Jewish Quotes · Page 6

The Jewish community has always taken care of its own.

— Lee Whitnum

I always loved performing, but my parents were very practical, middle-class Jewish people.

— Alex Borstein

My wife is Jewish, and therefore, it's my children's birthright to be Jewish.

— Michael J. Fox

In America, I've been told so many times that I look 'too Jewish' that I stopped counting.

— Judy Gold

I went to an Orthodox Jewish children's home that became an orphanage.

— Ruth Westheimer

Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt.

— Gail Parent

I never thought I'd play an orthodox Jewish man.

— Ato Essandoh

I am Jewish. My real name is Chris Tuckenberg. A lot of people don't know about that.

— Chris Tucker

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

— Natasha Lyonne

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

Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It…

— Tony Judt

I love being Jewish; I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these…

— Lauren Bacall

It makes me furious to hear haters of all skin colors - especially Christian, Jewish, and Muslim fundamentalists - deride other people…

— Rita Dove

When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.

— Yehuda Berg

I mean, I talk about being Jewish a lot. It's funny because I do think of myself as Jewish ethnically, but I'm…

— Sarah Silverman

I'm more Jewish than you think I am...I read the part of the Bible that said the Jews are God's chosen people.

— Rick Perry

If I had been prime minister, I would have offered apologies to the Dutch Jewish community without hesitation. This would refer both…

— Els Borst

I believe the Palestinians have never indicated a willingness to meet our minimum requirements, which are recognition of Israel's permanence and legitimacy…

— Michael Oren

Look. I have always rejected the argument that members of Congress cast their vote because they're Jewish or not Jewish. I didn't…

— Steve Israel

When you're 5 ft. 5 in., have a round Jewish face and wear glasses and refuse to wear contacts, you're going to…

— Rick Moranis

Comedy is still alive, and there are still funny people. Jews are still overrepresented in comedy and psychiatry and underrepresented in the…

— Robert Klein

“Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which - grounded as it was in the Quranic injunction, "Let there…

— Huston Smith

“When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

“I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the…

— Thomas Paine

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

— Jewish Proverb

Even though I'm not Jewish...Israel is one of the few causes I feel good about supporting.

— Ray Charles

My greatest inspiration is my Chinese and Jewish heritage and my travels.

— Molly Yeh

It was a grave mistake to dismantle the Jewish communities in Sinai.

— Ariel Sharon

God, I know we are your chosen people, but couldn't you choose somebody else for a change?

— Shalom Aleichem

I never claimed to be Jewish. I said I was 'Jew-ish.'

— George Santos

People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz

— Nathan Lane

Laughing has always seemed to me to be more Jewish than praying.

— Sherwin Wine

“If the future of the free world depends on me, please accept my apology in advance”

— R.S. Gompertz

“Jenny held her breath wondering whether her matzo would pass muster.”

— Adam Yamey

The age of hairsplitting Jewish intellectualism is dead... The past lies in flames.

— Joseph Goebbels

These three are the marks of a Jew; a tender heart, self-respect, and charity.

— Hebrew Proverb

While I am alive, not a hair on Jewish heads will be touched.

— Habib Bourguiba

There are three things Jewish people worship-God, Chinese food and wall-to-wall carpeting.

— Woody Allen

Silence, this will surprise you not, isn't really a Jewish concept.

— Simon Schama

I grew up looking to all those Jewish athletes for inspiration.

— Max Aaron