Kurt Vonnegut Quotes About Babies

Quotes about: Babies

• Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies - "God damn it, you've got to be kind."

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Summer, Baby, Hipster

  "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1965.

• There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Baby, Kindness, Be Kind

  FaceBook post by Kurt Vonnegut from Aug 27, 2014

• And I apologize to all of you who are the same age as my grandchildren. And many of you reading this are the same age as my grandchildren. They, like you, are being royally shafted and lied to by our Baby Boomer corporations and government.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Baby, Reading, Grandchildren

• Because of the movies nobody will believe that it was babies who fought the war.

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  Baby, War, Believe

  Kurt Vonnegut (1987). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, New York : Delacorte Press

• She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Baby, Slaughterhouse Five, Dull

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

• That's the point. Every kind of animal thinks its own kind of animal is wonderful. So people getting married think they're wonderful, and that they're going to have a baby-- that's wonderful, when actually they're as ugly as rhinoceroses. Just because we think we're so wonderful doesn't mean we really are. We could be really terrible animals and just never admit it because it would hurt so much.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Baby, Hurt, Mean

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “Hocus Pocus”, p.41, Random House

• You know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. "'My God, my God — ' I said to myself, 'It's the Children's Crusade.

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  Baby, Children, War

  Slaughterhouse-Five ch. 5 (1969)

• For some people, getting pregnant is as easy as catching cold." And there certainly was an analogy there: Colds and babies were both caused by germs which loved nothing so much as a mucous membrane.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Baby, People, Analogies

• Even as I speak, the very last polar bear may be dying of hunger on account of climate change, on account of us. And I sure miss the polar bears. Their babies are so warm and cuddly and trusting, just like ours.

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  Baby, Missing, Dying

  Kurt Vonnegut (2008). “Armageddon in Retrospect”, p.23, Penguin

• Billy Pilgrim says that the Universe does not look like a lot of bright little dots to the creatures from Tralfamadore. The creatures can see where each star has been and where it is going, so that the heavens are filled with rarefied, luminous spaghetti. And Tralfamadorians don't see human beings as two-legged creatures, either. They see them as great millepedes - "with babies' legs at one end and old people's legs at the other," says Billy Pilgrim.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Baby, Stars, Two

  Kurt Vonnegut (1969). “Slaughterhouse-five: or, The children's crusade, a duty-dance with death”

• Where men had once howled and hacked at one another, and fought nip-and-tuck with nature as well, the machines hummed and whirred and clicked, and made parts for baby carriages and bottle caps, motorcycles and refrigerators, television sets and tricycles-the fruits of peace.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Baby, Peace, Men

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Player Piano”, p.3, Dial Press

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