Quotes by Anzia Yezierska

Anzia Yezierska

Jewish-American novelist

Lived from: 1880 - 1970

Category: Writers (Contemporary)

Born: 29 october 1880 Died: 20 november 1970

Quotes 1 till 5 of 5.

  • 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 get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.
    Anzia Yezierska
    - +
     0
  • 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. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.
    Anzia Yezierska
    - +
     0
  • Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.
    Anzia Yezierska
    - +
     0
  • The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.
    Anzia Yezierska
    - +
     0
  • 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 the immigrant, he would forever remain driven back upon himself, corroded by the very richness of the unused gifts within his soul.
    Anzia Yezierska
    - +
     0
All Anzia Yezierska famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com