stars #Flags #Jerusalem

The fields from Islington to Marybone, To Primrose Hill and Saint John's Wood, Were builded over with pillars of gold; And there Jerusalem's pillars stood.
-- William Blake

#Gold #Jerusalem #Woods

You ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem; it was they who made it famous.
-- Winston Churchill

#Jerusalem #Made #Jew

The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.
-- Yasser Arafat

#Victory #Flags #Jerusalem

The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.
-- Yasser Arafat

#Trying #Jerusalem #Rifles

Martyrs, martyrs, martyrs,... we want a million martyrs to march on Jerusalem.
-- Yasser Arafat

#Islamic #Jerusalem #Want

Jordan recognizes that east Jerusalem is the capital of the Palestinian state and Jordan rejects foreign sovereignty -- Israeli sovereignty -- over the holy sites
-- Yasser Arafat

#Rejection #East #Jerusalem

We will make the lives of the infidels hell - millions of martyrs marching on Jerusalem.
-- Yasser Arafat

#Israel #Jerusalem #Hell

The Palestinian state is within our grasp. Soon the Palestinian flag will fly on the walls, the minarets and the cathedrals of Jerusalem.
-- Yasser Arafat

#Wall #Flags #Jerusalem

Anyone who relinquishes a single inch of Jerusalem is neither an Arab nor a Muslim.
-- Yasser Arafat

#Jerusalem #Inches

Jerusalem is the capital of the Palestinian state.
-- Yasser Arafat

#Jerusalem #States #Palestinian

Israel must withdraw from Jerusalem so that it becomes the capital of a state of Palestine.
-- Yasser Arafat

#Israel #Jerusalem #States

Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.
-- Yehuda Amichai

#Cities #Jerusalem #Eternity

Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.
-- Yitzhak Rabin

#Jerusalem #United

I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.
-- Yitzhak Rabin

#Israel #Years #Jerusalem

Israel’s days without Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip are gone and will not return.
-- Yitzhak Shamir

#Israel #Gone #Jerusalem

I found that each time I opened my camera and filmed Jerusalem, its image was overtaking what I wanted to express.
-- Danae Elon

#Cameras #Jerusalem #Found

The picture. A great plain, comprising the entire Jerusalem district, where is the supreme Commander-in-Chief of the forces of good, Christ our Lord: another plain near Babylon, where Lucifer is, at the head of the enemy.
-- Ignatius of Loyola

#Enemy #Jerusalem #Christ

The new film I'm shooting in Jerusalem - which is partly why I'm here in Israel - is something I co-wrote.
-- Meital Dohan

#Israel #Shooting #Jerusalem

Last Vegas is a counterfeit version of the New Jerusalem. And it shares something of the glorious reality that it mocks.
-- Richard J. Mouw

#Reality #Vegas #Jerusalem

I always wanted to open a delicatessen in Jerusalem and call it 'Cheeses of Nazareth'.
-- Sandi Toksvig

#Food #Jerusalem #Nazareth

I knew very well that I could not stay. Everything collapsed. Everything in my life just collapsed, and it started with the kidnapping of three teenaged settlers and then judging the life - the young Palestinian from Jerusalem. That was the day that I decided that I have to go now.
-- Sayed Kashua

#Judging #Three #Jerusalem

In Tel Aviv the weekends last 48 hours. In Jerusalem they last 6 months.
-- Ze'ev Chafets

#Weekend #Jerusalem #Lasts

Jerusalem has been our capital for 3,000 years and it's going to be our capital for eternity
-- Naftali Bennett

#Years #Jerusalem #Eternity