Yezierska America Quotes & Sayings

Every minute you invest in kids you get back four times over. — Graydon Carter

This is why I forgive, but I don't forget. When you forget someone, the forgiveness doesn't mean anything anymore. — Barry Lyga

Walk and love
We're walking in love
For the walk of love — Criss Jami

The spirit of defeating a man is the same for ten million men. The strategist makes small things into big things, like building a great Buddha from a one foot model. — Miyamoto Musashi

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? — Anzia Yezierska

In America, money takes the place of God. — Anzia Yezierska

Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong. — Barry White

Words can do wonderful things. They pound, purr. They can urge, they can wheedle, whip, whine. They can sing, sass, singe. They can churn, check, channelize. They can be a "Hup two three four." They can forge a fiery army of a hundred languid men. — Gwendolyn Brooks

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. — Anzia Yezierska

The universe is a strange and wondrous place. The truth is quite odd enough to need no help from pseudoscientific charlatans. — Richard Dawkins

It is a great help for a man to be in love with himself. For an actor, however, it is absolutely essential. — Robert Morley

Responsibility was our cruel mooring.... — David Brin

The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement, explain American development. — Frederick Jackson Turner

You have to watch the clock constantly because youre only allowed out of your home for a limited period, and for a busy person, watching the clock and knowing other people are watching the clock is extremely difficult. — Martha Stewart