Mary Antin 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.

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  Mom, Mother, Spiritual

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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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.

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  Real, Fall, Errors

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• It is not that I belong to the past, but the past that belongs to me.

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  Anterior

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.251, Courier Corporation

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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.

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  Morning, School, Pride

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.136, Courier Corporation

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• Algo característico del aspirante a inmigrante es que no se conforma con progresar solo. A sus ojos, el éxito en solitario es un éxito imperfecto. Debe llevar consigo a su familia en su ascenso.

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  Eye, Progress, Facts

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.245, Courier Corporation

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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.

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  World, May, Liable

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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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.

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  Running, Past, Two

  Mary Antin (1912). “The Promised Land”, Houghton Mifflin company

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• The past was only my cradle, and now it cannot hold me, because I am grown too big.

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  Past, Cradle, Bigs

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.251, Courier Corporation

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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.

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  Girl, Children, School

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• Entre mis recuerdos más vivos están los de comer y beber; y preferiría renunciar a algunos de mis deliciosos paseos, con sus árboles verdes, su cielo fresco y todo, antes que perder mis imágenes de las cenas del sábado por la noche al final de esos paseos.

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  Giving Up, Memories, Drinking

  Mary Antin (1912). “The Promised Land”, Houghton Mifflin company

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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.

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  Community, May, Scholar

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.76, Courier Corporation

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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.

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  Mother, Spiritual, Pain

  Mary Antin (1912). “The Promised Land”, Houghton Mifflin company

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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.

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  Art, Drama, Clouds

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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.

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  Struggle, Writing, School

  Mary Antin (1912). “At School in the Promised Land: Or The Story of a Little Immigrant”

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• En un cumpleaños real, todas las casas deben enarbolar una bandera o el propietario será llevado a comisaría y multado con veinticinco rublos.

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  Birthday, House, Police

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• A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession.

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  Bed, Confession, Autobiography

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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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.

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  Correr, Mujeres, Escribir

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• A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would run.

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  Running, Past, Long

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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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.

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  Patriotic, Pyramids, Honor

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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.

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  Dos, Mundo, Quieren

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• Se oía por todas partes que los niños judíos más brillantes eran rechazados si a los examinadores no les gustaba la forma de sus narices.

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  Children, Two Sides, Noses

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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• What we get in steerage is not the refuse, but the sinew and bone of all the nations.

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  Bones, Refuse, Nations

  Mary Antin (1914). “They who Knock at Our Gates: A Complete Gospel of Immigration”

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• The czar always got his dues, no matter if it ruined a family.

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  Matter, Ruined, Czars

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose.

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  Children, Heart, Noses

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.16, Courier Corporation

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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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  Practice, Use, Elements

  Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.150, Courier Corporation

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