Bar mitzvah Quotes · Page 2

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

— John David Washington

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

— Paul Rudd

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

— John Zorn

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

— Erich Bergen

As an olive tree does not lose its foliage in summer or winter, so Israel will never be lost, here or hereafter.

— Joshua B Levi Talmudl Menachot

Steven Spielberg's mother, who said to E.T., I don't care where you're from, you're here and you're gonna get bar mitzvahed! Never…

— Red Buttons

Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry. (Psalms 88:2)

— Bible

When the opportunity presented itself, I had never been bar mitzvahed. I wasn't going to pass it up.

— Carlos Lopez-Cantera

Ironically, my rabbi was a bar mitzvah Nazi. So I got bar mitzvahed. And though I didn't want to, the theme of…

— Billy Eichner

I used to limp around my neighborhood imitating him. I did my Bar Mitzvah with an Oklahoma drawl.

— Billy Crystal

I would see musicians performing at weddings and bar mitzvahs, and I knew that at the very worst I could do that.

— Scott Storch

I met Evan Goldberg at bar-mitzvah class. It was called tallis and tefillin.

— Seth Rogen

My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly…

— Nat Hentoff

That room was not available, and the only other room had been booked for a Jewish bar mitzvah. I called the father…

— Lew Wasserman

I actually got thrown into my Bar Mitzvah because my teacher, my Cantor, did not tell me that they would all say…

— Jeffrey Tambor

I never really liked "cool" books. I plowed through as much Borges and Joyce as possible, read the first half of V.…

— Simon Rich

I had been coming to New York, pretty much once a month, to dance on Broadway. I was offered a huge Broadway…

— Sami Gayle

I fought tooth and nail: I didn't want to learn Hebrew. My Bar Mitzvah came around, and I didn't want to read…

— Jesse Andrews

I knew I had a remarkable voice, but I was embarrassed because it was so high. But when I sang at my…

— Neil Sedaka

At some point in your life, if you live in Venezuela, you come across or own a cuatro. Either at school, either…

— Devendra Banhart

I bailed on Hebrew school early on. So I kind of memorized my Bar Mitzvah piece and then the day before I…

— Paul Rudd

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

Before I published my first book, I worked for a while as a documentary and wedding/bar mitzvah videographer, and a part of…

— Stefan Merrill Block

I was 13 or 14 and I met Donald Trump at a bar mitzvah of a good friend of ours, who's friends…

— Jason Spezza

I'm not a lawyer I'm a kind of mouthpiece/activist type, though occasionally they shave me and stuff me into my Bar Mitzvah…

— Cory Doctorow

Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end…

— Sara Nelson

When 1:45 came, half the class left, and Danny Hupfer whispered, "If she gives you a cream puff after we leave, I'm…

— Gary D. Schmidt

[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

He shall be like a tree planted by waters sending forth its roots by a stream. -Jeremiah 17. 8

— Bible

Personally, I would miss a wedding. I would miss childbirth. I would miss a bar mitzvah just to see me talk at…

— Maxwell Jacob Friedman

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

— R. L. Stine

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

— Jeremy Piven

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

— Hayden Schlossberg

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

— Evan Goldberg

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

— Idina Menzel

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 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 found a fruitful world, because my ancestors planted it for me. Likewise I am planting for my children. -Talmud, Taanit 23a

— Bible

“I know I am a child because I have been to more bar mitzvahs than funerals.”

— Leigh Stein

I'm a good Jewish boy from Edison, New Jersey, so I went and saw 'Fiddler on the Roof' because you have to:…

— David Bryan