Logo
Quote by Mary Antin
As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the

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

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

Category:
Birthday
Author
Mary Antin
Read Quote

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

Category:
Morning
Author
Mary Antin
Read Quote

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

Category:
Health
Author
Mary Antin
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Morning
category

In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning. – William Hull

Category:
Morning

In this respect early youth is exactly like old age it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train. – Bruce Catton

Category:
Morning

I just motor through school in the morning and then go skating. – Ryan Sheckler

Category:
Morning

I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim. – Tammy Faye Bakker

Category:
Morning

Random Quotes

Art is the struggle to understand. – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Art

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Category:
respect

What do you get when you cross poison ivy with a four-leaf clover? A rash of good luck. – Author Unknown

Category:
St Patricks

People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them. – Condorcet, Progress of the Human Mind, 1794

Category:
Conformity