Quote

I have a brother younger than me. My mother was a librarian, so from her, I got the taste to read.

Shimon Peres

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Shimon Peres
Age: 93 †
Born: 1923
Born: August 16
Died: 2016
Died: September 28
Poet
Politician
President Of Israel
Writer
Vishneva
Szymon Perski
Peres
Brother
Read
Mother
Librarian
Younger
Taste

More quotes by Shimon Peres

Image
Historic justice has been done by killing Saddam.
Shimon Peres
Image
I think peace should be done not only among governments but among people. It was impossible before the Facebook.
Shimon Peres
Image
The president of Iran should remember that Iran can also be wiped off the map.
Shimon Peres
Image
The Holocaust is a great warning to us all. We shall never forget our sisters and brothers. We have to ensure it is not repeated and to ensure we never go back to the days when humans behaved as beasts. Forgetfulness is a menace, we must remember.
Shimon Peres
Image
Can any church help us to win a war? If you can't help us win a war, then please don't press us.
Shimon Peres
Image
Look, we have existed for 4,000 years - 2,000 years in diaspora, in exile. Nobody in the Middle East speaks their original language but Israel. When we started 64 years ago, we were 650,000 people. So, you know, we are maybe swimming a little bit against the stream, but we continue to swim.
Shimon Peres
Image
Today, Israel is stronger than ever. Israel has defensive tools of its own - those developed in the past and those developed today and those that will be developed tomorrow.
Shimon Peres
Image
What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part?
Shimon Peres
Image
In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.
Shimon Peres
Image
The Middle East is replete with both new and old threats. One should not underestimate these threats, but not be alarmed by them either. Israel is stronger today than ever.
Shimon Peres
Image
Israel is a start-up nation, and I think it can be done in other places. I will do it outside the government. I don't need the government.
Shimon Peres
Image
The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.
Shimon Peres
Image
In order to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear country you have to introduce a system of verification and inspection.
Shimon Peres
Image
The Iranian regime suppresses its own people as well as others in the region. It prevents peace by sponsoring terror globally. With the ultimate weapon that it is deceptively developing, the regime aims to gain hegemony over the entire Middle East and hold the world's economy hostage.
Shimon Peres
Image
I will confine myself to reaffirming the Israel will not be the first country to introduce nuclear weapons to the region.
Shimon Peres
Image
Our problem is not to submit to the differences but to overcome them.
Shimon Peres
Image
Some experts advise what to do in accordance with the past, but the past flew away, and we have to reorient ourselves in the face of new dangers.
Shimon Peres
Image
When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist.
Shimon Peres
Image
The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person.
Shimon Peres
Image
He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.
Shimon Peres