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All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please. -- Padma Lakshmi
Mother humor is such a universal theme. I wrote a show called '25 Questions for a Jewish Mother.' I had people coming up to me after the show saying, 'I'm Baptist, and my mother is just like yours.' -- Judy Gold
My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school, So? Did you learn anything today? But not my mother. Izzy, she would say, did you ask a good question today? That difference - asking good questions - made me become a scientist. -- Isidor Isaac Rabi
over protective? a butler in a grade- B movie? someones jewish mother? you got it -- Margaret Weis
My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality. -- Peter Orszag
For a Jewish mother, having a country wage war on your son is the worst. If Kim Jong-un only knew what he was doing to my mother! -- Seth Rogen
You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's still going to expect a passel of grandkids. -- Ayelet Waldman
When you have a Jewish mother who has a very strong Jewish family, it's very ethnic in its practices. Eating brisket, the food and the family and the interconnectedness for better or worse. -- Goldie
I'd work to make it hip again to spend time in our fabled and fabulous land. But with a Puerto Rican father and a Jewish mother, I would probably be better suited as mayor of New York. -- Geraldo Rivera
You know how Van Nuys got its name? Well, one day my little old Jewish mother was visiting me, and I took her to the top of the Hollywood Hills and had her view the valley below just at sunset. Well, mama, what would you call that? And she said, Ver nize. -- Joey Bishop
My mother was a Jewish General Patton. -- Don Rickles
Even a secret agent can't lie to a Jewish mother. -- Peter Malkin
When I tell people I'm an Italian Jew, they're very amused by it. But obviously by blood I'm Jewish, because my mother is. -- Antonio Sabato, Jr.
We had a Jewish school; we had a Jewish club. My father was a main donor. My mother was on the committee of the school. -- Harry Triguboff
My daughter Gabby very kindly once said that she thinks I was a better mother because I was doing a job I loved. I now think guilt is a universal part of being a mother. I used to think it was Jewish-mother guilt but now I think it is working-mother guilt. -- Donna Karan
On my mother's side I'm Polish-Jewish, and on my father's side I'm Scottish puffin. -- Tamsin Greig
I don't consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother. -- Ben Elton
My mother's father was Jewish, so she was very conservative. She liked little, pretty music-orchestral-type things. -- Andrae Crouch
My mother should have been Jewish. She could have taught a class on how to induce guilt. -- Lorna Luft
My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him My mother is British, but she's of French extraction. -- Joan Collins
My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him... My mother is British, but she's of French extraction. -- Joan Collins
My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality. -- Peter Orszag
Cullum' is Scottish, but I'm nowhere near Scottish. My mother is Burmese, and my father is of German, Jewish, English ancestry. -- Jamie Cullum
My father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that tradition. -- Gloria Steinem
I never felt like a good Jew. My mother was not Jewish, and that makes me a non-Jew according to Jewish religious law. -- Stephane Hessel
As scary as it was being raised by one Jewish mother, I have to feel for my kids because they have two Jewish mothers. -- Judy Gold
My mother's side is Italian; my father's side is Jewish. We're the kind of family where every Sunday night we have dinner with all 19 of my cousins. -- Lea Michele
Nothing is sacred. Not even your own mother, not the Jewish martyrs, not even people starving of hunger. Laugh at everything, ferociously, bitterly, to exorcise the old monsters. -- Francois Cavanna
We don't like to say that [my wife was Jewish] because her mother was Jewish, which means she was Jewish. So don't imply that my wife was a shikse. -- Kevin Sessums
My mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicago. She had me going to a Methodist church. -- Wesley Clark
As a matter of fact [my mother] is very happily married. To a very nice southern gentleman named Roanoke - her first non-Jewish husband, as she likes to say. -- Carrie Fisher
My mother's Puerto Rican and my father's Russian-Jewish, so we consider ourselves to be Jewricans or Puertojews. I think Puertojew sounds like a kosher bathroom, so I prefer Jewrican. -- Rachel Ticotin
When you have a Jewish mother who has a very strong Jewish family, it's very ethnic in its practices. Eating brisket, the food and the family and the interconnectedness for better or worse. -- Goldie
So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here. -- Harold Brodkey
I cried to my mother that I wanted to go to Hebrew school; I wanted Jewish friends. But when my mother took me, the kids there all knew each other, and somehow I was even more of an outcast. -- Caroline Leavitt
Growing up in a Jewish matriarchal world inside the patriarchal paradise of Salt Lake City, Utah, gave me increased perspective on gender issues, as it also did my gay brother and my lesbian sister. Our younger sister is the perfect Jewish-American wife and mother, and is fiercely proud of that fact. -- Roseanne Barr
I may discuss love, and I don't mind if two men fall in love, fine. Two women, fine. But I flinch when I think of two Jewish women getting together and having a child because the idea of having two Jewish mothers makes my head explode. I have one; I couldn't handle two. -- Garry Shandling

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