John Green Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.

  John Green

  Fathers Day, Pride, Father Son

• The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you're unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.

  John Green

  Fathers Day, Dad, Fatherhood

• I hate the rich snots here with a fervent passion I usually reserve only for dental work and my father.

  John Green

  Father, Hate, Passion

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.22, Penguin

• They were angry, I thought. Horrified. These teenagers, with their hormones, making out beneath a video broadcasting the shattered voice of a former father.

  John Green

  Father, Teenager, Voice

• 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

• Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting.

  John Green

  Father, Character, Interesting

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

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