“I have never been particularly good with languages. Despite a dozen years of Hebrew school and a lifetime of praying in the language, I'm ashamed to admit that I still can't read an Israeli newspaper. Besides English, the only language I speak with any degree of fluency is Spanish.” YearsStillsSchoolSpeakLanguagePrayingDegreesLifetimeNewspapersDespiteAshamedDozenIsraeliHebrewFluency Author:Joshua Foer
“When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul.” WayFirstsBookSoulLettersMy SoulMy WayHebrew Author:Shmuel Yosef Agnon
“English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background.” Has BeensLanguageMeetingsBackgroundsGreekLatinVacuumsRenaissanceHebrewCleanersVikingsLatin And Greek Author:David Crystal
“The Lord knows that I could not open scripture; he must by his prophetical office open it unto me. So after that being unsatisfied in the thing, the Lord was pleased to bring this scripture out of the Hebrews.” KnowsLordOfficeScriptureHebrewUnsatisfied Author:Anne Hutchinson
“Physics is nothing but the ABC's. Nature is an equation with an unknown, a Hebrew word which is written only with consonants to which reason has to add the dots.” ReasonWrittenAddPhysicsEquationsDotsHebrewConsonantsAbc's Author:Johann Georg Hamann
“When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It has a roller-coaster effect.” HalfEffectsKingsHip HopSentencesHipsHopsHebrewRoller CoasterCoastersKing James Bible Author:Etgar Keret