Kurt Vonnegut Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• Where is home? I've wondered where home is, and I realized, it's not Mars or someplace like that, it's Indianapolis when I was nine years old. I had a brother and a sister, a cat and a dog, and a mother and a father and uncles and aunts. And there's no way I can get there again.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Mother, Dog, Brother

  "The world according to Kurt". Interview with Simon Houpt, Globe and Mail (Toronto), October 11, 2005.

• Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Father, Self, Worry

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.70, Dial Press

• Fathers are always so proud the first time they see their sons in uniform," she said. "I know Big John Karpinski was," I said. He is my neighbor to the north, of course. Big John's son Little John did badly in high school, and the police caught him selling dope. So he joined the Army while the Vietnam War was going on. And the first time he came home in uniform, I never saw Big John so happy, because it looked to him as though Little John was all straightened out and would amount to something. But then Little John came home in a body bag.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Father, War, Home

  Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Bluebeard”, Dial Press

• I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still. Another thing they taught was that no one was ridiculous or bad or disgusting. Shortly before my father died, he said to me, ‘You know – you never wrote a story with a villain in it.’ I told him that was one of the things I learned in college after the war.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Father, War, Teaching

  KURT VONNEGUT JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE”

• Here was what Kilgore Trout cried out to me in my father's voice: "Make me young, make me young, make me young!

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Father, Voice, Trout

  Kurt Vonnegut (1973). “Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!”, Dell

• After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned to Father and said, 'Science has now known sin.' And do you know what Father said? He said, 'What is sin?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Father, Cities, America

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.17, Dial Press

• Terry Kitchen asked me one time why, since I had so few gifts as a husband and father, I had gotten married. And I heard myself say: "That's the way the post-war movie goes.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Husband, Father, War

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.223, Dial Press

• Son,' my father said to me, 'someday this will all be yours.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Father, Son, Someday

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Cat's Cradle: A Novel”, p.162, Dial Press

• My father said, ‘When in doubt, castle.’

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Father, Doubt, Castles

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.9, Seven Stories Press

• The thing my father was proudest of was the Ayres clock at the intersection of Washington Street and Meridian. That made him so happy. Ayres complained because he wouldn't send them a bill. There was stuff my family had done there - particularly my father and grandfather - that was quite permanent and wonderful.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Father, Done, Bills

• I wasn't aware of Ku Klux Klan as I was aware of the widespread assumption that African-Americans were dumber than white people. I think my father believed that. I think everybody white did.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Father, Thinking, Ku Klux Klan

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