Observant Quotations

I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.

The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society.

You grow up quick when you're a kid from Queens, riding the subway by yourself, ... You see things. You have an awareness of your surroundings. I think that made me a little more observant than I otherwise would have been.

He was observant of what was going on around him. He said the kid came from nowhere. Said he looked up and there the kid was.

Whether you're trying to learn in hockey or trying to learn in life, I've always tried to be observant and tried to learn more, tried to evolve, whether it's as a hockey player or as a person. With each year, I try to do that.

All three of us just had our eye on what was happening around us, we were very observant to what people were doing in love situations, and what was happening in the world,

God calls himself "Baseer" [Observant], so that the knowledge that He is watching you may keep you from sinning.

Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age.

My nature is orderly and observant and scrupulous and deeply introverted.

I think with what's happening, a lot of people are becoming more observant through time, and it helps us. We're getting good data.