Short Jewish Quotes

#1. ...the history of the Broadway musical is the history of short Jewish men yelling at each other.

Jack Viertel

#2. But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in Church and State.

Thomas Jefferson

#3. I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal.

Paul Wellstone

#4. Any work of art makes one very simple demand on anyone who genuinely wants to get in touch with it. And that is to stop. You've got to stop what you're doing, what you're thinking, and what you're expecting and just be there for the poem for however long it takes.

W.S. Merwin

#5. People do think I'm Jewish. But we're Irish Catholic. My father had a brogue.

Martin Short

#6. Ill give you an idea of how Jewish Mel Brooks is: Thats a nose job.

Martin Short

#7. From Jewish terrorism against Arabs it is a short step to Jewish terrorism against Jews.

David Ben-Gurion

#8. Books don't repeat the same words over and over. The Gulliver's Travels whose whimsey amused you at twelve is not the Gulliver's Travels whose acid engaged you at thirty.

James K. Morrow

#9. I live in rural New Hampshire, and we are, frankly, short on people who are black, gay, Jewish, and Hispanic. In fact, we're short on people. My town has a population of 301.

P. J. O'Rourke

#10. Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don't know.

Richard Gere

#11. Whether you're Huguenot or Catholic or Jewish or gypsy or short or have dark skin- or blue skin. Everyone is different. Each person has his or her own soul and is master of his or her own destiny.

Liz Braswell

#12. You would not have known,' Baynes said, 'because I do not in any physical way appear Jewish; I have had my nose altered, my large greasy pores made smaller, my skin chemically lightened, the shape of my skull changed. In short, physically I cannot be detected. ...

Philip K. Dick

#13. The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.

Bruce Lee

#14. You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

Toni Morrison

#15. Even if the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, keep to your own side; it's where you belong. There you can plant your own grass and tend to it.

Richelle E. Goodrich