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Top 25 Mary Antin Quotes (2025 Update)

Mary Antin Quote: “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.”

1. “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 Quote: “The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.”

2. “The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.”

Mary Antin Quote: “I have so little mastered the art of tranquil living that wherever I go I trail storm clouds of drama around me.”

3. “I have so little mastered the art of tranquil living that wherever I go I trail storm clouds of drama around me.”

Mary Antin Quote: “It is not that I belong to the past, but the past that belongs to me.”

4. “It is not that I belong to the past, but the past that belongs to me.”

Mary Antin Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

Mary Antin Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

Mary Antin Quote: “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.”

7. “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 Quote: “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.”

8. “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 Quote: “I want now to be of today. It is painful to be conscious of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness.”

9. “I want now to be of today. It is painful to be conscious of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness.”

Mary Antin Quote: “A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession.”

10. “A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession.”

Mary Antin Quote: “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.”

11. “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 Quote: “The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness.”

12. “The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness.”

Mary Antin Quote: “Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.”

13. “Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.”

Mary Antin Quote: “I was at a most impressionable age when I was transplanted to the new soil. I was in that period when even normal children, undisturbed in their customary environment, begin to explore their own hearts, and endeavor to account for themselves and their world.”

14. “I was at a most impressionable age when I was transplanted to the new soil. I was in that period when even normal children, undisturbed in their customary environment, begin to explore their own hearts, and endeavor to account for themselves and their world.”

Mary Antin Quote: “What we get in steerage is not the refuse, but the sinew and bone of all the nations.”

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

Mary Antin Quote: “You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses.”

16. “You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses.”

Mary Antin Quote: “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.”

17. “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.”

Mary Antin Quote: “The past was only my cradle, and now it cannot hold me, because I am grown too big.”

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

Mary Antin Quote: “Among the liveliest of my memories are those of eating and drinking; and I would sooner give up some of my delightful remembered walks, green trees, cool skies, and all, than to lose my images of suppers eaten on Sabbath evenings at the end of those walks.”

19. “Among the liveliest of my memories are those of eating and drinking; and I would sooner give up some of my delightful remembered walks, green trees, cool skies, and all, than to lose my images of suppers eaten on Sabbath evenings at the end of those walks.”

Mary Antin Quote: “A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would run.”

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

Mary Antin Quote: “There is never a Jewish community without its scholars, but where Jews may not be both intellectuals and Jews, they prefer to remain Jews.”

21. “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 Quote: “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.”

22. “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 Quote: “The world is so busy, too, that it cannot afford to study any man’s unfinished work; for the end may prove it a failure, and the world needs masterpieces.”

23. “The world is so busy, too, that it cannot afford to study any man’s unfinished work; for the end may prove it a failure, and the world needs masterpieces.”

Mary Antin Quote: “The czar always got his dues, no matter if it ruined a family.”

24. “The czar always got his dues, no matter if it ruined a family.”

Mary Antin Quote: “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.”

25. “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 Quote: “You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose.”

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

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