Top 1200 Jewish Culture Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I went to an Orthodox Jewish children's home that became an orphanage.

I'm this little Canadian Jewish girl, and I'm living my dream.

Warhol came from an ordinary family and he had a profound understanding about capitalism and material culture. He was probably one of the few Western artists - or artists from the United States - that could be considered a true product of his time and brought out that kind of spirit of the culture.

I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry.

I grew up in Jerusalem and went to school here. I studied at the Hebrew University - mostly Islam and Arabic: Arab literature, Arab poetry and culture, because I felt like we are living in this region, in the Middle East, and we are not alone: There are nations here whose culture is Arab.

They [the Templars] had read Avicenna, and they were not ignorant, like the Europeans. How could you live alongside a tolerant, mystical, libertine culture for two centuries without succumbing to its allure, particularly when you compared it to Western culture, which was crude, vulgar, barbaric, and Germanic?

Silence, this will surprise you not, isn't really a Jewish concept.

Often culture gets stuck in static, traditional narratives. Contemporary ideas give culture elasticity, flexibility, which is always a breath of fresh air. But these ideas shouldn't only be for people who can afford to go to a museum or a symposium in the "better part of town."

If you want to be Jewish, welcome, but convert via the Halacha.

I've got some Jewish ancestry and I don't like waste.

I believe that the Jewish state will exist forever.

If the time comes when our culture tires of the endless homicidal feuds, despairs of the use of force and war as a means of bringing peace, becomes discontent with the half-lives that its members are living - only then will our culture seriously look for alternatives.

I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.

Jewish Alzheimer's is forgetting everything except a grudge.

Zionism is the most stupendous fallacy in Jewish history

Now, when you look at somebody, it's not simply, 'Are you like me or unlike me? Has your culture produced great artists? What are your rituals?' It's: 'Is your culture safe or not? Will it produce terrorists?'

I think all the history of the Jewish people is about adaptation.

I never thought I'd play an orthodox Jewish man.

To call somebody a Jewish composer is obviously redundant.

There's something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility that we contributed to so much of the world. We lost that mission in the 1980s and 1990s, when we entered a gilded age, and the culture of individualism became a culture of avarice.

The older we get, the more Jewish we become in my family.

My greatest inspiration is my Chinese and Jewish heritage and my travels.

Theres something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility that we contributed to so much of the world. We lost that mission in the 1980s and 1990s, when we entered a gilded age, and the culture of individualism became a culture of avarice.

I'd love to go somewhere warm, somewhere near the beach and somewhere with a cool culture. It could be Hawaii, Cuba, South America - anywhere that has a cool culture and a beautiful climate.

Country town to the city heart, in every corner of the globe you'll find a Chinatown, a Chinese restaurant or an Asian grocer. From this vast and ancient culture, we credit noodles, dumplings, rice, countless spices and cooking techniques to have enriched every culture that they've landed in.

The culture of France is unique because it's a culture that has a high priority on the arts, more than any other place in the world in our time since Greece. So as a practicing artist, if you will, this is home ground. They love us, so music, literature, art continues to be the center.

Jewish and Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem are interlaced one with the other.

They who seek religion for culture's sake are aesthetic, not religious, and will never gain that grace which religion adds to culture, because they never can have the religion.

Wrestling has grown so big... it's almost a culture. And it's a culture of all types of vibes, just like hip-hop has all kinds of vibes and rap has all kinds of vibes.

Working with the Jewish community is essential to me and what I stand for.

When culture is created in boardrooms with a panel of six or seven strategists for the masses to follow, to me that is no different than an aristocracy. It's not created from the people in the middle of the streets, so to speak. It is created from a petri dish for the sake of making money, and it is undermining the longevity of the culture.

I came from a classic, literate, intellectual Jewish family.

For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.

Most people don't seem to know that I am Jewish.

Communism is Judaism. The Jewish Revolution in Russia was in 1918.

The primary task of a Jew in turbulent times is to be Jewish.

Jewish skullcaps are obviously not a problem in our country.

I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor.

The Jewish community has always taken care of its own.

I support Israel to be a Democratic, Jewish and safe country.

Roses are reddish Violets are bluish If it weren't for Christmas We'd all be Jewish.

If you hate the Jewish people, you are not reflecting the teachings of Christ.

It's certainly true that most of my close friends are Jewish.

Each of us has a mission . . . each of us is called to change the world, to work for a culture of life, a culture forged by love and respect for the dignity of each human person.

Our laws are a reflection of our culture. Our culture does not condone the torture of innocent and defenseless creatures. And we as a society believe all God's creatures should be treated humanely.

This is a culture of female display. And the reason it's a culture of female display is that on the Upper East Side women far outnumber men, if you do the sex ratios. I can't say exactly what they are, but you could google it. People have said two to one. So, it's a female display culture because sex ratios are skewed toward men, and they sort of have their choice, even if they're married.... Also, women are economically dependent on men, and so there's that aspect of needing to perform your beauty and your scarcity.

I'm Jewish, so I don't know much about Easter eggs.

I guess you could say I'm kind of Jewish but not really.

There's a lot of anti-Semitism, and it's not just against the Jewish.

We don't want this globalised economic system which does us so much harm. Men and women have to be at the centre (of an economic system) as God wants, not money. The world has become an idolator of this god called money. To defend this economic culture, a throwaway culture has been installed. We throw away grandparents, and we throw away young people. We have to say no to his throwaway culture. We want a just system that helps everyone.

It's some chopped liver. That's Jewish soul food.

I'm an honorary old Jewish lady of the West Village.

It was a grave mistake to dismantle the Jewish communities in Sinai.

You know. I don't think I'm gonna be Jewish for very long.

If you live in New York, even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish

Quite a lot of what we normally think of as human culture doesn't fit some definition. What are the values behind cuisine, which is a form of human culture? Does it have deep values? I don't know - I would say not. But maybe I'm not a foodie.

Scientists are not these guys in lab coats deep in the inner bowels of universities and hospitals with their Bunsen burners. They're the people molding the culture that we live in, the future of our culture, and the technology we rely on every day. These are the rock stars of our time right now.

No one in my family is Jewish; no one was raised as a Jew, me included.

Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? They're worth it.

Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.