Being seventy is not a sin. It’s not a joy, either.
GOLDA MEIRIt isn’t enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.
More Golda Meir Quotes
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You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.
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Can we today measure devotion to husband and children by our indifference to everything else?
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Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.
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Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.
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There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.
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There will be peace in the Middle East only when the Arabs love their children more than they hate Israel.
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I’m sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men who made war as you study an absurdity. They’ll be shocked, just as today we’re shocked with cannibalism.
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I’m a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.
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The modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don’t fill up my life?
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As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
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It isn’t enough to believe in something; you have to have the stamina to meet obstacles and overcome them, to struggle.
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You can’t improve on saying nothing.
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My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you’re in it there’s nothing you can do. You can’t stop a plane, you can’t stop a storm, you can’t stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.
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