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Years Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round & wet & crowded. At the outside, babies,…
- 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…
- I'd like to teach Iraq about Democracy because we're so experienced with it. First they should know that after 100 years they should free their…
- Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan.
- 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…
- Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would…
- What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity.
- I'm eighty-three and homeless. It was the same when World War II ended. The Army kept me on because I could type, so I was…
- The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.
- 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…
- The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?" It doesn't…
- How subservient to Jesus, or to a humane God Almighty, were the leaders of this country back in the 1840's, when Marx said such a…
- The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright dangerous. That idea…
- During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that…
- He had supposed for years that he had no secrets from himself. Here was proof that he had a great big secret somewhere inside, and…
- The Population Reference Bureau predicts that the world's total population will double to 7,000,000,000 before the year 2000. I suppose they will all want dignity,…
- I didn't know then what a sperm was, and so wouldn't understand his answer for several years. "My boy," he said, "you are descended from…
- If a person survives an ordinary span of sixty years or more, there is every chance that his or her life as a shapely story…
- Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: "Just say no.
- He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years…
- The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks but the wind-up kind too. The second hand…
- It pains me even now, even a million years later, to write about such human misbehaviour. A million years later, I feel like apologizing for…
- All these years, I've been opening the window and making love to the world.
- I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone. I get drunk, and I drive my wife away with a breath…
- I have wanted to give Iraq a lesson in democracy - because we're experienced with it, you know. And, in democracy, after a hundred years,…
More Years Quotes
- I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento
- Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines.… — Benigno Aquino III
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put… — Lance Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude. — Desi Arnaz