Communication Quote by Shira Haas

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

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

I never learned to speak Yiddish, ever.

— Joel Grey

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,…

— Israel Shenker

Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever

— Howard Fast

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

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.

— Mike Myers

On a crowded bus in Israel, a mother was speaking to her son in Yiddish. An Israeli woman reprimanded her. "You should be speaking…

— Kirk Douglas

I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.

— Mark Twain

If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!

— Marisol Nichols

“The tongue-in-cheek Yiddish-English “translation” for R.S.V.P. is “Remember to Send Vedding Presents.”

— Anita Diamant

I love the Jews. 1. Yiddish is awesome. 2. Ive never met one who pushed their religion on me.

— Philip DeFranco