Birthday Quote by Mary Antin

A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession.

— Mary Antin

One current of continuity runs underneath all the abortive phases of my life. From childhood on I have been obliged to drop anything I…

— Mary Antin

A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession. A true man finds so much work to do that he has no time to contemplate his…

— Mary Antin

“The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness.”

— Mary Antin

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

— Mary Antin

It is painful to be consciously of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness. I am not afraid to live on and…

— Mary Antin

“The tongue am I of those who lived before me, as those that are to come will be the voice of my unspoken thoughts.…

— Mary Antin

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

— Mary Antin

The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from…

— Mary Antin

There was one public school for boys, and one for girls, but Jewish children were admitted in limited numbers - only ten to a…

— Mary Antin

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

— Mary Antin

We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the…

— Mary Antin