Jerusalem Quotes
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Jerusalem will remain under Israeli sovereignty and will not be divided.
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I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.
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The Palestinians must be brought to an understanding that Jerusalem will always remain under Israeli sovereignty and that there is no point for them in opening negotiations about Jerusalem.
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I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.
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The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
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The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.
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Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.
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I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000 years for Tel Aviv but for Jerusalem.
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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.
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The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.
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We differ on several issues. And this may include settlement, the release of prisoners, the wall closing institutions in Jerusalem.
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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.
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Here (Jerusalem), tears do not weaken the eyes, they only polish and shine the hardness of faces like stone.
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I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.
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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.
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I think Jerusalem can be and should be the capital of two states.
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I regard this conclusion as coming in the same sort of category, of historical probability so high as to be virtually certain, as the death of Augustus in AD 14 or the fall of Jerusalem in AD 70
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That can be achieved by termination of Israeli occupation to the territories according to the international resolutions related, so the Palestinian State can be establish with Jerusalem as capital for such State.
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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.
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I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.
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After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.
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St. Cyril of Jerusalem, in instructing catechumens, wrote: “The dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware lest he devour you. We go to the Father of Souls, but it is necessary to pass by the dragon.” No matter what form the dragon may take, it is of this mysterious passage past him, or into his jaws, that stories of any depth will always be concerned to tell, and this being the case, it requires considerable courage at any time, in any country, not to turn away from the storyteller.
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England! awake! awake! awake! Jerusalem thy sister calls! Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of death And close her from thy ancient walls?
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But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem.
