Books Quote by Anzia Yezierska Download Open image “When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.” — Anzia Yezierska ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Begin Read Books Forget Forget World High Thoughts Philosophy of Mind Read Forget This world Thoughts Wings World Writer
“Don't be amazed if you see my eyes always wandering. In fact, this is my way of reading, and it is only in this… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“when we are in the world of reading it helps us to think in the way we wish…” — Shebapmannil Copy Share Image
I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I read because I have to. It drives everything else from my mind. It lets me escape to find other world. — Adeline Yen Mah Copy Share Image
I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
As a reader myself, which precedes my being a writer, of course, I read in order to enter another world. — Lynne Tillman Copy Share Image
I kind of go in waves with reading. Sometimes I read all the time, and sometimes I can't get settled enough to focus. — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Reading has always been a major part of my life. It has broadened my world and taken me to places I would otherwise have… — Phyllis A. Whitney Copy Share Image
I don't really read too much. It really is counter to my energy. I can't sit down and concentrate on words. — Charlie Bewley Copy Share Image
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
If you read, the world is your oyster. It truly is. Reading makes everything possible. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Science has salvaged scrap metal and even found vitamins and valuable oils in refuse, but old people are extravagantly wasted. — Anzia Yezierska Copy Share Image
The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one… — Anzia Yezierska Copy Share Image
Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse. — Anzia Yezierska Copy Share Image
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… — Anzia Yezierska Copy Share Image
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… — Anzia Yezierska Copy Share Image
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… — Anzia Yezierska Copy Share Image
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… — Anzia Yezierska Copy Share Image
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.… — Anzia Yezierska Copy Share Image
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… — Anzia Yezierska Copy Share Image
I've borne the shame of mother while you bought her off with a present and a treat here and there. God knows how hard… — Anzia Yezierska Copy Share Image
The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all. — Anzia Yezierska Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image