Jewish Mother Quotes:

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

- Rudyard Kipling

topic: Mothers Day, God, Christian, Jewish Mother, Special Mother

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

source: "Great Minds Start With Questions". Parents Magazine, September 1993.

topic: Mother, Children, School, Jewish Mother, Good Questions

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

topic: Mother, Country, War, Jewish Mother, Your Son

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

topic: Mother, Jeans, Dresses, Jewish Mother

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

topic: Mother, Sunset, Names, Jewish Mother, Hollywood Hills

I've been described as a tough and noisy woman, a prize fighter, a man-hater, you name it. They call me Battling Bella, Mother Courage, and a Jewish mother with more complaints than Portnoy. There are those who say I'm impatient, impetuous, uppity, rude, profane, brash, and overbearing. Whether I'm any of those things, or all of them, you can decide for yourself. But whatever I am -- and this ought to be made very clear -- I am a very serious woman.

- Bella Abzug

source: Bella S. Abzug (1972). “Bella!: Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington”, Saturday Review Press

topic: Mother, Men, Names, Man Hater, Jewish Mother

I couldn't lie anymore to my kids telling them that they are equal citizens in the state of Israel. They cannot be equal because in order to fit in and to be accepted and to be a citizen in Israel, you need a Jewish mother. So basically what I'm trying to tell my kids is just, it's their mother's fault and it's not my fault.

- Sayed Kashua

topic: Mother, Lying, Kids, Jewish Mother

over protective? a butler in a grade- B movie? someones jewish mother? you got it

- Margaret Weis

topic: Mother, Butlers, Grades, Jewish Mother, Zifnab

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

topic: Mother, Strong, Practice, Jewish Family, Jewish Mother

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

topic: Mother, New York, Father, Jewish Mother

My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.

- Peter R. Orszag

source: "How Peter Orszag's Budget Team Makes America Work" by John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. February 1, 2010.

topic: Mom, Mother, Dad, Jewish Mother

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

topic: Mother, Want, Chef, Jewish Mother, Eagerness