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Quotes About Unity

Dear Anna, we will live in a home with no walls, so that everywhere we go will be our home.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don't mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
We need much bigger pockets I thought as I lay in my bed counting off the seven minutes that it takes a normal person to fall asleep. We need enormous pockets pockets big enough for our families and our friends and even the people who aren't on our lists people we've never met but still want to protect. We need pockets for borough and for cities a pocket that could hold the universe.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
But I dig Negroes. I dig them all the way.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
accepting the compromise of the way we have been, the way we are, and the way we will likely be...may we live together in unwavering love and good health, amen.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Touch had always saved them in the past. No matter the anger or hurt, no matter the depth of the aloneness, a touch, even a light and passing touch, reminded them of their long togetherness.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine's Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
In the end, everyone looses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that night, like the turtle that everything else in the universe was on top of.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families, and our friends, and even the people who aren't on our lists, people we've never met but still want to protect. We need pockets for boroughs and for cities, a pocket that could hold the universe. But I knew that there couldn't be pockets that enormous. In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, like the turtle that everything else in the universe was on top of.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
What we forget about animals we begin to forget about ourselves.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families, and our friends, and even the people who aren't on our lists, people we've never met but still want to protect. We need pockets for boroughs and for cities, a pocket that could hold the universe. But I knew there couldn't be pockets that enormous. In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that night, like the turtle that everything else in the universe was on top of.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
One weird thing is, I wonder if everyone's hearts would start to beat at the same time, like how women who live together have their menstrual periods at the same time, which I know about, but don't really want to know about.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
In the end, everyone loses everyone. There's no invention to get around that. And so, I felt that night like the turtle that everything in the universe was on top of.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Do you know that I am the Gypsy girl and you are Safran, and that I am Kolker and you are Brod, and that I am your grandmother and you are Grandfather, and that I am Alex and you are you, and that I am you and you are me? Do you not comprehend that we can bring each other safety and peace? When we were under the stars in Trachimbrod, did you not feel it then? Do not present not-truths to me. Not to me.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
In the struggle between yourself and the world, side with the world.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Nothing- not a conversation, not a handshake or even a hug- establishes friendship so forcefully as eating together.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Sometimes my hand starts to burn and I am convinced we are writing the same word at the same moment.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
She was the tree and also the river flowing away from the tree[.]
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
SvÄ›t je tak veliký a tak malý, v jediné chvíli jsme byli blízko i daleko.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families, and our friends, and even the people who aren't on our lists, people we've never met but still want to protect. We need pockets for boroughs and for cities, a pocket that could hold the universe.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it heavy walls.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I walked through Long Island City, Woodside, Elmhurst, and Jackson Heights. I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
A questo punto, quasi tutti i trecento e passa cittadini dello Shtetl si radunarono per dibattere quella faccenda di cui non sapevano nulla. E meno un cittadino ne sapeva, più era granitico nelle sue argomentazioni. Niente di nuovo in questo.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer