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Mary Antin 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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Die You Always Pay Little Left

A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

Jean Kerr

Man Speech Find Socks Clean Outside

I spent most of my youth in Montana, where there are long, cold winters, but Maine has the coldest winters you could imagine. Not only are they long, not only does it snow, but it gets really damp. It's a wet cold with a lot of wind.

Michael Finkel

Snow Youth Wind Cold Long You

When your product solves a problem that costs customers sleep, revenue, or profits, things are definitely looking up.

Steve Blank

Sleep Looking Problem Product Up

I am all for anything that is going to better equip a person who is physically challenged in any way, to have an opportunity to be able to do what they are able to do.

Stevie Wonder

Opportunity I Am Better Person Way

I'm not going to be singing songs that I made in the past. I closed the door on that incarnation of Sinead O'Connor.

Sinead O'Connor

Past Door Singing In The Past Going

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

Robert Fitzgerald

Poetry Elegance Revelation Most

True science teaches, above all, to doubt and to be ignorant.

Miguel de Unamuno

Science Doubt True Ignorant Above

It's one thing to be funny in a tweet. It is another to be funny for an hour.

Michelle Wolf

Funny One Thing Hour Tweet Thing

I still love red velvet cake.

Molly Sims

Love Red Cake Velvet Still

The radical otherness of birds is integral to their beauty and their value. They are always among us but never of us. Their indifference to us ought to serve as a chastening reminder that we're not the measure of all things.

Jonathan Franzen

Beauty Value Birds Measure Never Us

I don't like losing. I don't like to be in a losing position, and I show this a lot. I demonstrate on the pitch.

Diego Costa

Losing Position Show Like Lot Pitch

I like building houses, working as a carpenter, painting. You work with your hands to the best of your ability, and at the end of the day, you go home with some satisfaction: 'I built that!'

Brian Fallon

Work Home Best Day Painting End