Jewish Quotes · Page 8

Reggae music isn't Jewish, but a lot of the ideas are.

— Matisyahu

It took me many years to understand that my identity is more Israeli than Jewish.

— Mili Avital

I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.

— Billy Crystal

We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us.

— Gary Ackerman

I hardly exaggerate. Jewish life consists of two elements: Extracting money and protesting.

— Nahum Goldmann

My dad was old school Jewish. Not do your taxes Jewish - steal your car Jewish.

— Dov Davidoff

I am not an anti-Semite! I have a great respect for the Jewish people.

— David Icke

Let's face it: The Jewish community is the most active political community in American society.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

The greatest Jewish tradition is to laugh. The cornerstone of Jewish survival has always been to find humor in life and in…

— Jerry Seinfeld

I cried to my mother that I wanted to go to Hebrew school; I wanted Jewish friends. But when my mother took…

— Caroline Leavitt

The funny thing is that I write and I act a lot about being Jewish, but I don't really think about it…

— Liev Schreiber

I'm Jewish, I can say it. We're storytellers. We were the moneylenders... Therefore we tell great tales to get what we need.…

— Patti Stanger

I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she…

— Natasha Lyonne

A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return.

— Jewish Proverb

In the Bronx, you have the southern Italians; in Queens, the Greeks, Koreans and Chinese; in Brooklyn, the Jewish community; and in…

— Daniel Boulud

The notion of someone who is fitting in or trying to become part of a larger family... It's hard to separate that…

— Marc Platt

Our kids are not Jewish, and they're not Catholic. They're not Episcopalian. They're not Buddhist. They're not anything. We do all the…

— Rhea Perlman

All modern secularity requires is that our public norms and the arguments for them not presuppose common acceptance of Jewish or Christian…

— David Novak

“I want to see a flowering of Arab and Jewish cultures in a country without racism or anti-Semitism, without rich or poor…

— Aurora Levins Morales

My mother smokes me out. We'll get these long periods of me thinking I'm too busy to call her up or e-mail…

— Ronnie Dunn

I grew up pretty secular. I went to public school, and all the Jews that I knew, none of them were religious.…

— Matisyahu

“[On famous Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr] [Niels] Bohr's sort of humor, use of parables and stories, tolerance, dependence on family, feelings of…

— Finn Aaserud

Which I think is great. I don't think there's nothing wrong with it. If you look in most professional sports, they're run…

— Michael Ray

To be a Jew, essentially and not just accidentally, is to regard the Jewish people as one's sole primal community. Election by…

— David Novak

Though I am not religious in the least, I am very proud to be Jewish.

— Daniel Radcliffe

Since my daughter is only half-Jewish, could she go in the water up to her knees?

— Groucho Marx

Even a secret agent can't lie to a Jewish mother.

— Peter Malkin

I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.

— Kenneth Lonergan

It's certainly true that most of my close friends are Jewish.

— Vera Rubin

I find it very hard to write about Jewish history.

— Simon Schama

Jewish skullcaps are obviously not a problem in our country.

— Marine Le Pen

Being half Jewish, we grew up with Christmas trees but had Jewish ornaments.

— Gina Rodriguez

The disappearance of the Jewish state will not mean the disappearance of anti-Semitism.

— Jack Schwartz

My mother is Jewish. We celebrated all the Jewish holidays at home.

— Lucy DeVito

I'm Russian Jewish. And I had to grow up really quickly.

— Margarita Levieva

“Jewish vampires: Garlic? As a weapon? No its a spice silly human”

— Tasha Turner

I have worked hard to build relationships between Jewish people and black people.

— Jesse Jackson

“If I were in his(Prophet Muhammad) presence, I would wash his feet.”

— Hercules

“A Jewish woman in exile in the 1930s is an antihero.”

— Núria Añó

If we members of the Jewish community don't support the Jewish organizations, nobody else will.

— Marc Platt