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Children Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Feeding my children is not like feeding myself: it matters more.
- We've made science experiments of ourselves and our children.
- Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook…
- (What are your ghosts like?) (They are on the insides of the lids of my eyes.) (This is also where my ghosts reside.) (You have…
- Even if I don't like what I am, I know what I am. My children like what they are, but they don't know what they…
- Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able…
- 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…
- Choosing leaf or flesh, factory farm or family farm, does not in itself change the world, but teaching ourselves, our children, our local communities, and…
- He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make…
- And nothing inspires as much shame as being a parent. Children confront us with our paradoxes and hypocrisies, and we are exposed. You need to…
- In the past seven years of love-making he had heard the words "I love you" so many times: from the mouths of widows and children,…
- Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.
- I have no need for the past, I thought, like a child. I did not consider that the past might have a need for me.
- Isn't it strange how upset people get about a few dozen baseball players taking growth hormones, when we're doing what were doing to our food…
- Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, keep in touch (or don't), care about birthdays, waste and lose time, brush their teeth,…
- She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a child.
- 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 destructive food products…
- My children not only inspired me to reconsider what kind of eating animal I would be, but also shamed me into reconsideration.
- My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision.…
More Children Quotes
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The… — David Attenborough
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon