Chance Quote by Immanuel Velikovsky

My parents were extremely liberal. They didn't believe in being Catholic or Protestant, and that was a big deal at the time.

— Jonathan Anderson

One thing I will say about my father is that he was very much out in the forefront talking about his beliefs about being…

— Shannon Lee

Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of the socialist party. But…

— Leon Askin

My mother, whose family was heavily rabbinic, said she wanted me to continue the family tradition in the rabbinate. My father said he wanted…

— Norman Lamm

My father was very outwardly religious.

— John McGahern

Again, I was influenced by my father, who was very much an atheist and took pride in combating the traditional or orthodox forms of…

— Robert Jay Lifton

My father's religious life was not Biblically centered. He was a saintly man, whom I could never emulate, so I went into scholarship rather…

— Frank Moore Cross

My mother's father was Jewish, so she was very conservative. She liked little, pretty music-orchestral-type things.

— Andrae Crouch

I grew up in an Orthodox family, as I grew older, I became Conservative and that's how it ended up. But I've developed that…

— Don Rickles

As an adult, I've always found the stereotype that Jews are liberal a curious one; my parents' circle was predominantly conservative, not just on…

— Rick Perlstein

“There is also the wider fact that politics more generally operates for some people as a secular religion—especially politics dictated by a worldview professing…

— Mary Eberstadt

I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.

— Dar Williams