Song of Solomon

I am my beloved, and my beloved is me.
Song of Solomon

The Jew is neither a newcomer nor an alien in this country or on this continent; his Americanism is as original and ancient as that of any race or people with the exception of the American Indian and other aborigines. He came in the caravels of Columbus, and he knocked at the gates of New Amsterdam only thirty-five years after the Pilgrim Fathers stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock.
Oscar Solomon Straus

How far is far, how high is high? We'll never know until we try.
Song From The California Special Olympics

A wise man's question contains half the answer.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

And when I was born, I drew in the common air, and fell upon the earth, which is of like nature; and the first voice which I uttered was crying, as all others do.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

All men have one entrance into life, and the like going out.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

If God is watching us, we might as well be interesting.
Solomon Short

Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

One is punished by the very things by which he sins.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

I didn't need to depend on the record company to publish my records.
Solomon Burke

The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

As long as a word remains unspoken, you are its master; once you utter it, you are its slave.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.
Solomon Short

Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.
Solomon Ortiz

Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Apollo Records signed me for my gospel ability.
Solomon Burke

From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor.
Solomon Ortiz

Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.
Solomon Short

I learned a great deal from Atlantic. Atlantic taught me how to walk in this life of music, it taught me how to fall and how to get myself back up.
Solomon Burke

As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.
Solomon Burke

A diploma only proves that you know how to look up answers.
Solomon Short

By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
Solomon Schechter

I'm still amazed people remembered and didn't give up on me.
Solomon Burke

He knows what He's doing, and sometimes we project what we can't see, but only God knows what's going to happen, and He knows the best. For all of us.
Solomon Burke

I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me.
Solomon Burke

I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do.
Solomon Burke

I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.
Solomon Burke

I have fought to protect those benefits that ensure better salaries for teachers across the Nation such as grants to pay off student loans and funding for Teach for America. Still, we must all do more to show our continued appreciation for our Nation's leading role models.
Solomon Ortiz

I walked out of the Chinese restaurant with a fat check, a record deal, and a box of shrimp egg foo yung!
Solomon Burke

I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects.
Solomon Ortiz

In fact, in 2002, the Secretary of Defense authorized such support on a reimbursable basis to organizations formerly components of the Department of Justice and Department of the Treasury and currently components of the Department of Homeland Security.
Solomon Ortiz

You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.
Solomon Schechter

Education is the silver bullet to improve this Nation's standing worldwide... and our teachers know that.
Solomon Ortiz

I want to be a soul singer.
Solomon Burke

For my constituents, owning a home is the culmination of many years of hard work and the realization of the American Dream. At no time should a local entity take those years of hard work solely to increase their tax revenue.
Solomon Ortiz

I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.
Solomon Burke

Kings may be judges of the earth, but wise men are the judges of kings.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

I should have my own publishing companies.
Solomon Burke

In South Texas, we understand how vital port security is and we fear the day a weapon of mass destruction could be brought into a U.S. port in a container and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties.
Solomon Ortiz

I fought for Texas teachers' Social Security benefits by advocating the amendment to the Teacher Social Security Protection Act that protected them.
Solomon Ortiz

But we didn't have the financial structure, like the right attorneys, the right managers, the right accountants, and we were going against the grain of what black entertainers is supposed to do.
Solomon Burke

Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?
Solomon Short