No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
Theodore Bikel
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More quotes by Theodore Bikel
- We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.
- Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.
- No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
- In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.
- I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.