About Quote by Jacob Epstein

I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows…

— Dani Shapiro

They were two very religious people. My father was a foundry worker and was a daily Mass attender, as was my mother.

— Martin McGuinness

Before I became an orphan of the Holocaust my early family life was stable. I grew up as a German Jew in Frankfurt, and…

— Ruth Westheimer

“At the heart of early Christian worship was table fellowship. Throughout the first three centuries Christian communities gathered once a week for a meal.…

— Alan Kreider

My parents were terrific - mother was a church organist and my father was probably the most respected person in our church outside of…

— Jane Pauley

My father belonged to a Jewish social club.

— Maurice Sendak

Simon Peter, who embarrassed the other disciples at the Last Supper by asking for seconds. Never got a dinner!

— Red Buttons

My grandfather was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who lived in Northern Ireland and apparently when he sang in the synagogue he made everyone cry.

— Jessie Ware

“...when a society or a civilization perishes, one condition may always be found. They forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what…

— Carl Sandburg

Jews who long have drifted from the faith of their fathers... are stirred in their inmost parts when the old, familiar Passover sounds chance…

— Heinrich Heine

Working- and Middle-class families sat down at the dinner table every night - the shared meal was the touchstone of good manners. Indeed, that…

— Larry McMurtry

“Moreover, these town toasts ate magnificently, and boasted of the quality of the meals their admirers provided for them. It was the age not…

— A.J. Liebling