Yiddish Quotes: top 37 famous quotes about Yiddish

Yiddish Quotes & Sayings

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Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever — Howard Fast

It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor. — Jerry Leiber

He was distressed to learn that the Pottery Barn Kids gift registry did not extend to children's books in Italian or Yiddish. — Sylvain Reynard

Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater. — Mandy Patinkin

If I do have some success, I'd like to enjoy it, for heaven's sake! What is the point of having it otherwise? — Leontyne Price

My dad knows every single accent from being an old Yiddish grandpa to being Indian or Jamaican. It was very cool to grow up with that. — Ashley Bell

To me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

His eyes reflected a softness I had already forgotten in America. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Singer always wrote in Yiddish. He was so unsure of his English at the beginning that he was easy to edit and he learned fast. — Robert Giroux

Romanian-Yiddish cooking has killed more Jews than Hitler — Zero Mostel

It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

I tried to stay in the clear parts of the road, avoiding horse dung. Perhaps going barefoot had not been the wisest choice. — Elizabeth Vaughan

I abandoned my second novel completely. Writing 'Kavalier & Clay,' I had several moments of utter collapse. Same with 'The Yiddish Policemen's Union.' — Michael Chabon

A wise man hears one word and understands two. — Anonymous

Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages. — Benjamin Whorf

The tongue-in-cheek Yiddish-English "translation" for R.S.V.P. is "Remember to Send Vedding Presents. — Anita Diamant

If you want your dreams to come true, don't oversleep. — Nicky Gumbel

Yiddish is a cheerful language of not so happy people. — Boris Zubry

True poverty does not come from God. — Lyndon B. Johnson

The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits. — Mandy Patinkin

Where do the wheels of history lead? How can you be so sure that the wheels of history won't get bogged down in blood and marrow again? — Isaac Bashevis Singer

I'm done. I don't need anything more out of life. I have you, and that's enough. — Alessandra Torre

A poem is a window that hangs between two or more human beings who otherwise live in darkened rooms. — Stephen Dobyns

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

God made man because He loves stories — Yiddish Proverb

There is a Yiddish saying: If I am going to be forced to eat pork, it better be of the best kind. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Becky, are you studying conversational Yiddish? — Shannon Hale

I opened two gifts this morning. They were my eyes. — Zig Ziglar

If the rich could hire other people to die for them, the poor could make a wonderful living. — Yiddish Proverb

Bringing you 'raisins and almonds' and words (from a Yiddish lullaby — Rona Simmons

Submission reaches the end of its tether when it becomes destructive. — Richard J. Foster

I heard Yiddish when my father's family came to the house, which was as seldom as my mother could arrange it. — Joseph H. Greenberg

I'm Italian, but some people think I'm Jewish because I work the Yiddish. I also work the Italian, by the way. — Joy Behar

I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive. — Theodore Bikel

A soldier who serves an emperor has to have a uniform, and this also applies to a soldier who serves the Almighty. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

Eviction," Frieda said. "You can't pay, you can't stay." She said in Yiddish, "Es iz shver tzu makhen a leben." It's hard to make a living. — Amy Bloom

Writing about art is only useful when it leads to the experience of art. — Walter Darby Bannard