Family Quote by Norman Lamm

I wanted to be a soccer player. And then I wanted to be a rabbi.

— Jake Epstein

The level of study that I was at, I was probably only about two or three years away from being ordained as a rabbi,…

— David Draiman

[My mother] wanted to go as deep as possible into the world of religion. And that took her into Judaism.

— Trevor Noah

I was raised Catholic primarily by my mom's side of the family. But at 18, I found out there was an adoption in the…

— Jinkx Monsoon

I was raised into the Romanian Orthodox culture by my parents, and most notably my mother, who is a profoundly religious and spiritual woman.

— Dominique Moceanu

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 felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a…

— Immanuel Velikovsky

My mother converted, my mom converted to Judaism.

— Trevor Noah

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

My mother wanted me to be a professor, because I have several people in my family who are professors at university,

— Jose Manuel Barroso

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 mom is Episcopalian; my dad is ancestrally Jewish but personally atheist. After their divorce, however, my dad married a Jewish spiritual director, and…

— Chloe Benjamin