Anzia Yezierska Quotes

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 live in.

Anzia Yezierska

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• A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • People
  • World
  • Japanese

• All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Money
  • Government
  • Problems

• The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'

  

  Karen Gillan
  • People
  • God
  • Think

• I love the process of acting, and to turn your passion into a career is the biggest gift.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Career
  • Passion
  • Gift

• We all have our strengths and our failings.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Our
  • Strengths
  • Failings

• War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • War
  • Political
  • Military

• First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • You
  • Drink
  • New Years

• I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Acting
  • Movies
  • Loved

• I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impressions to make friends at school. I would do them during recess. Maybe some of the kids thought I was being weird, but everyone seemed to have a good time.

  

  Vesta Williams
  • Time
  • Good
  • Different

• Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Nature
  • Woman
  • Diamond

• A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Home

• Comedy scares me a lot. I feel like it's way harder than drama. I think my safety net is definitely drama, and I would love to kind of be able to be able to push into the comedy world and do something kind of like a Christopher Guest kind of style show. That, to me, is my kind of comedy. Like, Ricky Gervais comedy. That's my kind of thing.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • World
  • Comedy
  • Style

• I think we do want a front-runner from the Republican Party who can win the general election.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Party
  • Win
  • Election

• My God... What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don't make the playoffs?

  

  Wade Boggs
  • God
  • Monday
  • Playoffs

• If I were Osama, and the United States government were actually looking for me, I'd be clean-shaven by now, crewcutted, wearing jeans and a ZZ Top T-shirt, and living in a nice little house in Lincoln, Nebraska.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • House
  • Nice

• Aimer, c'est agir

  

  Victor Hugo

• Ask yourself what 'problem' you have right now, not next year, tomorrow, or five minutes from now. What is wrong with this moment?

  

  Eckhart Tolle

• I got my first real six string, bought it at the five and dime, played it 'til my fingers bled.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Real
  • Fingers
  • Six

• I've spent lots of time in London, I studied in London, I like London. It's just not my home.

  

  Johnny Vegas
  • Time
  • Home

• No use to preach to the working-man courtesy & politeness when at the same time the working-man is not given working conditions under which he can stay polite and soft-mannered.

  

  B. Traven
  • Time
  • Men
  • Use

• I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my life and my country and my child's education... I wish we didn't have so much money in politics, but that's not the world we live in. If we don't play here, we forfeit. And I'm not willing to forfeit my rights.

  

  Laura Ricketts
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• In a successful health system, the proportion of per-capita health dollars used for home care, outpatient primary care, and preventive services should actually increase, not decrease, relative to those for acute hospital care.

  

  Kenneth Frazier
  • Home
  • Health

• 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 live in.

  

  Anzia Yezierska
  • World
  • Children
  • Loneliness