Swing Sets Quotes

• 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

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• 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

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• No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.

  John Green

  Matter, Way, Kicks

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

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• The empty swing set reminds us of this--
  that bad won't be bad forever,
  and what is good can sometimes last
  a long, long time.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Swings, Long, Forever

  Jacqueline Woodson (2014). “Brown Girl Dreaming”, p.117, Penguin

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• I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while... if you keep on walking.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Journey, Thinking, Swings

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• 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

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• I'll remember the view out this window [from Oval Cabinet], because this is where we had our - the playground that we put in when Malia and Sasha came in. Being able every once in awhile to look out the window and see your daughters during the summer, swinging on that swing set, that made the presidency a little bit sweeter.

  Barack Obama

  Summer, Daughter, Views

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Infinity imagines curiosity from the wild abyss - Only the child makes a swing-set view of the worlds upside down. Unwatched truth is the enchantment of childhood.And we never grow out of it.

  Akiane Kramarik

  Children, Swings, Views

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• We gotta do something about this frigging swing set,' he said. 'I'm telling you, it's ninety percent of the problem.

  John Green

  Swings, Problem, Ninety

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.74, Penguin

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• Each of us is born with a series of built-in confusions that are probably somehow Darwinian. These are: (1) we're central to the universe (that is, our personal story is the main and most interesting story, the only story, really); (2) we're separate from the universe (there's US and then, out there, all that other junk - dogs and swing-sets, and the State of Nebraska and low-hanging clouds and, you know, other people), and (3) we're permanent (death is real, o.k., sure - for you, but not for me).

  George Saunders

  Dog, Real, Clouds

  "George Saunders’s Advice to Graduates". 6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com. July 31, 2013.

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• When I would sell encyclopedias, I would drive down the road looking for a house with a swing set in the back, and I'd say, "Oh, those folks got kids. They need some books." I'd knock on their door and sell them a set of encyclopedias, and those books were from $300 to $600. I'd look around the house, and if there wasn't that much furniture in the house, I felt a little bad about selling a $600 set of books to people who couldn't afford a couch. So I didn't last at that job very long.

  Willie Nelson

  Jobs, Book, Kids

  Interview with Woody Harrelson, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 12, 2015.

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• 'Cause I'm just - I want to go to Amsterdam, and I want him to tell me what happens after the book is over, and I just don't want my particular life, and also the sky is depressing me, and there is this old swing set out here that my dad made for me when I was a kid.' 'I must see this old swing set of tears immediately,' he said. 'I'll be over in twenty minutes.'

  John Green

  Depressing, Dad, Book

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green and Rodrigo Corral, January 10, 2012.

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