Trevor Noah Quotes

My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.

I am very proud of being Jewish. I went to a Jewish school all my life.

Well, my first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.

I'm a fifth generation Jew from the South, and I would say that I felt this connection to my religion, but it wasn't a spiritual connection.

I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.

I never paid much attention to being Jewish when I was a kid. In fact, I'd say my religion was more surfing than Judaism - that's what I spent most of my time doing.

When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education.

I had a bat mitzvah, was confirmed, went to Jewish summer camp, I go to temple for the High Holy Days. I think, like most people in their early 20s, I kind of strayed away from it. I think once I have a family I'll be back into it.

The African-American tradition, in the main, is very, very church-based, very, very Christian. It accepts, you know, certain narratives about the world. I didn't really have that present in my house.

We keep a Jewish household and are raising our daughters Jewish.

When I go to Korea and they say, 'Sing like a Korean person,' I can't do it. I didn't grow up with that sound.

Neither of my parents had English as a first language.

I identify myself as what I am. I'm half Jewish, like Proust. I have no other way to put it.

The whole upbringing was interesting because we grew up Orthodox Jews all the way until we were teenagers.

I am half-Jewish, and yet really hadn't been brought up within the Jewish faith. So I had felt culturally Jewish, if that's possible, without really understanding it.

We are a mixed marriage, so our kids were raised with a little less Judaism than I was raised with.

There can be no equivocation. I am Jewish.

I'm a Jew. I think of myself as a Jew first and Englishman second.

I was a heathen Jewess with no bat mitzvah. Only the neurosis, the brown hair, and the self-deprecating humor. But being one of the only Jewish kids in my WASPy hometown definitely informed my perspective on the humor of being an outsider.

I am very proud of being Jewish.

Spiritually, I'm Jewish.

I was brought up a Jew but, you know, that way of being Jewish - the New York way. We were stomach Jews; we were Jewish-joke Jews. We were bagel Jews. We didn't go to synagogue. I'm frightened of synagogue to this day.

I went to Temple Emanu-El, and my rabbi, Rabbi Landsberg, was a huge influence on me. When I was 7 and went to kindergarten, there he was, a young rabbi who didn't wear a yarmulke and rode a motorcycle.

I lived a very, very Middle Eastern life until I was in my early 20s. It was very sheltered.

It matters a great deal that I come from a Jewish background.