Immigrant-experience Quote by Jonathan Safran Foer Download Open image ““An ocean could not explain the distance we have traveled.”” — Jonathan Safran Foer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Immigrant-experience Ocean Philosophical-reflection Travel
“You don't really understand the ocean until you are in the midst of it, nothing but ocean on all sides, stretching away endlessly. Only… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“What we are trying to do may be just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less because of that missing… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
“You cannot discover new oceans until you are willing to lose sight of the shore.” — Sharon Leaf Copy Share Image
“We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.” — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“You said that the ocean scared you because of all the immense unknown that existed within it. Now I know why you couldn’t be… — Jennae Cecelia Copy Share Image
“Each day the sea is exactly the same. We seem no closer, and no farther from anything.” — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“And behind all this human movement the ocean bobbed and folded and slid, for nothing could keep still, not people, not water, not time.” — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“Trying not to let your lack of depth bring out the irritable in me-- there is only so much shallow an ocean can handle.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness. We made love in nothing places and turned the lights off. It… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“One day I wandered away from her and hid. I liked the way it felt to have someone look for me, to hear my… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about it at… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“The appearance was misleading- human dreams; rubbish heaps abundant yet ephemeral sudden and splendid, only to wilt and perish” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“the entirety of human society and moral progress represents an explicit transcendence of what’s “natural.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Food is not so much a symbol of freedom as the first requirement of freedom. We eat foods that are native to America on… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Rationally, factory farming is so obviously wrong, in so many ways. In all of my reading and conversations, I’ve yet to find a credible… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Being an immigrant is not a status but a state of mind. It doesn’t stop when you “assimilate” or “integrate” or when you go… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“I have seen them stagger out of their movie palaces and blink their empty eyes in the face of reality once more, and stagger… — John Fante Copy Share Image
“It’s a great honor, m’ijo. We know that. I’m sure everyone in Ysleta is proud of you. But this is who you are," she… — Sergio Troncoso Copy Share Image
“Again, this week as I walked on Broadway, in front of giant photographs of voluptuous supermodels at a Victoria Secret mega-store, who was rebuilding… — Sergio Troncoso Copy Share Image
“In some ways, I think that part of what I'm trying to accomplish, whether Amá really understands it or not, is to live for… — Erika L. Sánchez Copy Share Image
“I made many decisions, some awful and others brilliant, but I found ways to keep that openness in my soul that meant more to… — Sergio Troncoso Copy Share Image
“In quantum physics, particles change when they’re observed. But this isn’t quantum: my book doesn’t alter by being seen or unseen. It is exceptional… — S. Lucia Kanter St. Amour Copy Share Image
“The gaping hole in her heart is amplified when she catches a glimpse of the strands of silver hair framing her once young face… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
“Bela had thought she knew what love felt like, but when she saw Sanjay at the airport after six long months, her heart gave… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
“Immigrant parents, when they first move to North America, push towards whiteness, towards assimilation, to survive and thrive. Naturally, their children do too for… — Scaachi Koul Copy Share Image
“Going out on a date was very cheap in those days [1962]. I borrowed my father's station wagon, put in a gallon of gas… — Aslan Ben Eliahou Copy Share Image
“I hated seeing these spasmodic upside-down chicken heads stretching to puncture my flesh. I imagined once that they reached my groin and pecked out… — Sergio Troncoso Copy Share Image
![“Going out on a date was very cheap in those days [1962]. I borrowed my father's station wagon, put in a gallon of gas for 29 cents, went to the movies for 50 cents a ticket, bought a pack of cigarettes for 25 cents, and had a McDonald's hamburger for 19 cents apiece. It was very doable.” quote by Aslan Ben Eliahou](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dcd/aslan-ben-eliahou-221257_immigrant-experience_going-out-on-a-date-was-very-cheap-in-th_904658.jpg)
