John Green Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I’ll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid.

  John Green

  Children, Kids, Blow

• As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist.

  John Green

  Children, Liars, Novelists

• Our children are weird. Nicely phrased.

  John Green

  Children, Hipster, Our Children

• Headline?" he asked. "'Swing Set Needs Home,'" I said. "'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,'" he said. "'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children,'" I said.

  John Green

  Lonely, Children, Home

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.86, Penguin UK

• One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home. Make memories with your kid or kids so that someday he or she or they will look into the backyard and feel the ache of sentimentality as desperately as I did this afternoon. It's all fragile and fleeting, dear reader, but with this swing set, your child(ren) will be introduced to the ups and downs of human life gently and safely, and may also learn the most important lesson of all: No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.

  John Green

  Truth, Memories, Children

• “I thought we were in a church basement, but we are literally in the heart of Jesus.” “Someone should tell Jesus,” I said. “I mean, it's gotta be dangerous, storing children with cancer in your heart.” “I would tell Him myself.” Augustus said, “but unfortunately I am literally stuck inside of His heart, so He won't be able to hear me.”

  John Green

  Jesus, Children, Real

  "Will Grayson, Will Grayson". Book by David Levithan, John Green, and Rodrigo Corral, April 6, 2010.

• Those of us who frequent the band room have long suspected that Becca maintains her lovely figure by eating nothing but the souls of kittens and the dreams of impoverished children.

  John Green

  Dream, Children, Long

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.30, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Like all sick children,' he answered dispassionately, 'you say you don't want pity, but your very existence depends upon it.

  John Green

  Children, Sick, Want

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.110, Penguin

• The kiss lasted forever as Otto Frank kept talking from behind me. "And my conclusion is," he said, "since I had been in very good terms with Anne, that most parents don't know really their children.

  John Green

  Children, Real, Kissing

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.132, Penguin UK

• Lonley, Vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children.

  John Green

  Children, Swings, Grace

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.75, Penguin

• You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, the little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that was not built for them by navigating a playground that was. . . Who am I to say that these things might not be forever? Who is Pete Van Houten to assert as fact the conjecture that our labor is temporary? All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park: an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming with ruined ruins and screaming children.

  John Green

  Children, Distance, Kids

• The nature of the love between a parent and child really is literally stronger than death. As long as either person in that relationship is alive, that relationship is still alive.

  John Green

  Children, Love Is, Long

  Interview with Jade Chang, www.goodreads.com. December, 2012.

• Gus: "It tastes like..." Me: "Food." Gus: "Yes, precisely. It tastes like food, excellently prepared. But it does not taste, how do I put this delicately...?" Me: "It does not taste like God Himself cooked heaven into a series of five dishes which were then served to you accompanied by several luminous balls of fermented, bubbly plasma while actual and literal flower petals floated down around your canal-side dinner table." Gus: "Nicely phrased." Gus's father: "Our children are weird." My dad: "Nicely phrased."

  John Green

  Children, Dad, Father

• That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.

  John Green

  Children, Thinking, Genius

• In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to you.

  John Green

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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