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Parent Quotes by John Green
- It is not my fault that my parents own the world's largest collection of black Santas.
- Radar threw his books into his locker and shut it. Then the din of conversation around us quieted just a bit as he turned his…
- 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 and open all…
- My stomach sank. JP had come so close. His immigrant parents had sacrificed so much.
- There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or save us, that everyone who wades through time eventually gets dragged…
- I hadn’t been in proper school in three years. My parents were my two best friends. My third best friend was an author who did…
- I went on spouting bullshit Encouragements as Gus's parents, arm in arm, hugged each other and nodded at every word. Funerals, I had decided, are…
- I hated hurting him. Most of the time, I could forget about it, but the inexorable truth is this: They might be glad to have…
- I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were...miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt. And then there…
- My parents always liked it when I cursed in front of them. I could see the pleasure of it in their faces. It signified that…
- I didn't want to see them lower him into the ground in the spot he'd picked out with his dad, and I didn't want to…
- 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…
- 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 helium balloons. They…
- Hazel GRACE!†he shouted. “You did not use your one dying Wish to go to Disney World with your parents.†“Also Epcot Center,†I mumbled.…
- Do you have a Wish?' he asked, referring to this organization, The Genie Foundation, which is in the business of granting sick kids one wish.…
- You couldn't be more wrong," I said. "You are buying into the cross-stitched sentiments of your parents' throw pillows. You're arguing that the fragile, rare…
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- If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to… — Teresa of Avila
- Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really… — Bill Ayers
- Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our… — Joe Baca
- My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that. So, I… — Michele Bachmann
- The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. — Francis Bacon
- When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to… — Erykah Badu