Yiddish Quotes

Yiddish Quote of the day

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

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.

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

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

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

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

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.

Donald Trump did his usual softball interview on "Fox News" where the interviewer agreed with Trump that using that Yiddish vulgarity is going to be OK for him.

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

One can find in the Yiddish tongue and in the Yiddish spirit expressions of pious joy, lust for life, longing for the Messiah, patience and deep appreciation of human individuality.

Romanian-Yiddish cooking has killed more Jews than Hitler

True poverty does not come from God.

Well, you have children so you know: little children little troubles, big children, big troubles - it's a saying in Yiddish. Maybe the Chinese said it too.

It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature.

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

At age 11, I went to a Jewish school. I speak Yiddish. I'm Church of England Protestant. My father was Catholic, and my mother was Protestant. My wife is a Muslim.

There's an expression in Yiddish, which is "der gelernte naar" - a "learned fool." You can know a great deal, you can have a Ph.D., and you can still be a total idiot.

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

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 gossip and insult, you can't beat Yiddish.

Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever

I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent.

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?

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