Mary Antin 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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality: russian
  • Birth: February 24, 1909 - May 15, 1949

Topics

PositiveLoveHealthPrayerPolice

We once believed we were auteurs, but we weren't. We had no idea, really. Film is over. It's sad nobody is really exploring it. But what to do? And anyway, with mobile phones and everything, everyone is now an auteur.

Jean-Luc Godard

SadNobodyNowPhonesExploring

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

Jean Rostand

PowerSayVocationSuspiciousLeast

I wanted to be Brooke Shields, and my mother was an aspiring photographer, so I was, of course, the only one who would sit still long enough for her to get things in focus, and I loved doing that.

Stephanie Seymour

MotherFocusLovedDoingEnoughSit

I don't want to miss out on my grandchildren and my daughter, and doing Broadway would do just that.

Rita Moreno

DaughterDoingGrandchildrenWant

America does not like people being not nice to dogs.

Rob James-Collier

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There is little correlation between the circumstances of people's lives and how happy they are.

Dennis Prager

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If I were related to Monet, I don't know if I would be comfortable becoming an artist because it's too much, the comparison. If I wrote a book and put it out, the comparison to my great-grandfather, the comparison would be hilarious. Every critic, it would be their dream, they'd tear me apart.

Dree Hemingway

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There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented me from being perfectly happy or making a woman perfectly happy.

Conrad Veidt

NatureHeartWomanHappyMeBelieve

If we are going to save this country, if we are going to reestablish that belief in God, it's up to us. If we don't do it, who will?

Bob Riley

GodCountryWillBeliefUpGoing

If we are to create tomorrow's jobs, we can't remain frozen in time in yesterday's tax system.

Bob Taft

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I go out with friends, but I don't have time to get in trouble.

Britney Spears

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I think of some of my friends who have passed to the spirit world but are who here with me when I go to events and when I walk in my own community. My sisters, Ingred, my sister Marsha, and my sister Nielock. All cofounders of the Indigenous Women's Network with me. All long time women activists in the native community.

Winona LaDuke

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