Hanukkah Quotes

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  • Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart

  • When you compare Christmas to Hanukkah, there's no comparison. Christmas is great. Hanukkah sucks! First night you get socks. Second night, an eraser, a notebook. It's a Back-to-School holiday!

  • The proper response, as Hanukkah teaches, is not to curse the darkness but to light a candle.

    Irving Greenberg (2011). “The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays”, p.282, Simon and Schuster
  • President Obama held a ceremony at the White House to celebrate the first night of Hanukkah. In response, Republicans said, 'It's even worse than we thought. He's a Jewish Muslim.'

    Night   White   House  
  • Happy". I had not heard that word since Mr. Milgrom spoke it at the last Hanukkah. I asked him the question that had been on my mind since then. "Tata, what is happy?" He looked at me and at the ceiling and back to me. "Did you ever taste an orange?" he said.

    Orange   Mind   Ceilings  
    Jerry Spinelli (2011). “Milkweed”, p.142, Hachette UK
  • I say 'Merry Christmas' to people I don't know, or to people I know are Christians. I say 'Happy Hanukkah' to people I know to be or suspect to be Jewish. And I don't say 'Happy Kwanzaa,' because I think African Americans get enough insults all year round.

    "Christmas with Christopher Hitchens". Interview With Gregg Lagambina, www.avclub.com. December 20, 2007.
  • Do what you do. This Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year's Eve, Twelfth Night, Valentine's Day, Mardi Gras, St. Paddy's Day, and every day henceforth. Just do what you do. Live out your life and your traditions on your own terms. If it offends others, so be it. That's their problem.

    Chris Rose (2015). “1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina”, p.126, Simon and Schuster
  • Hanukkah is...the festival of lights, instead of one day of presents, we get eight crazy nights

    Crazy   Night   Eight  
  • I'm not against the Hanukkah songs. I like Hanukkah songs. I grew up with Hanukkah songs. I'm not opposed to Hanukkah or the songs that accompany it, at all.

    Song   Hanukkah   Grew Up  
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  • On this lovely, lovely Hanukkah, drink your gin and tonica.

    Song: The Hanukkah Song
  • Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

  • On Hanukkah, the first dark night, Light yourself a candle bright. I'll you, if you will me invite To dance within that gentle light.

    Dark   Night   Light  
  • To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle. Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.

    Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC
  • Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.

    Thucydides (1979). “The Speeches of Pericles”, Burns & Oates
  • The miracle, of course, was not that the oil for the sacred light - in a little cruse - lasted as long as they say; but that the courage of the Maccabees lasted to this day: let that nourish my flickering spirit.

    Oil   Light   Long  
    Charles Reznikoff, Seamus Cooney (2005). “The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975”, p.226, David R. Godine Publisher
  • Let the straight flower bespeak its purpose in straightness - to seek the light. Let the crooked flower bespeak its purpose in crookedness - to seek the light. Let the crookedness and straightness bespeak the light.

    Flower   Light   Purpose  
    Allen Ginsberg (1963). “Reality Sandwiches: 1953-1960: Pocket Poets Number 18”, p.62, City Lights Books
  • I have no religion because I was born and raised Jewish. And on the first night of Hanukkah, my parents, when I was very young, gave me a top to play with. They called it a dreidel. I knew it was a top. And as I looked at that top, I said, 'You know. I don't think I'm gonna be Jewish for very long.

    Night   Thinking   Play  
  • A pet store is a celebration of dogs' existence and an explosion of options. About cats, a pet store seems to say, 'Here, we couldn't think of anything else.' Cats are the Hanukkah of the animal world in this way. They are feted quietly and happily by a minority, but there's only so much hoopla applicable to them.

    Dog   Cat   Animal  
  • Just as Hanukkah candles are lighted one by one from a single flame, so the tale of the miracle is passed from one man to another, from one house to another, and to the whole House of Israel throughout the generations.

    Men   Israel   Flames  
    "Always Look on the Bright Side: Celebrating Each Day to the Fullest". Book by Allen Klein, p. 93, 2013.
  • Everyone thinks I'm Jewish. I'm not. Last year I got a call: "Happy Hanukkah." I said "Ma, I'm not Jewish."

    Thinking   Years   Lasts  
    "In the swirl of 'The View,' a stabilizing force" by Joanna Weiss, archive.boston.com. April 20, 2008.
  • Many Americans celebrate both Christmas and Xmas. Others celebrate one or the other. And some of us celebrate holidays that, although unconnected with the [winter] solstice, occur near it: Ramadan, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa.

    Xmas   Holiday   Winter  
  • Eight days the light continued on its own: A miracle, they say, but not more so Than ordinary lives of flesh and bone, Consuming wicks burned ashen long ago.

    Eight   Light   Long Ago  
  • That's what Hanukkah is about: trying to survive the darkness on the far-fetched hope there's still some life and light left in the universe. It's more than just a religious story. The days have been growing shorter, imperceptibly but inescapably darker.... Heading into the night of the winter solstice, every spiritual tradition has some kind of festival of light. We're all just whistling in the dark, hoping against hope that someone up there will see these little Hanukkah candles and get the hint.

    Lawrence Kushner (2010). “I'm God, You're Not: Observations on Organized Religion & Other Disguises of the Ego”, p.103, Jewish Lights Publishing
  • In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it "Christmas" and went to church; the Jews called it "Hanukka" and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say "Merry Christmas!" or "Happy Hanukka!" or (to the atheists) "Look out for the wall!"

    "Christmas Shopping: A Survivor's Guide" by Dave Barry, www.davebarry.com.
  • Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.

    Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.256, NYU Press
  • Kindle the taper like the steadfast star Ablaze on evening's forehead o'er the earth, And add each night a lustre till afar An eightfold splendor shine above thy hearth.

    Stars   Night   Shining  
    Emma Lazarus, John Hollander (2005). “Selected Poems”, p.87, Library of America
  • Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

    Life   Wisdom   Spiritual  
  • It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

  • Now, near the Winter Solstice, it is good to light candles. All the nice meanings of bringing light to the world can be beautiful. But perhaps we are concentrating on lighting the world because we don't know how to light up our own lives.

    Beautiful   Nice   Winter  
  • Is it possible Hanukkah doesn't inspire folksy songs? Plot lines may be a part. The Christmas story has a lot of material to work with. There's Jesus and his birth, the wise men, their gifts and tons of frankincense.

    Wise   Song   Jesus  
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