Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I had no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We've made science experiments of ourselves and our children. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I'm telling you all of this because I'll never be your father, and you will always be my child.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Isn't it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what we're doing… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We can't stop… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Even if I don't like what I am, I know what I am. My children like what they are, but they don't… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“unless you obtain your food in secret and eat it in the closet, you don’t eat alone. We eat as sons and… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I’m not smarter than you, I’m more knowledgeable than you, and that’s only because I’m older than you. Parents are always more… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
My children not only inspired me to reconsider what kind of eating animal I would be, but also shamed me into reconsideration. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Suddenly Yankel was overcome with a fear of dying, stronger than he felt when his parents passed of natural causes, stronger than… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It shouldn't be the consumer's responsibility to figure out what's cruel and what's kind, what's environmentally destructive and what's sustainable. Cruel and… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Cruel and destructive food products should be illegal. We don’t need the option of buying children’s toys made with lead paint, or… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
(What are your ghosts like?) (They are on the insides of the lids of my eyes.) (This is also where my ghosts… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
In the past seven years of love-making he had heard the words "I love you" so many times: from the mouths of… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, keep in touch (or don't), care about birthdays, waste and lose time,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Children were allowed to lie down on the park as it was being moved. This was considered a concession, although no one… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
And nothing inspires as much shame as being a parent. Children confront us with our paradoxes and hypocrisies, and we are exposed.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“They exchanged notes, like children. My grandfather made his out of newspaper clippings and dropped them in her woven baskets, into which… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The way that I feel about my Jewish identity has been really radically changed by events in life. Like, becoming a writer… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our… — Jonathan Safran Foer 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“The appearance was misleading- human dreams; rubbish heaps abundant yet ephemeral sudden and splendid, only to wilt and perish” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“the entirety of human society and moral progress represents an explicit transcendence of what’s “natural.” — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
“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
“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
Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why?… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
My insides don't match up with my outsides. -Do anyone's inside and outsides match up? -I don't know. I'm only me. -Maybe that's what… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share
