Quote by Mary Antin Download Open image ““The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness.”” — Mary Antin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Forget forgetting. We seek to forget ourselves, to be surprised and to do something without knowing how or why. The way of life is… — Peter Rock Copy Share Image
“To forget the past so easily seems scarcely loyal to oneself. I am so selfishly absorbed in my present self that I have grown not to care a damn about that ever increasing collection of past selves- those dear, dead gentlemen who one after the other have tenanted the temple of this flesh and handed on the torch of my… — W.N.P. Barbellion Copy Share
“One last thing I remember which was like a portent of things to come. We had been having tea in Dr Jordan’s house in… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Thus for me, the principal meaning of being a Jew was something people reliably held against me, a barrier to overcome. ” — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
“...while forgetting the past might condemn people to repeat it, remembering it too vividly condemned them to never leave.” — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
“...you lifted the veil when you admitted you had no memory of that day - it was so special and your lack of recall… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“How many times have I gone back to the border of memory and peered into the darkness beyond? But it is not only memories… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“I forget so easily that there’s a bigger picture. I’m easily seduced by the bustle of the day—lunch and laundry, deadlines and dinnertime. I… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
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… — Mary Antin Copy Share Image
One current of continuity runs underneath all the abortive phases of my life. From childhood on I have been obliged to drop anything I was doing to run after any man who seemed to know a little more than I did about God . . . I most want to write about: how a modern woman has sought the face… — Mary Antin Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
The past was only my cradle, and now it cannot hold me, because I am grown too big. — Mary Antin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose. — Mary Antin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
