Family Quote by Anonymous

The Yiddish language is so rich and unusual that I've always been hooked on its sounds, although I don't speak it.

— Joel Grey

I never learned to speak Yiddish, ever.

— Joel Grey

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell…

— Stephen Greenblatt

Yiddish is the voice of exile, the tongue of ghettos, but I'll shed a tear when it joins ancient Greek and dead Latin. For…

— Linda Barnes

To me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

When I was a little boy, I thought when I grew up I would talk Yiddish. I thought little kids talked English, but when…

— Mel Brooks

If you will tell me to have a conversation in Yiddish, I won't, unfortunately know how to do it. But I will understand a…

— Shira Haas

I know very little about my great grandparents, who came through Ellis Island in the early twentieth century, settled in Baltimore, and spoke only…

— Claire Saffitz

I came from a really traditional home where my dad was working, and my mom was a housewife.

— Greta Lee

My father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that tradition.

— Gloria Steinem

Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever

— Howard Fast

I still speak to my parents only in German, and I have endless family over there.

— Peter Hermann