Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: educator
  • Nationality: polish
  • Birth: January 11, 1907 - December 23, 1972

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The Sonics I found later and that was pretty important.

Jello Biafra

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Growing up in Highland Park, in high school, I had some very influential teachers: I had a math teacher who taught calculus that helped me learn to be in love with mathematics; I had a chemistry teacher who inspired us to work what was in the class and to go beyond.

John M. Grunsfeld

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I owe everything to the musicians I work with.

Robert Plant

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This constitution recognises the need for social dialogue involving labour and management; it involves trade unions in the decision-making process; it has a social vision founded on social dialogue.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

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In fact, it is often times a detriment for the Government to preemptively legislate on an issue before we can either define it or grasp its impact.

Steve Buyer

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The waist is a terrible thing to mind.

Tom Wilson

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Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

Lou Holtz

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'Dr Who' is an extraordinary association that I have because I didn't realise until I was in the show quite how worldwide it is and how popular and how dear it is to so many people's hearts.

Bonnie Langford

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'Walking the Bible' describes the year that I spent retracing the five books of Moses through the desert, and I was actually working on a follow-up, which would look at the rest of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.

Bruce Feiler

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If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force.

Auberon Herbert

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I tried writing out a plot with the second or third novel I wrote, and it was so boring, so desperately boring.

Philip Pullman

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If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.

Phil McGraw

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