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Children Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- But some of the nonsense was evil, since it concealed great crimes. For example, teachers of children in the United States of America wrote this…
- Children get smashed for hours on some strictly limited aspect of the Great Big Everything, the Universe, such as water or snow or mud or…
- 1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on…
- He was talking about the sign that said 'THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE.' 'All knew was that I didn't want my daughter or anybody's child…
- If I was ever to have a child, this is what I'd tell it: 'Child,' I'd say, 'don't never mess with time. Keep now now…
- 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…
- I'm wild again, beguiled again, a whimpering, simpering child again. Bewitched, bothered, bewildered am I.
- Socialism" is no more an evil word than "Christianity." Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches than Christianity prescribed…
- Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive.
- The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.
- I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor and our everlasting…
More Children Quotes
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The… — David Attenborough
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
- I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in… — Margaret Atwood
- The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon