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Top 25 Anzia Yezierska Quotes (2024 Update)

Anzia Yezierska Quote: “In America, money takes the place of God.”

1. “In America, money takes the place of God.”

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Anzia Yezierska Quote: “I’m one of the millions of immigrant children, children of loneliness, wandering between worlds that are at once too old and too new to live in.”

2. “I’m one of the millions of immigrant children, children of loneliness, wandering between worlds that are at once too old and too new to live in.”

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Anzia Yezierska Quote: “Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut-a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand of the immigrant, he would forever remain driven back upon himself, corroded by the very richness of the unused gifts within his soul.”

3. “Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut-a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand of the immigrant, he would forever remain driven back upon himself, corroded by the very richness of the unused gifts within his soul.”

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Anzia Yezierska Quote: “If I had never met him I would have dreamed him into being.”

4. “If I had never met him I would have dreamed him into being.”

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Anzia Yezierska Quote: “Give a beggar a dime and he’ll bless you. Give him a dollar and he’ll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.”

5. “Give a beggar a dime and he’ll bless you. Give him a dollar and he’ll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.”

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Anzia Yezierska Quote: “I too was frightened the first time I felt I hated my father. I felt like a criminal. But could I help it what was inside of me? I had to feel what I felt even if it killed me.”

6. “I too was frightened the first time I felt I hated my father. I felt like a criminal. But could I help it what was inside of me? I had to feel what I felt even if it killed me.”

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Anzia Yezierska Quote: “The real thing creates its own poetry.”

7. “The real thing creates its own poetry.”

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Anzia Yezierska Quote: “As one of the dumb, voiceless ones I speak. One of the millions of immigrants beating, beating out their hearts at your gates for a breath of understanding.”

8. “As one of the dumb, voiceless ones I speak. One of the millions of immigrants beating, beating out their hearts at your gates for a breath of understanding.”

— Anzia Yezierska

Anzia Yezierska Quote: “When I only begin to read, I forget I’m on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.”

9. “When I only begin to read, I forget I’m on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.”

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Anzia Yezierska Quote: “Like all people who have nothing, I lived on dreams.”

10. “Like all people who have nothing, I lived on dreams.”

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Anzia Yezierska Quote: “The world is a wheel always turning.”

11. “The world is a wheel always turning.”

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Anzia Yezierska Quote: “I felt I could turn the earth upside down with my littlest finger. I wanted to dance, to fly in the air and kiss the sun and stars with my singing heart. I, alone with myself, was enjoying myself for the first time as with grandest company.”

12. “I felt I could turn the earth upside down with my littlest finger. I wanted to dance, to fly in the air and kiss the sun and stars with my singing heart. I, alone with myself, was enjoying myself for the first time as with grandest company.”

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Anzia Yezierska Quote: “The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.”

13. “The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.”

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Anzia Yezierska Quote: “There is justice nowhere for a fool. A fool they whip even in the Holy Temple.”

14. “There is justice nowhere for a fool. A fool they whip even in the Holy Temple.”

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Anzia Yezierska Quote: “This fire in me, it’s not just the hunger of a woman for a man – it’s the hunger of all my people back of me, from all ages, for light, for the life higher!”

15. “This fire in me, it’s not just the hunger of a woman for a man – it’s the hunger of all my people back of me, from all ages, for light, for the life higher!”

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Anzia Yezierska Quote: “Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.”

16. “Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.”

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Anzia Yezierska Quote: “The stars in their infinite peace seemed to pour their healing light into me. I thought of captives in prison, the sick and the suffering from the beginning of time who had looked to these stars for strength. What was my little sorrow to the centuries of pain which those stars had watched? So near they seemed, so compassionate. My bitter hurt seemed to grow small and drop away. If I must go on alone, I should still have silence and the high stars to walk with me.”

17. “The stars in their infinite peace seemed to pour their healing light into me. I thought of captives in prison, the sick and the suffering from the beginning of time who had looked to these stars for strength. What was my little sorrow to the centuries of pain which those stars had watched? So near they seemed, so compassionate. My bitter hurt seemed to grow small and drop away. If I must go on alone, I should still have silence and the high stars to walk with me.”

— Anzia Yezierska

Anzia Yezierska Quote: “I tasted the bread and wine of equality.”

18. “I tasted the bread and wine of equality.”

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Anzia Yezierska Quote: “Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread.”

19. “Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread.”

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Anzia Yezierska Quote: “I was so obsessed and consumed with my grievances that I could not get away from myself and think things out in the light. I was in the grip of that blinding, destructive, terrible thing – righteous indignation.”

20. “I was so obsessed and consumed with my grievances that I could not get away from myself and think things out in the light. I was in the grip of that blinding, destructive, terrible thing – righteous indignation.”

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Anzia Yezierska Quote: “I want knowledge. How, like a starved thing in the dark, I’m driven to reach for it.”

21. “I want knowledge. How, like a starved thing in the dark, I’m driven to reach for it.”

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Anzia Yezierska Quote: “Science has salvaged scrap metal and even found vitamins and valuable oils in refuse, but old people are extravagantly wasted.”

22. “Science has salvaged scrap metal and even found vitamins and valuable oils in refuse, but old people are extravagantly wasted.”

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Anzia Yezierska Quote: “Woe is me! Bitter is me! For what is my life? Why didn’t the ship go under and drown me before I came to America?”

23. “Woe is me! Bitter is me! For what is my life? Why didn’t the ship go under and drown me before I came to America?”

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Anzia Yezierska Quote: “Those who were high go down low, and those who’ve been low go up higher.”

24. “Those who were high go down low, and those who’ve been low go up higher.”

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Anzia Yezierska Quote: “Hell, is trying to do what you can’t do, trying to be what you’re not.”

25. “Hell, is trying to do what you can’t do, trying to be what you’re not.”

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Anzia Yezierska Quote: “A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can’t get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.”

26. “A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can’t get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.”

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Anzia Yezierska Quote: “The only compensation for the artist is the chance to feed hungry hearts.”

27. “The only compensation for the artist is the chance to feed hungry hearts.”

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Anzia Yezierska Quote: “Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.”

28. “Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.”

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Anzia Yezierska Quote: “Back in my own place, the sky burst in upon me from the window and I was reminded of a long-forgotten passage in War and Peace. Napoleon, walking through the battlefield, sees a dying soldier and, holding up the flag of France, declaims: “Do you know, my noble hero, that you have given your life for your country?” “Please! Please!” the soldier cries. “You are blotting out the sky.”

29. “Back in my own place, the sky burst in upon me from the window and I was reminded of a long-forgotten passage in War and Peace. Napoleon, walking through the battlefield, sees a dying soldier and, holding up the flag of France, declaims: “Do you know, my noble hero, that you have given your life for your country?” “Please! Please!” the soldier cries. “You are blotting out the sky.”

— Anzia Yezierska

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