524 Jewish Quotes for You to Enjoy

December used to be very difficult for me. For many years, I fought the transition to the new year, was generally exhausted at the end of the year, and just wanted to hide. I described myself as a 'cranky Jewish kid who felt left out by Christmas.' Brad Feld

Christmas Myself Me Hide Exhausted Year Difficult Kid Out Generally New Felt Years Left End Very December New Year Just Cranky Wanted Transition Used Who Many Fought Jewish

I was a 6-foot-tall 13-year-old who couldn't play basketball. I moved around all the time as a kid, and at each new school, the coach would say, 'He's the great white hope' - but I couldn't play ball. So my thing was jokes and characters and making fun of myself and being the 6-foot-9 Jewish guy. That was my way into show business. Brad Garrett

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When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got from our lives the better our lives would get, I thought, because persecution had been such a burden to Jewish families for generations. Bruce Feiler

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When AIDS hit, lots of people banded together to take care of each other and do what the government wasn't doing. When you grow up Jewish, as I have, you learn that everybody hates you, no one's going to help you, and you have to take care of yourself. That's a great maxim to the gay community, and we took it to heart; we took care of our own. Bruce Vilanch

Government Great Gay You Together Heart Yourself People Care Own Community Other Everybody AIDS Gay Community Took Our Hates Take Take Care Learn Doing Lots Up Hit Maxim Going Help Each Grow Grow Up Jewish

I need to see a woman president in my lifetime. Or the first Jewish president. Carl Reiner

Woman First President See Lifetime Woman President Need Jewish

I cried to my mother that I wanted to go to Hebrew school; I wanted Jewish friends. But when my mother took me, the kids there all knew each other, and somehow I was even more of an outcast. Caroline Leavitt

Me School Mother Other Cried Took Kids Outcast Somehow More Knew Go Friends Wanted Hebrew Even Each Jewish

I don't think Steve Scalise has a racist bone in his body. Steve and I have worked on issues that benefit poor people, black people, white people, Jewish people. I know his character. Cedric Richmond

Character People Black White Think Bone Jewish People Benefit Know Steve Issues His Poor Poor People Worked Body Jewish

I'm Jewish. That's all. So I am in exile all the time. Wherever we go, we are in exile. Even in Israel, we are in exile. Chantal Akerman

Time Am Israel Go Exile Wherever Even Jewish

I am a woman, and I am Jewish; I'm a film-maker, and I'm a writer, so you cannot just put me in one box. Chantal Akerman

Me You Woman Writer Put Box Am Just Cannot Jewish

The Jewish people can do a lot of good if we stay united and strong - Israel and the Diaspora working together. If we don't, I always worry about the continuation of the Jewish people in Israel and abroad. Charles Bronfman

Good Working Together Together People Strong Jewish People Worry Stay About Abroad Always Israel Continuation Lot Working United Jewish

Across all religions in the United States, people 18-30 are more spiritual than before, but they don't like organized religion. What sets Birthright apart is that no one's hitting on you to be Jewish in any particular way, and you can define Jewish any way you want. Charles Bronfman

Religion Spiritual You People Before Sets Birthright Way Define States All Religions Religions More Particular Like Particular Way Than Hitting Any Want Apart Across Organized Organized Religion United United States Jewish

Gold is a great thing to sew into your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939, but I think civilized people don't buy gold, they invest in productive businesses. Charlie Munger

Buy Great Family You People Think Sew Civilized Invest Great Thing Gold Vienna Your Productive Businesses Garments Thing Jewish

My mom is Episcopalian; my dad is ancestrally Jewish but personally atheist. After their divorce, however, my dad married a Jewish spiritual director, and I became fascinated by the traditions she brought into our lives. Chloe Benjamin

I eat meat daily. I'm not Jewish. I'm not Arabic. What's the kind of person that doesn't eat meat? That's right - I'm not a vegetarian. Chuck Berry

Daily Kind Arabic Eat Vegetarian Person Meat Right Jewish

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast. Colin Firth

Humor Thought East East Coast Exceptions Failing Always Italian Very Irish American Irony Lack Biggest Coast Naturally Serious Jewish

Nobody cares if you're black, white, straight, gay, Christian, Jewish, whatever it may be. When you step on that field, you're a member, in my case, the 49ers. That's your job, your occupation. Colin Kaepernick

Gay You Job Black Nobody Cares Whatever Field White Christian Cares Member Case Step Nobody Occupation May Straight Your Jewish

All the other members of the U.N. were admitted, at the outset or subsequently, but Israel was created by the U.N. as a Jewish state, on the motion of Stalin's ambassador, seconded by President Truman's. Conrad Black

Other Jewish State President State Members Admitted Outset Motion Israel Were Truman Ambassador Subsequently Stalin Created Jewish

The novel at its nineteenth-century pinnacle was a Judaized novel: George Eliot and Dickens and Tolstoy were all touched by the Jewish covenant: they wrote of conduct and of the consequences of conduct: they were concerned with a society of will and commandment. Cynthia Ozick

Will Society Consequences Touched Wrote Concerned Covenant George Were Commandment Pinnacle Dickens Conduct Novel Tolstoy Jewish

I could live on challah bread, the Jewish kosher bread, quite happily. Dan Aykroyd

Live Could Kosher Quite Bread Happily Jewish

I was raised in an orthodox Jewish home where it was expected that, as a woman, I'd marry an investment banker, raise kids in the suburbs and go to temple. I wasn't raised to set the world on fire. Dani Shapiro

Home Woman World Fire Kids Marry Temple Investment Go Expected Banker Where Suburbs Orthodox Raise Raised Set Jewish

Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict. Daniel Barenboim

Great Conflict Great Deal Intervene East Must Ideals Became Deal Insure Continent Intellectuals Middle Middle East Europe Now Humanism Humanist Jewish

My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World. Daniel Nathans

Though I am not religious in the least, I am very proud to be Jewish. Daniel Radcliffe

Though Religious Proud Am Least Very Jewish

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