A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)

Ferike Boros: Grandma Rommely

Quotes 

• Grandma Rommely : This reading will not stop! I say this thing. To this new land, your grandfather and I came very long ago now because we heard that here is something very good. Hard we worked, very hard, but we could not find this thing. For a long time, I do not understand, and then I know. When I am old, I know. In that old country, a child can rise no higher than his father's state. But here, in this place, each one is free to go as far as he's good to make of himself. This way, the child can be better than the parent and this is the true way things grow better. And this has to do something with the learning, which is here *free* to all people. I, who am old, miss this thing. My children miss this thing. But my children's children shall not miss it. This reading will not stop.