I heard Yiddish when my father's family came to the house, which was as seldom as my mother could arrange it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish. — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Isaac Singer always wrote in Yiddish. He was so unsure of his English at the beginning that he was easy to edit… — Robert Giroux Copy Share Image
“The tongue-in-cheek Yiddish-English “translation” for R.S.V.P. is “Remember to Send Vedding Presents.” — Anita Diamant Copy Share Image
If they want to see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor. — Jerry Leiber Copy Share Image
There is a quiet humor in Yiddish and a gratitude for every day of life, every crumb of success, each encounter of… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Yiddish has a down-to-earth quality that makes it remote from high-flown rhetoric, and it has a catch-as-catch-can charm derived from its stunning… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
One can find in the Yiddish tongue and in the Yiddish spirit expressions of pious joy, lust for life, longing for the… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“It’s Yiddish. Like…Ikh hob dikh lib.” Evie narrowed her eyes in suspicion. “What does that mean?” Sam smiled. “Maybe one day I’ll… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. He's a… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Not now, for the last three thousand years, Hebrew has been penetrated and fertilized by ancient Semitic languages - by Aramaic, by… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
I know very little about my great grandparents, who came through Ellis Island in the early twentieth century, settled in Baltimore, and… — Claire Saffitz Copy Share Image
In another project I worked on just a few years ago, a staging of Peter and the Wolf, which I translated into… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Yiddish, the language which will ever bear witness to the violence and murder inflicted on us, bear the marks of our expulsions… — I. L. Peretz Copy Share Image
On a crowded bus in Israel, a mother was speaking to her son in Yiddish. An Israeli woman reprimanded her. "You should… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
There's an expression in Yiddish, which is "der gelernte naar" - a "learned fool." You can know a great deal, you can… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
In Yiddish, we say, 'Nisht ahin un nisht aher.' It's neither here, it's neither there. I get more nerves than on anything… — Jeffrey Tambor Copy Share Image
English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
“I don't care if you care, I retorted. But in my religion, we're taught to admit our mistakes and to apologize for… — Amy Fellner Dominy Copy Share Image
There are nineteen words in Yiddish that convey gradations of disparagement, from a mild, fluttery helplessness to a state of downright, irreconcilable… — S. J. Perelman Copy Share Image
Well, you have children so you know: little children little troubles, big children, big troubles - it's a saying in Yiddish. Maybe… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Donald Trump did his usual softball interview on "Fox News" where the interviewer agreed with Trump that using that Yiddish vulgarity is… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
“Grinning, he grabbed his fisherman’s cap and coat. “I love you,” he whispered quietly. “Ikh hob dikh lib.” He kissed Evie’s head.… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
When I was a little boy, I thought when I grew up I would talk Yiddish. I thought little kids talked English,… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
The Yiddish mentality is not haughty. It does not take victory for granted. It does not demand and command but it muddles… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
My father was Mickey Katz, who worked with Spike Jones and then went on to improvise some successful Yiddish parodies, some of… — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
When my father came out on stage wearing a big cowboy hat and a shirt lettered 'Bar Mitzvah Ranch' to sing 'Home… — Joel Grey Copy Share Image
They always threw their arms around and hugged me while crying our Yiddish endearments. Yet none of them believed in God. They… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
