Being old Quote by Kurt Vonnegut Download Open image “I'm mad about being old and I'm mad about being American. Apart from that, OK.” — Kurt Vonnegut ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Being old Mad
Maybe something that amuses the Americans is that they are so worried about age, and I'm not at all. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
I'm sick of people imposing cultural references and influences on me, but I'm not sick of people talking about my age. — Xavier Dolan Copy Share Image
Age is not enviable in America. It's not applauded all that strongly. You have to take it all with a grain of salt. — Anjelica Huston Copy Share Image
The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America gone… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
I feel like old age in America is a very sad thing. I have been many different places around the world where getting older… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to age as ungracefully as I can in front of the nation. — Mike O'Malley Copy Share Image
There's an American idea that you want to look as young as you can for as long as you can. If you can be… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
“You must bloom as a writer and I must bloom as a painter. Everything else about us is uninteresting.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Have a good nap, did you?” said the porter. “Yes,” said Billy. “Man,” said the porter, “you sure had a hard-on.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain wrote in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Thomas Jefferson High School [..] His high school was named after a slave owner who was also one of the world’s greatest theoreticians on… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I had a certain amount of skill as a dramatist, and Dr. Goebbels wanted me to use it” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The town was Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A., Earth, Solar System, Milky Way.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Her face was one of a kind, a surprising variation that made observers think, Yes--that would be another very nice way for people to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“You finally fell in love, I see,” said Salo. “Only an Earthling year ago,” said Constant. “It took us that long to realize that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Like all Earthlings at the point of death, Mary Young sent faint reminders of herself to those who had known her. She released a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And contrast Mary Kathleen, if you will, with my wife Ruth, the Ophelia of the death camps, who believed that even the most intelligent… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Sometimes being young and confident is better than being old with experience...when I was young I wasn't scared about anything — Thierry Henry Copy Share Image
I think that I probably inevitably fetishize nature, although I try not to, because it's kind of embarrassing, repulsive behavior. I think it's just… — Phil Elvrum Copy Share Image
I so enjoy being old because for the first time I don't have to do anything-work, teach, study. I feel very good about myself-and… — Bel Kaufman Copy Share Image
Nor bird nor beast Could make me wish for anything this day, Being old, but that the old alone might die, And that would… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Being vintage like a fine wine Should make you proud of being old And being mature like a cheese Certainly explains the mould! Fester… — John Walter Bratton Copy Share Image
Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
Somehow, throughout much of life, being old seems to be something that happens to other people. — Maggie Scarf Copy Share Image
I like being old, even if the names I hear are more and more unfamiliar. Maybe, to paraphrase Goethe who said that, "Youth is… — Wolf Kahn Copy Share Image
the country of the aged is a land few people think very hard and seriously about before the time of life when they sense… — Maggie Scarf Copy Share Image