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First Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Why are entire flocks of industrial birds dying at once? And what about the people eating those birds? Just the other day, one of the…
- I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone. I wondered, for the…
- It was the first time I had ever made love. I wondered if he knew that. It felt like crying. I wondered, Why does anyone…
- You will remember when a bird crashed through the window and fell to the floor. You will remember, those of you who were there, how…
- Suddenly Yankel was overcome with a fear of dying, stronger than he felt when his parents passed of natural causes, stronger than when his only…
- A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of my son and some…
- Flea-Market vendors are frozen mid-haggle. Middle-aged women are frozen in the middle of their lives. The gavels of frozen judges are frozen between guilt and…
- But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking, I became a…
- Life was a small negative space cut out of the eternal solidity, and for the first time, it felt precious - not like all of…
- I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness. We made love in nothing places and turned the lights off. It felt…
- I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth…
More First Quotes
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I am lucky, I'm the first to admit that. — J. J. Abrams
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement… — Aristotle
- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong