No, the czar did not want us in the schools. - Mary Antin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth. - Mary Antin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Steadily as I worked to win America, America advanced to lie at my feet. I was an heir, on Dover Street, awaiting maturity. I was a princess waiting to be led to the throne. - Mary Antin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Mary Antin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
There was one thing, however, the Gentiles always understood, and that was money. They would take any kind of bribe, at any time. They expected it. - Mary Antin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
First, you had to have a tutor at home, who prepared you and talked all the time about the examination you would have to pass, till you were scared. - Mary Antin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
My days in the slums were pregnant with possibilities it only needed the ripeness of events to make them fruit forth in rcalities. - Mary Antin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school. - Mary Antin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The Gentiles used to wonder at us because we cared so much about religious things about food and Sabbath and teaching the children Hebrew. - Mary Antin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
In the evening of the first day my father conducted us to the public baths. - Mary Antin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
But most of the Gentiles were ignorant. - Mary Antin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would run. - Mary Antin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
It is not that I belong to the past, but the past that belongs to me. - Mary Antin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Mary Antin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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