Kurt Vonnegut Quotes About School

Quotes about: 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

• Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  School, Want, Socialism

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.50, RosettaBooks

• The only thing I ever learned was that some people are lucky and other people aren't and not even a graduate of the Harvard Business School can say why.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  School, People, Luck

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “The Sirens of Titan: An Original Novel”, Laurel

• One thing I learned, with permission of the school committee of Indianapolis, was that when a tyrant or a government gets in trouble it wonders what to do. Declare war! Then nothing else matters. It's like chess; when in doubt, castle.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  War, School, Government

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. June 12, 2003.

• 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

• What's going to happen is, very soon, we're going to run out of petroleum, and everything depends on petroleum. And there go the school buses. There go the fire engines. The food trucks will come to a halt. This is the end of the world.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Running, School, Fire

• 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 myself grew up when radio was very important. I'd come home from school and turn on the radio. There were funny comedians and wonderful music, and there were plays. I used to pass time with radio.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Home, School, Play

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations”, p.138, Melville House

• 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

• We used to have superb public schools. I guess we don't anymore, but, boy, the public schools were really something and I am a product of those in Indianapolis.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  School, Boys, Used

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

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  School, Thinking, Experience

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

• One of [ways being lucky] was to go to school during the Great Depression because teaching became a plum job.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Jobs, Teaching, School

• 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

• 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

• 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

• One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a living.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Art, Hate, School

  Source: artisticactivism.org

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

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Teacher, School, Looks

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