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