Elie Wiesel Quotes

I went to Temple Emanu-El, and my rabbi, Rabbi Landsberg, was a huge influence on me. When I was 7 and went to kindergarten, there he was, a young rabbi who didn't wear a yarmulke and rode a motorcycle.

We had a Jewish school; we had a Jewish club. My father was a main donor. My mother was on the committee of the school.

I didn't know I was Jewish until I encountered anti-Semitism at the age of 10, when my best friend told me I couldn't come to their house because I was a Jew.

I'm really happy I went to a Catholic school because a lot of the repressive tactics they use make for great senses of humor.

My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in the rabbinate. My father said he wanted me to be a scholar of the Talmud, but he wanted me to make my living in science.

Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age.

When I was a young boy in San Francisco, I remember being sent home from playing with a friend, and I remember the mother saying, 'Tell Jeffrey to go home.' And I said to the girl, 'Why?' She goes, 'My mother says that you're the people who killed Christ.'

I went to several public schools. I went to religious school. I was thrown out of Hebrew school, which was the final straw. They said, 'God doesn't like you anymore. Go eat pork.'

I was raised in a Jewish family, but since I was adopted, my parents sent me to Hebrew school and Bible chapel, so I got the best of both worlds - singing in both a choir in Bible chapel and a chorus in Hebrew school. It shaped me and my voice.

I was raised in a time when parents brought out belts, and you got tough love.

My father taught me to study, study, study hard and he sent me to a very good Jewish school even though it was not near the house.

I went to Hebrew school but opted out of a bar mitzvah.

I went to an Orthodox Jewish children's home that became an orphanage.

You are not educated if all you have achieved is the study of ten books.

I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job.

My alma mater was books, a good library.

I have been at my book; and am now past the craggy paths of study, and come to the flowery plains of honour and reputation

The writer, an old man with a white moustache, had some difficulty getting into bed.

The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.

I always sent my mother all these huge books I made. When my mother died, I was cleaning her cupboard, and these big books were only 20 pages long. She edited out, maybe burned, every single photograph where I'm naked.

I had a deprived childhood, you see. I had lots of other kids to play with and my parents bought me outdoor toys and refused to ill-treat me, so it never occurred to me to seek solitary consolation with a good book.

The book, called the Bible, is filled with passages equally horrible, unjust and atrocious. This is the book to be read in schools in order to make our children loving, kind and gentle! This is the book they wish to be recognized in our Constitution as the source of all authority and justice!

Let our lives be open books for all to study.

I'm the only kid in the world who doesn't want an eighth Harry Potter book.

There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.