Gertrude Berg Quotes

• The bagel is a lonely roll to eat all by yourself because in order for the true taste to come out you need your family. One to cut the bagels, one to toast them, one to put on the cream cheese and the lox, one to put them on the table and one to supervise.

  Gertrude Berg

  Lonely, Cutting, Order

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• When it's all over and the on the air signs go off there isn't a more lost feeling in the world. The wonderful, exciting, even glamorous, studio is now just a room dirty with coffee cartons and cigarette butts.

  Gertrude Berg

  Coffee, Dirty, Air

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• I'm a firm believer in anxiety and the power of negative thinking.

  Gertrude Berg

  Thinking, Anxiety, Negative

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• Some people have family crests, lions, tigers, unicorns, elephants - a whole menagerie - and if my family had a crest, you know what would be on it? A blintze. I mean it. All the good things in my life are measured in blintzes because by us it's not a party if there isn't a blintze.

  Gertrude Berg

  Family, Party, Food

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• By some people the meal itself is a long delay between the appetizer and the dessert.

  Gertrude Berg

  Long, People, Meals

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• So the legs are little short, the knees maybe knock a little but who listens?

  Gertrude Berg

  Body, Legs, Littles

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• It's such a corrosive chemical: fame.

  Gertrude Berg

  Fame, Chemicals

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• Borscht is more than a soup, it's a weather vane. When my family says they want hot borscht I know winter is coming, and when they want cold borscht I know how far can spring be behind?

  Gertrude Berg

  Spring, Food, Winter

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