Yiddish Quotes

19 quotes by 17 authors

I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive. — Theodore Bikel
There is a quiet humor in Yiddish and a gratitude for every day of life, every crumb of success, each encounter of love... In a… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and still they kept… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core… — Roy Blount, Jr.
Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever — Howard Fast
Yiddish has a down-to-earth quality that makes it remote from high-flown rhetoric, and it has a catch-as-catch-can charm derived from its stunning variety-of syntax, spelling,… — Israel Shenker
I'm Italian, but some people think I'm Jewish because I work the Yiddish. I also work the Italian, by the way. — Joy Behar
I heard Yiddish when my father's family came to the house, which was as seldom as my mother could arrange it. — Joseph H. Greenberg
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 a… — Stephen Greenblatt
The prejudice is still there, but it's breaking down. You have writers like Michael Chabon and The Yiddish Policemen's Union. He's a writer who's determined… — George R. R. Martin
Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish. — Mike Myers
Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater. — Mandy Patinkin
I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes… — Carlos Santana
They always threw their arms around and hugged me while crying our Yiddish endearments. Yet none of them believed in God. They believed in social… — Anne Lamott
My dad knows every single accent from being an old Yiddish grandpa to being Indian or Jamaican. It was very cool to grow up with… — Ashley Bell
The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits. — Mandy Patinkin
Isaac Singer always wrote in Yiddish. He was so unsure of his English at the beginning that he was easy to edit and he learned… — Robert Giroux
The classic formula for success is: Dress British, Think Yiddish — Proverb
I love the Jews. 1. Yiddish is awesome. 2. Ive never met one who pushed their religion on me. — Philip DeFranco

Who Wrote These Yiddish Quotes

17 authors contributed a total of 19 Yiddish Quotes as follows: