Golda Meir Quotes

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.

I'm sure that someday children in schools will study the history of the men [sic] who made war as you study an absurdity. They'll be shocked, just as today we're shocked with cannibalism.

Fashion is an imposition, a rein on freedom.

Don't be humble. Your not that great.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them.

The dog that trots about finds a bone.

There is no Zionism except the rescue of Jews.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals

Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

In Israel, we read from right to left. [To Henry Kissinger, US Secretary of State, who had written her that he considers himself 'an American first, Secretary of State second, and a Jew third']

Don't be so humble, you're not that great

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

It's not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.

Come to think of it, I am more than a little tired of hearing about how the Jews ‘stole’ land from Arabs in Palestine. The facts are quite different. A lot of good money changed hands, and a lot of Arabs became very rich indeed.