Kurt Vonnegut Quotes About High School

Quotes about: High School

• True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Funny, Running, Country

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.88, RosettaBooks

• Roses are red, And ready for plucking, You're sixteen, And ready for high school.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  School, Rose, Sixteen

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Breakfast of Champions: Or, Goodbye Blue Monday!”, CNIB, 197

• Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  School, Nuts, Class

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.102, Seven Stories 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

• Billy covered his head with his blanket. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the mental ward - always got much sicker until she went away. It wasn’t that she was ugly, or had bad breath or a bad personality. She was a perfectly nice, standard-issue, brown-haired, white woman with a high school education. She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone through so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn’t really like life at all.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Mother, Nice, School

• I hope that my ideas attract a lively dialogue, even if my sentences are simple. Simple sentences have always served me well. And I don't use semicolons. It's hard to read anyway, especially for high school kids. Also, I avoid irony, too. I don't like people saying one thing and meaning the other.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  School, Kids, Simple

  Source: www.mcsweeneys.net

• I went to high school in Indianapolis I learned how to walk around looking tough because everybody had to do that. I go out there occasionally and they're still doing it, walking around looking very tough because something might happen.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  School, Might, Tough

• This had been going on at Shortridge since 1906. My parents had also worked on the Shortridge Daily Echo. The way it came into being was that when they built Shortridge High School, they had a vocational department and they had a print shop.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  School, Echoes, Parent

• Shortridge High School was an elitist high school. In a way it was a scandal because you could go there no matter where you lived, if you could get there. It was for over-achievers. It was for people who were going to college. So we were very special and we were hated for being ritzy.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  School, College, People

• In those days great teachers at Shortridge [High School] were celebrities. I would look up to them.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Teacher, School, Looks

• High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  School, Thinking, Experience

  Kurt Vonnegut (2012). “Kurt Vonnegut: Letters”, p.1964, Random House

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