#moses

Yes, I'm a Judeo-Christian. Jesus and Moses are in my heart, and... both of them were independents, by the way. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#heart #i #independents #jesus #judeo-christian

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs. For my own people, it was important to imagine him as the Great Emancipator, the Moses who led us out of slavery. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#because #claim #closely #everyone #great

Kip Keino, Moses Tanui, Paul Tergat, they all come from my tribe. Some say it is the food we eat that makes us strong, the way we live. In the history of our people we wear no clothes and we are used to drinking the blood of animals. ↗

— Martin Lel

#clothes #come #drinking #eat #food

Every mother is like Moses. She does not enter the promised land. She prepares a world she will not see. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#enter #every #land #like #moses

First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

#framework #legislative #moses #mouth #narrative

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#congress #had #i #like #looked

How do we know that Moses was grown up? Because he went out unto his brethren, and was ready to bear the burdens and share the plight of his people. Maturity is sensitivity to human suffering. ↗

— Julius Gordon

#because #brethren #burdens #grown #his

Because you know that's all I needs, all I wants, is for you to try to run, to turn your back on me and run. I know you aint going to. Because all you got to beat is me. I got to beat old Carothers. Get your pistol." "No," the other said. "Go home. Get out of here. Tonight I will come to your house-----" "After this?" Lucas said. "Me and you, in the same country, breathing the same air even? No matter what you could say, what you could even prove so I would have to believe it, after this? Get your pistol. ↗

— William Faulkner

#dramatic-moment #go-down-moses #william-faulkner #home

Let me tell you the one thing I have against Moses. He took us forty years into the desert in order to bring us to the one place in the Middle East that has no oil! ↗

— Golda Meir

#funny #moses #funny

Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law. ↗

— Cecil B. DeMille

#down #god #handed #improved #law