Quote by Mary Antin
The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on

The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school. – Mary Antin

Other quotes by Mary Antin

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

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Birthday
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As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns. – Mary Antin

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Morning
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One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czars health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue. – Mary Antin

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Health
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Your computer neednt be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at night. – Simon Mainwaring

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Morning

You come before me this morning with clean hands and clean collars. I want you to have clean tongues, clean manners, clean morals and clean characters. – John Burns

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Morning

By Thursday morning, wed gotten over the worst of it. – William Scranton

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Morning

I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if Im going to learn, I must do it by listening. – Larry King

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Morning

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Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught; Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten. – American Indian Proverb

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Lets face it – think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth? – Henry Louis Gates

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Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. – John Dryden

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alone

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types. – Christopher Lasch

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Family