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

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

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"Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth."

Growth, Mothers, Spiritual

"You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses."

Family, Children, Noses

"We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful."

Life, Growth, Body, First

"The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them."

Food, Father, Cooking, First

"The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school."

Public, Contentment, Pride, School

"There was one public school for boys, and one for girls, but Jewish children were admitted in limited numbers - only ten to a hundred; and even the lucky ones had their troubles."

Boys, Children, Girls, Numbers

"One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue."

Love, Health, Positive, Honor

"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 rubles."

Birthday, Police

"No, the czar did not want us in the schools."

School, Schools, Want

"In the evening of the first day my father conducted us to the public baths."

Family, Father, Day, Evening, First

Exlpore more Heart quotes

"In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished."

Charles Kendall Adams, American Educator

Heart, Columbus, Fire, Old

"A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man."

John Adams, American President

Heart, Desire, Man

"If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

Heart, Laughter, Man, May

"There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls."

Aeschylus, Greek Poet

Heart, Fear

"Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting."

Josef Albers, German Artist

Heart, Contrast, Painting

"No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it."

James Allen, British Author

Heart, Man, Temptation

"The way to a man's heart is through his chest."

Aaron Allston, American Novelist

Heart, Man

"She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away."

William Allingham, Irish Poet

Heart, Song

"Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved."

Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Brazilian Poet

Heart,

"A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart."

Pietro Aretino, Italian Poet

Heart, Cowardice, Mind