Bar mitzvah Quotes

It is a tree of life for those who hold fast to it. -Proverbs 3. 18

— Bible

I was an emcee for bar mitzvahs from age sixteen to twenty-one.

— James Wolk

I didn't have a bar mitzvah, my family aren't practising Jews.

— Tom Rosenthal

I would love to host someone's bar mitzvah. I would love to do that.

— Ilana Glazer

Every bar mitzvah I ever went to was, 'Here comes 'Oh, What a Night.'

— Erich Bergen

My bar mitzvah, I went to my nan's, and she made kugel.

— Paul Rudd

I went to bar mitzvahs as a kid. I had a lot of classmates who are Jewish.

— John David Washington

Man, Dick Dale shreds. He's welcomed to anybody's bar mitzvah.

— John Zorn

I don't dance. I don't like to dance, I don't dance in clubs, bar mitzvahs, weddings, none of that. It's not me.

— Jason Taylor

I started singing weddings and bar mitzvahs at 15, lying about my age. It was a great discipline.

— Idina Menzel

I was the - my trendsetting moment was my bar mitzvah had the first, like, temporary tattoo guy.

— Evan Goldberg

I suppose the nearest equivalent to a bar mitzvah in terms of emotional build-up would probably not even be one's wedding day,…

— Maureen Lipman

I just went to Hebrew school, had a bar mitzvah. No crazy weird Jewish cult.

— Hayden Schlossberg

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

— Jeremy Piven

Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.

— R. L. Stine

If a girl comes to me first for a prom or a bar mitzvah and she likes the way she looks and…

— Betsey Johnson

I struggled with being a Latino growing up in Los Angeles. I felt very American. I still do. I went to 35…

— America Ferrera

There were lots of little boys having their bar mitzvahs all over the world, and they sent me tapes of some of…

— Oprah Winfrey

There was a year straight where every weekend, I went to at least one bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah, and we would…

— Seth Rogen

You can find old Jewish newspapers from Detroit that have my promotional ad in them. It was a totally insane time in…

— James Wolk

When my father came out on stage wearing a big cowboy hat and a shirt lettered 'Bar Mitzvah Ranch' to sing 'Home…

— Joel Grey

What's funny is I probably still have some calligraphy business cards floating out in the world, and I can't wait for someone…

— Meghan Markle

My parents' convictions, when it came to discipline, were not very strong. For my bar mitzvah, I gave out a mix tape…

— Adam Pally

The loss of my father marked my life. I'm 88 years old and I'm still mourning him because it's such a drama…

— Frank Lowy

[I had Bar mitzvah ]it was just me and my mom. And she's celebrating. And she's reading things to me in Hebrew.…

— Trevor Noah

I've studied Kabbalah, as you know, for many years, so there are a lot of things I do that one would associate…

— Madonna Ciccone

I was Jewish, through and through, although in our house that didn't mean a whole lot. We never went to synagogue. I…

— Gilbert Gottfried

I think my first experience of art, or the joy in making art, was playing the horn at some high-school dance or…

— Robert Pinsky

I just enjoyed bar mitzvahs as a kid, and there was this company in the Detroit area where I grew up, and…

— James Wolk

After my bar mitzvah, I started to assimilate, to really not pay attention to my roots. The anti-Semitic experiences of my youth…

— Joel Grey

I was one of those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually…

— Neil Gaiman

I had already been a young singer. And once, as a profession, I was a young singer, what you would call a…

— Charlemagne Palestine

“hegemony of the modern synagogue. These are the events that surround birth, coming of age, marriage (including divorce), and death. Many synagogues…

— Kerry M. Olitzky

“The ceremony was fast so we wouldn't be caught. When it was over, the men all whispered 'Mazel tov' and climbed back…

— Alan Gratz

“Daniel." He looked up. "El-la.I was wondering if you'd catch me." He offered me a cigarette. I gave him a shame-on-you look;he…

— Melissa Jensen

“Gogol flips through the book. A single picture at the front, on smoother paper than the rest of the pages, shows a…

— Anonymous

“Let’s call it the theory of receptivity. It’s the idea, often cited by young people in their case against the relevance of…

— Michelle Orange

“I had survived the work gangs in the ghetto. Baked bread under cover of night. Hidden in a pigeon coop. Had a…

— Alan Gratz

“practice, the synagogue generally limits its services only to members in the area of bat or bar mitzvah. Most life-cycle events (outside…

— Kerry M. Olitzky

I went to Hebrew school but opted out of a bar mitzvah.

— Daveed Diggs