Quotes About Heritage

Us Jews are nomadic people.

It's interesting when you're part of a group - the Jews, to be exact - that the world has had such problems with.

The Jews know who they are as a people. The Christians have not come together as a people yet.

Jews have been in Egypt since Biblical times, and Alexandria had once been, at least partially, a Jewish city.

Jews have been living in Jerusalem way before British people were living in London.

The mandate we have as Jews is for the story of the Exodus from Egypt to be retold every generation.

My Kashubian family, like the Jews, are people who were born and live in border areas and were suspected by the Nazis and by the Communists of being disloyal.

There's always hope. You can lose everything else in the world, but Jews never lose hope.

I am extremely respectful of the Jewish community. You know, I am Christian. I think of Jews as my older brothers. I mean, there wouldn't be Christianity without the Jewish religion. There is a direct connection between the two of them.

Historically, Jews only accept converts rather than actively seeking them.

In terms of defending Jews, I'm a Jew.

For me, Jews and football go together like a horse and carriage.

Over the course of history, many Jews have ultimately embraced Christianity - some forcibly, some in order to advance in non-Jewish society, some out of wholehearted belief.

My particular pain is that the world of Jewishness that I identify with - the extremely assimilated, educated European and Russian Jews in the 19th and 20th centuries - is lost, and is not mourned enough.

Sephardic Jews were always known as good cooks.

My family were Conservative Jews. My parents were both born in this country, but my father grew up on the Lower East Side, and my mother was born and raised in Harlem when there was a large Jewish 'colony' there. Eventually, they moved to Jersey City to get away from New York.

The Jews are an artistic people. It's clear from the music, the actors, the writers. They are just artists. In the early part of the 20th century, when they first came over, they had no money, but they still went to theater. The theater and education were the two biggest things in their lives.

There is constant talk about the intermarriage crisis: who is a Jew and how we define a Jew. That doesn't go over well with young Jews trying to figure out whether they want to be a part of this thing or not.

It doesn't matter if someone is your fourth cousin once removed, he is Cousin Jimmy and called that always.

Curtis Axel isn't Joe Hennig. That's who he should've been from day one, there are guys that have a legacy in this business. All that they would've had to do to help him from day one was let him be Joe Hennig.

But, I enjoy music from lots of people. And you also have to also remember that I grew up in a household where people like Fats Domino, Little Richard, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Earl Scruggs, and so many others were at mama's house. So, I heard everything growing up.

Jack Johnson was the first black heavyweight champion, so I took part of his name. I admired Rocky Marciano, so I took part of his name.

For decades, Indians have immigrated to the United States, joined our communities, and raised their families while maintaining their cultural heritage.

The old joke in my family is that the last person who isn't from New York was coming from Russia.