Parenting Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“My father's face, when he said that, dissolved into a stillness, a sad expression, sadder than human feeling.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“No father knows that he is carrying his son up the stairs for the final time”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“I'm telling you all of this because I'll never be your father, and you will always be my child.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“I was thankful," said my father, "for the make-believe.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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

In the water I saw my father's face, and that face saw the face of its father, and so on, and so…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“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

I realized that your mother couldn't see the emptiness, she couldn't see anything...All of the words I'd written to her over all…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Everyone performs bad actions. I do. Father does. Even you do. A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“she saw through the shell of me into the center of me … She went home with her father, the center of…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Literature was the only religion her father practiced, when a book fell on the floor he kissed it, when he was done…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“And when she said, Father, I love you , she was neither naive nor dishonest, but the opposite: she was wise and…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“My friends are appeased to stay in Odessa for their entire lives. They are appeased to age like their parents, and become…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I knew that our time together was almost over, I asked her if she liked sports, she asked me if I liked…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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

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

“The twins hid their bodies under their father’s tallis, like ghosts. The horse at the bottom of the river, shrouded by the…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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

“The dream that we are our fathers. I walked to the Brod, 41 without knowing why, and looked into my reflection in…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

We slept in the same bed. There was never a right time to say it. It was always unnecessary. The books in…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

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

“I went to my grandmother, your great-great-grandmother, and asked her to write a letter. She was my mother's mother. Your father's mother's…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Mother is a humble woman. Very, very humble. She toils at a small café one hour distance from our home. She presents…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“But he also knew that there is an inflationary aspect to love, and that should his mother, or Rose, or any of…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“When we found each other, I was very flabbergasted by his appearance. This is an American? I thought. And also, This is…

— Jonathan Safran Foer