Sesame Street Quotes

“I was coming down off the last painkiller left in my dresser drawer after Autumn tossed my stash. In that moment I was so groggy and happy I would have accepted a date with Oscar the Grouch - and planned to do some serious feeling up on the green furry beast too. Yeah, stooping to pharmaceutical-inspired sex fantasies about garbage can Sesame Street characters - that had to be the best Just Say No drug lecture a girl in a leg cast could ever receive to make her go cold turkey off the meds.”
― Rachel Cohn, Cupcake

“Do you know why they call me the Count? Because I love to count! Ah-hah-hah!
- The Count Sesame Street”
― Richard Bachman, The Long Walk

“Early bird gets the worm. But cookie taste better than worm. So me sleep in.”
― Cookie Monster, The Joy of Cookies: Cookie Monster's Guide to Life

“Would've been useful when I was about eight," I said. "I used to have wicked nightmares." I did, too: stupid dreams about being chased by Elmo. A psycho Elmo with eyes like that Chucky doll. I'd wake up screaming and Vicky would come running in and ask what the nightmare was about. I never told her. I was too embarrassed.”
― Robin Stevenson, The World Without Us

“Cookie is like high five for stomach.”
― The Cookie Monster

“I'm sorry. It feels like the moment calls for some humor. You're ranting and dressed like Elmo.

The Cookie Monster.

Whatever, Rashid”
― Rion Amilcar Scott, Insurrections: Stories

“I felt like I had been run over by ‘Big Bird’ driving a London bus.”
― Adele Rose, Shattered

“I kept my identity to myself as soon as I found it. I had seen it before, in cartoon characters...Big Bird and the Brave Little Toaster. They didn't have to be a young girl or a young boy with dark insecurities and stigmatized daydreams. They could transcend ambiguously between boy, girl, hero, villain, martyr.”
― Cristy C. Road, Spit and Passion

“As a television show, and a good one, "Sesame Street" does not encourage children to love school or anything about school. It encourages them to love television.”
― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“I see the rhetorical question "Who Owns the Past?" so frequently used by humanities and social science professors to provoke classroom discussions as needlessly and erroneously planting the idea that a living group of people could "own the past." Surely, any such claim should be taken no more seriously than the cast of Sesame Street should they claim to "own the alphabet.”
― Timothy H. Ives, Stones of Contention