Quotes of: Fiddler Keyword

Mordcha: May the authorities be like onions with their heads in the ground!

Fiddler on the Roof

Ruby said there were many songs that you could not say anybody in particular had made by himself. A song went around from fiddler to fiddler and each one added something and took something away so that in time the song became a different thing from w...

Cold Mountain

I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.

Renee Fleming

Perchik: Money is the world's curse. Tevye: May the Lord smite me with it. And may I never recover.

Fiddler on the Roof

Tevye: [to Lazar Wolf] I always wanted a son, but I wanted one a little younger than myself.

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Men: [singing] And if our good fortune never comes, here's to whatever comes.

Fiddler on the Roof

Tevye: As the good book says, if you spit in the air, it lands in your face.

Fiddler on the Roof

[to God] Tevye: I know, I know. We are Your chosen people. But, once in a while, can't You choose someone else?

Fiddler on the Roof

Yente: People! I tell you, Tzeitel, if God lived on earth, people would break his windows!

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Mordcha: If the rich could hire others to die for them we, the poor, would all make a nice living.

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Tevye: [to God] It may sound like I'm complaining, but I'm not. After all, with Your help, I'm starving to death.

Fiddler on the Roof

Tevye: Where are you going? Lazar Wolf: Chicago. In America. Tevye: Chicago, America? We are going to New York, America. We'll be neighbors.

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Villager: An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. Tevye: Very good. That way the whole world will be blind and toothless.

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Tevye: You are just a poor tailor! Motel: That's true, Reb Tevye, but even a poor tailor is entitled to some happiness!

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Tevye: [singing] Is this the little girl I carried? Is this the little boy at play? Golde: [singing] I don't remember growing older. When did they?

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Perchik: In this world it is the rich who are the criminals. Someday their wealth will be ours. Tevye: That would be nice. If they would agree, I would agree.

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Tevye: [to Golde] Quiet, woman, before I get angry, because when I get angry even flies don't dare to fly!

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Perchik: I'm a very good teacher. Hodel: I heard that the Rabbi who must praise himself has a congregation of one.

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Fyedka: [introducing himself to Chava] I'm a pleasant fellow, charming, honest, ambitious, quite bright, and very modest.

Fiddler on the Roof

Tevye: [to God] As the Good Book says, ev... [chuckles] Tevye: Why should I tell You what the Good Book says?

Fiddler on the Roof

Perchik: [sings] They look so natural together. Hodel: [sings] Just like two newlyweds should be. Perchik, Hodel: [singing] Is there a canopy in store for me?

Fiddler on the Roof