King Hussein Quotes

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

The Old City of Jerusalem is in our hands.

I would never call Jerusalem beautiful or comfortable or consoling. But there's something about it that you can't turn away from.

I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.

I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.

For me, going to Minneapolis is like going to Mecca.

We all came to see that site. We all walked around it. It is already sacred.

Our eternal capital Jerusalem was and remains our top national priority.

Jerusalem has been our capital for 3,000 years and it's going to be our capital for eternity

Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.

The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.

But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem.

Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.

The Tower of David is important for Israel's heritage and existence because it is more than a tower, it is a symbol. It is more important than the Azrieli Towers.

I traveled with then-Senator Obama to Israel in 2008. I will never forget our time in the holy city of Jerusalem and following behind him as he approached the Western Wall - and even in the dark hours of that very early morning, it was a place bustling with energy afforded by one's faith.

I want to live in a country that is not just a place but also an idea, and Jerusalem is the heart of the idea. There may be practical considerations, but a country cannot exist without an ethos, and Jerusalem is an ethos.

In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a living city, but also the heart, the soul of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.

Arik is suffused with a mystical belief about Jerusalem.

The Taj Mahal can be a tourist attraction, an architectural marvel, but it can never be treated as a monument of faith. After all, there is a difference between tourism and faith.

If your church is the theatre, New York means a lot - it's a pilgrimage you want to make.

Jerusalem is ... the fabled city which for the Western mind is as much dream as stone ... a compressed symbol of our most sublime aspirations along with our most disgusting, hatefully brainless excursions into religious bigotry and fratricide.

You ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem; it is they who made it famous.

The Ganga, especially, is the river of India, beloved of her people, round which are intertwined her memories, her hopes and fears, her songs of triumph, her victories and her defeats. She has been a symbol of India's age-long culture and civilization, ever changing, ever flowing, and yet ever the same Ganga.

No city in the world, not even Athens or Rome, ever played as great a role in the life of a nation for so long a time, as Jerusalem has done in the life of the Jewish people.

When I was young, we didn't celebrate February 14. For us, Valentine's Day meant Saraswati Puja. And just a single day in a year can't be Valentine's Day.