#jew

Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize. ↗

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

#jewel #joy #prize #striving #toy

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#diamond #dust #heaven #jewels

My grandfather was Catholic; my grandmother, Jewish. Crossing over from Bavaria, as immigrants to the United States, the ship started to sink. My grandmother jumped overboard. My grandfather followed, to save this girl he had never met. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#crossing #followed #girl #grandfather #grandmother

It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations. ↗

— Maurice Chevalier

#furs #jewels #men #quotations #same

Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age. ↗

— Joel Coen

#burden #driving #education #father #jew

I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard to parse how growing up in a Jewish community in Minnesota really affected it. ↗

— Joel Coen

#background #community #everything #growing #growing up

Jews have a tendency to become comedians. ↗

— Sacha Baron Cohen

#comedians #jews #tendency

I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish. ↗

— Billy Crystal

#black #comfortable #i #jewish #old

I am a peace supporting Jew. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#i #i am #jew #peace #supporting

My six handbooks to Jewish life and lifecycle events mostly followed the trajectory of my adult Jewish life. ↗

— Anita Diament

#events #followed #jewish #life #mostly