Parenting Quotes by John Green

“You don't know a father's weight until it's lifted.”

— John Green

“mothers lie. It´s in the job description.”

— John Green

“My mother's footsteps Were so quiet I barely heard her leave”

— John Green

My stomach sank. JP had come so close. His immigrant parents had sacrificed so much.

— John Green

“I was the alpha and the omega of my parents’ suffering.”

— John Green

But mothers lie. It's in the job description.

— John Green

“I thought of Otto Frank not being a father anymore, left with a diary instead of a wife and two daughters.”

— John Green

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

— John Green

“since I had been in very good terms with Anne, that most parents don’t know really their children.”

— John Green

“My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did not know I existed.”

— John Green

It is not my fault that my parents own the world's largest collection of black Santas.

— John Green

Just a word of advice. Whenever you're furious with your parents or you think they're terrible, just remember, you vomited on them…

— John Green

Patients are almost always preceded by their parents, because no matter how fast an ambulance can drive, terrified parents can drive faster.

— John Green

I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an…

— John Green

“What is wrong with your parents? It’s just reading. As a parent myself, I can certainly think of worse habits than reading.…

— John Green

“Still perfect,” he said. “Read to me.” “This isn’t really a poem to read aloud when you are sitting next to your…

— John Green

“Ninety-nine percent of the time, your parents never have to know, though. The school doesn't want your parents to think you became…

— John Green

I'll just go over to the Duke's," I said. "Her parents already told me I could stay there. I'll go over there…

— John Green

“I wanna have a Eureka moment,” he said, the way another kid might have expressed longing for a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.…

— John Green

“Hazel, do you enjoy it?' I paused a second, trying to figure out if my response should be calibrated to please Augustus…

— John Green

The nature of the love between a parent and child really is literally stronger than death. As long as either person in…

— John Green

I think when you're 16, if you have good parents, they generally just fade in the background. I had great parents, and…

— John Green

This is what happens: somebody—girl usually—got a free spirit, doesn't get on too good with her parents. These kids, they're like tied-down…

— John Green

“That which came together will fall apart imperceptibly slowly, and I will forget, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as I…

— John Green

Hazel has to realize that her mom was wrong when she said, “I won’t be a mother anymore.” The truth is, after…

— John Green

“Public education does not exist for the benefit of students or the benefit of their parents. It exists for the benefit of…

— John Green

“Sure, I fear earthly oblivion. But, I mean, not to sound like my parents, but I believe humans have souls, and I…

— John Green

“And if Alaska took her own life, that is the hope I wish I could have given her. Forgetting her mother, failing…

— John Green

“You know how people are always saying your parents are always right? "Follow your parents' advice; they know what's good for you."…

— John Green

“Still perfect,” he said. “Read to me.” “This isn’t really a poem to read aloud when you are sitting next to your…

— John Green

“Best day of my life hasn't happened yet. But I know it. I see it every day. The best day of my…

— John Green

“Lady and gentleman, when my parents left Korea with nothing but the clothes on their backs and the considerable wealth they had…

— John Green

“My father died suddenly, but also across the years. He was still dying, really - which meant I guess that he was…

— John Green

“Both my parents are therapists, which means that I am really goddamned well adjusted.”

— John Green

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

— John Green

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

— John Green

The phrase booze and mischief left me worrying I'd stumbled into what my mother referred to as "the wrong crowd," but for…

— John Green

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

— John Green

Right, except I'm not going to lie to my mom, because what kind of (man) lies to his own mother?

— John Green

“How did you get so grown up that you understand things that confuse your ancient mother?”

— John Green