Jewish Quotes · Page 11

Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.

— Jewish Proverb

“Jewish vampires: Crosses & holy water won’t hurt me whatcha gonna try next?”

— Tasha Turner

You can't do more mama than Italian Jewish mama.

— Ginevra Elkann

To call somebody a Jewish composer is obviously redundant.

— Mitch Leigh

People always think I'm Jewish. Actually, I'm a lapsed Catholic.

— Jeffrey C. Hall

Growing up in Beverly Hills, everyone was Jewish, and I always secretly wanted to be.

— Kyle Richards

Im Jewish and Italian, and I lucked out and got the nose of both cultures.

— Chelsea Peretti

I really don't even think of myself as being Jewish except when I'm in Germany.

— Peter Eisenman

I sometimes joke that I'm half Jewish, because I was raised Catholic... and we share 'the guilt.'

— John Densmore

Historically, the National Religious Party, which my party - Jewish Home - is built upon, has aligned itself in consecutive Israeli governments…

— Naftali Bennett

If you think about it, there aren't that many women who are in their 40s, who are Jewish and funny and stage-worthy.

— Amanda Peet

It seemed ironic that Lowell Levine and I, who were both Jewish, were going over to identify the remains of a man…

— Michael Baden

President Obama himself has attributed the legitimacy of the Jewish State not to its historic identity as Jewish territory, but to the…

— Ben Shapiro

Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning.

— Elie Wiesel

I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father…

— Dani Shapiro

I may be a Jewish scientist, but I would be tickled silly if one day I were reincarnated as a Baptist preacher.

— Brian Greene

“Grandpa Sereno: "There is nothing as dangerous as fear, fear of people who are different than you. Fear is the REAL danger…

— Rabbi Sipporah Joseph

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

“A Jew ain't only a religion, and it ain't a race. It isn't an ethnicity, and you aren't disqualified if you're good…

— Alex Kudera

It is not wealth, it is not station, it is not social standing and ambition which can make us worthy of the…

— Louis D. Brandeis

My mom is a white Jewish lady, and my dad is black. The cultures never seemed separate - I had a lot…

— Daveed Diggs

The most gloomy prognosis about Jewish life is that it will disappear between the two extremes of ultra-Orthodoxy on the one hand…

— Simon Schama

I may discuss love, and I don't mind if two men fall in love, fine. Two women, fine. But I flinch when…

— Garry Shandling

I wouldn't trade anything for family time. To me, it is more important than everything else, and I have a very deep-rooted…

— Felicity Kendal

Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

Talk is cheap, it's like ya'll grew up in a Jewish home!

— J Cole

We need to do everything possible to save the Jewish state. We don't have another Jewish state.

— Naftali Bennett

My grandmother was a Jewish juggler: she used to worry about six things at once.

— Richard Lewis

This night is different from all other nights because we actually acknowledge we're Jewish.

— Anonymous

No one will frighten the large and free Jewish community of the United States.

— Menachem Begin

I am not Jewish, but I think that America invented nothing so fine as deli food.

— Mike Newell

Politics in America has become a Jewish profession, just like arts and the law...

— Ira Forman

A nice Jewish man rising from the dead seems less miraculous than finding one I can date.

— Anonymous

“Jewish food is a matter of text expressed on the table.”

— Michael W. Twitty

We cannot keep the Jewish state without being a democratic state.

— Reuven Rivlin

“The Jewish Question? Thats a hell of a thing to ask!”

— Adolf Hitler

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.

— Jewish Proverb

I'm Jewish, so it's like I'm not totally white. I'm, like, gray.

— Brett Gelman

I'd had a vaguely Jewish upbringing, but no deep connection to faith.

— Andrew Solomon

We can establish a Jewish and democratic state, but the burden of proof is on us.

— Reuven Rivlin