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

- Gertrude Berg

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 …

- Gertrude Berg

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

- Gertrude Berg

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 n…

- Gertrude Berg

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…

- Gertrude Berg

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

- Gertrude Berg

It's such a corrosive chemical: fame.

- Gertrude Berg

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? …

- Gertrude Berg