Told Israel National

Famous quotes containing the words told, israel and/or national:

    “The Boston papers had never told me that there were seals in the harbor. I had always associated these with the Esquimaux and other outlandish people. Yet from the parlor windows all along the coast you may see families of them sporting on the flats. They were as strange to me as the merman would be. Ladies who never walk in the woods, sail over the sea. To go to sea! Why, it is to have the experience of Noah,—to realize the deluge. Every vessel is an ark.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Never since has there arisen a prophet in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face.”
    —Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 34:10.

    “I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.”
    —Larry Speakes (b. 1939)