Mother, I am young. Mother, I am just eighteen. I am strong. I will work hard, Mother. But I do not want this child to grow up just to work hard. Wha….

Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time..

The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life..

There is here, what is not in the old country. In spite of hard, unfamiliar things, there is here - hope. In the old country, a man can be no more th….

Intolerance is a thing that causes war, pogroms, crucifixions, lynchings, and makes people cruel to little children and each other. It is responsible….

It's come at last," she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache. When there wasn't enough food in the hou….

It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because you have to live them first..

How much do they be paying you?" he asked mellowly. "The usual salary. A little more than they think I'm worth and a little less than I think I'm wor….

But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better..

Suffering is also good, it makes a person rich in charachter..

Francie looked at her legs. They were long, slender, and exquisitely molded. She wore the sheerest of flawless silk stockings, and expensively made h….

If there was only one tree like that in the world, you would think it was beautiful. But because there are so many, you just can't see how beautiful ….

...the reading, the observing, the living from day to day. It was something that had been born into her and her only - the something different from a….

The difference between rich and poor", said Francie, "is that the poor do everything with thier own hands and the rich hire hands to do things..

A person who pulls himself up from a low environment via the bootstrap route has two choices. Having risen above his environment, he can forget it; o….