Parenting Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Ting-a-ling mother fucker.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“my father said, "when in dount, castle”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was dieased”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Whenever my children complain about the planet to me, I say 'Shut up, I just got here myself'.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Screw you, Jasper,” said Castle mildly, “and screw Mother’s Day and Christmas, too.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“His mother was incinerated in the Dresden fire-storm. So it goes.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Sordid things, for the most part, are what make human beings, my father included, move. That's what it is to be human,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Terry Kitchen asked me one time why, since I had so few gifts as a husband and father, I had gotten married.…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I identified a basic mistake my parents had made about life: They thought that it would be very wrong if anybody ever…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Mother cooked a big breakfast. And then, when she cleared off the table, she found a quarter and a dime and three…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I was raised by a black maid by the name of Ida Young and I probably talked to her more than anybody,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Samuel became even more interested in politics than his father had been, served the Republican Party tirelessly as a king-maker, caused that…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“This is something about your father?' 'This is something about you ." Frank put his hand on my shoulder and he looked…

— Kurt Vonnegut

This had been going on at Shortridge since 1906. My parents had also worked on the Shortridge Daily Echo. The way it…

— Kurt Vonnegut

After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb,…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“That was how a household as contradictory as one composed of Hones, Father Keeley, Vice-Bundesfueher Krapptauer, and the Black Fuehrer could exist…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrased and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The doctors agreed: He was going crazy...they didn't think it had anything to do with the war. They were sure Billy was…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“They didn't think it had anything to do with the war. They were sure Billy was going to pieces because his father…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“For many years I was the principal companion of my mother. She was a beautiful, talented, morbid person. I think she was…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Well finish your story anyway." Where was I?" The bubonic plague. The bulldozer was stalled by corpses." Oh, yes. Anyway, one sleepless…

— Kurt Vonnegut

If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Yes, and our sister's sons are candid now about a creepy business which used to worry them a lot: They cannot find…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I am reminded of one of my father’s novels, The Era of Hopeful Monsters. It was about a planet where the humanoids…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Billy covered his head with his blanket. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the mental…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“A lot of the nonsense was the innocent result of playfulness on the part of the founding fathers of the nation of…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Your parents were fighting machines and self-pitying machines. Your mother was programmed to bawl out your father for being a defective moneymaking…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“My mother scared herself with her own queerness, and from that moment on I ceased to be her companion.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Someday son all this will be yours. Father and son atop a garbage dump.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don’t have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“That there are such devices as firearms, as easy to operate as cigarette lighters and as cheap as toasters, capable at anybody's…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The thing my father was proudest of was the Ayres clock at the intersection of Washington Street and Meridian. That made him…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“My mother isn’t mentioned, but what she taught me to say in place of ain’t I? or aren’t I? or ain’t I?…

— Kurt Vonnegut