Richard Farnsworth Quotes

Moses is our true founding father.

Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.

Let my people go!

When Israel was from bondage led,Led by the Almighty's handFrom out of foreign land,The great sea beheld and fled.

Moses, who said to the Israelites, Stop calling me Charlton! Never got a dinner!

You know that Moses was spinning like crazy in Exodus XIV through XVII when the Jewish people wanted to go back and become a place again because tramping through the desert was a bit too hard.

Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.

What's interesting to me about Moses isn't the big stuff that everybody knows.

If the angel Gabriel came to me and said, 'Look, I'm willing to take your soul now and give it back to you at any period of time in the history of the nation of Israel, from the very beginning to this very day' - I think I would not think of any other time except for when Moses brought down the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai.

For the religious, Passover is the grateful remembrance of a homeward journey after years of suffering.

'Creeping Death' - that was a special song for me as a kid, because that was the one that every single Jewish kid thought, 'Oh, Metallica wrote a song for us. He wrote it about the exodus of the Jews from Egypt under slavery.'

Moses, who said to the children of Israel, Wear your galoshes; I never did this trick before. Never got a dinner!

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

God handed his word to Moses. He didn't need the Tennessee General Assembly's help.

Since the Exodus, Freedom has always spoken with a Hebrew accent.

The first movie I saw was 'Prince of Egypt' - that was the first movie I saw in theaters.

Most of us have made the mistake that after they crossed the Red Sea they spent 40 years in the wilderness fighting amongst each other.

That [Exodus] occurred, I have no doubt.

Egypt: Where the Israelites would still be if Moses had been a bureaucrat.

I personally have no doubt that the Exodus occurred. How it occurred, I don't know.

When Israel, of the Lord belov'd, Out of the land of bondage came, Her fathers' God before her mov'd, An awful guide in smoke and flame.

Moses, who said when the Red Sea parted, What the hell was that? I was just going in for a dip! Never got a dinner!

Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!

In the Bible, God offered the Pharaoh freedom if he would just let the oppressed people free to go to the land of milk and honey. But the Pharaoh disobeyed, and he was destroyed.

The most enduring Top 10 ever written wasn't written at all, but chiseled onto stone tablets and conveyed down Mount Sinai by Moses, who introduced to the world not just a set of Biblical precepts but also a new format for starting arguments: the list of 10 things.