Quotes by Mary Antin - Page 1

No, the czar did not want us in the schools.
Mary Antin / Author
Czar
Schools
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A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession.
Mary Antin / Author
Autobiography
Bed
Confession
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The czar always got his dues, no matter if it ruined a family.
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Czars
Dues
Matter
Ruined
Family Always Matter
Czar
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It is not that I belong to the past, but the past that belongs to me.
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In the evening of the first day my father conducted us to the public baths.
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Baths
Evening
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The past was only my cradle, and now it cannot hold me, because I am grown too big.
Mary Antin / Author
Bigs
Cradle
Past
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What we get in steerage is not the refuse, but the sinew and bone of all the nations.
Mary Antin / Author
Bones
Nations
Refuse
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A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would run.
Mary Antin / Author
Running
Long
Past
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You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose.
Mary Antin / Author
Children
Heart
Heavy
Noses
Jewish
Examined
Nose
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I have so little mastered the art of tranquil living that wherever I go I trail storm clouds of drama around me.
Mary Antin / Author
Art
Clouds
Drama
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I want now to be of today. It is painful to be conscious of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness.
Mary Antin / Author
Two
Want
World
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Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.
Mary Antin / Author
Birth
Growth
Mother
Pain
Spiritual
Mothers
Pains
Racked
Suffer
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The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.
Mary Antin / Author
Morning
Apex
Contentment
Pride
Public School
School
September
Bright
Civic
Entered
Reached
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On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.
Mary Antin / Author
Birthday
Smile
House
Police
Royal
Twenties
Twenty Five
Dragged
Flag
Owner
Police Station
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There is never a Jewish community without its scholars, but where Jews may not be both intellectuals and Jews, they prefer to remain Jews.
Mary Antin / Author
Community
May
Scholar
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You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses.
Mary Antin / Author
Children
Examining
Noses
Officers
Sides
Two Sides
Jewish
Brightest
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Such creatures of accident are we, liable to a thousand deaths before we are born. But once we are here, we may create our own world, if we choose.
Mary Antin / Author
Liable
May
World
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If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them.
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Afar
Higher
Draw
Nearer
Step
Whereby
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The czar was always sending us commands - you shall not do this and you shall not do that - till there was very little left that we might do, except pay tribute and die.
Mary Antin / Author
Pay
Tribute
Die
Commands
Czar
Except
Till
Pay Tribute
Sending
Shall
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There was one public school for boys, and one for girls, but Jewish children were admitted in limited numbers - only ten to a hundred; and even the lucky ones had their troubles.
Mary Antin / Author
Girl
Children
Numbers
Public School
School
Ten
Jewish
Admitted
Troubles
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The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.
Mary Antin / Author
Cooking
Father
Printing
Tin
Tin Cans
Variety
Cans
Lesson
Meal
Object
Produced
Several
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One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue.
Mary Antin / Author
Positive
Congregation
Emperor
Honor
Police
Prayer
Synagogue
Chief
Close
Czar
Gave
Shall
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A characteristic thing about the aspiring immigrant is the fact that he is not content to progress alone. Solitary success is imperfect success in his eyes. He must take his family with him as he rises.
Mary Antin / Author
Eye
Facts
Progress
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As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns.
Mary Antin / Author
Burned
Delighted
Illumination
Lamps
Moved
Procession
Streets
Carry
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We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful.
Mary Antin / Author
Birth
Bits
Body
Born
Growth
Inner Life
Painful
Spirit
Once
Attentive
Own
Those
First
Exceedingly
Inner
Later
Slow
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It is only that my illusion is more real to me than reality. And so do we often build our world on an error, and cry out that the universe is falling to pieces, if any one but lift a finger to replace the error by truth.
Mary Antin / Author
Errors
Fall
Real
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A little instruction in the elements of chartography—a little practice in the use of the compass and the spirit level, a topographical map of the town common, an excursion with a road map—would have given me a fat round earth in place of my paper ghost.
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Elements
Practice
Use
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Among the liveliest of my memories are those of eating and drinking; and I would sooner give up some of my delightful remembered walks, green trees, cool skies, and all, than to lose my images of suppers eaten on Sabbath evenings at the end of those walks.
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Drinking
Giving Up
Memories
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His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read, to follow a conversation or lecture; but he never learned to write correctly; and his pronunciation remains extremely foreign to this day.
Mary Antin / Author
Advantage
Conversation
Evening
Remains
School
Struggle
Writing
Bare
Correctly
Extremely
Follow
Foreign
Lecture
No Time
Take Advantage
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It is painful to be consciously of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness. I am not afraid to live on and on, if only I do not have to remember too much. A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would run.
Mary Antin / Author
Running
Past
Two
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We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.
Mary Antin / Author
Mom
Mother
Spiritual
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[I began to unload] the pyramid of honors, civic and literary, which had been heaped on me by the headlong process of rewarding a popular success. One day, I sat down and wrote a wholesale lot of letters of resignation. When I finished, I didn't belong to a single authors club or patriotic society. I was myself again, whatever that was.
Mary Antin / Author
Honor
Patriotic
Pyramids
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A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. A true man finds so much work to do that he has no time to contemplate his yesterdays; for to-day and to-morrow are here, with their impatient tasks. The world is so busy, too, that it cannot afford to study any man's unfinished work; for the end may prove it a failure, and the world needs masterpieces.
Mary Antin / Author
Men
Unfinished Work
Yesterday
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One current of continuity runs underneath all the abortive phases of my life. From childhood on I have been obliged to drop anything I was doing to run after any man who seemed to know a little more than I did about God . . . I most want to write about: how a modern woman has sought the face of God-not the name nor the fame but the face [ital] of God-and what adventures came to meet her on this ancient human path.
Mary Antin / Author
Running
Women
Writing
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