Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

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

Kurt Vonnegut

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• Around a third of parents still worry that they will look like a bad mother or father if their child has a mental health problem. Parenting is hard enough without letting prejudices stop us from asking for the help we need for ourselves and our children.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Children
  • Bad
  • Help

• Something like your parents divorcing never quite leaves you. What you thought was real isn't real anymore, and that changes your perspective. It makes you more wary but also means you are better equipped to deal with challenges.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • Real
  • Parents
  • Perspective

• I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us.

  

  Natasha Tsakos
  • People
  • Kids
  • Parents

• I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Kids
  • Friends
  • Parents

• When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • House
  • Parents
  • Man

• I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don't get homesick.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Experience
  • Parents
  • Travel

• I'd never put all my chips anywhere, because I don't want to close any doors, but I was raised in a very blue-collar family. I was raised by parents who said, 'If you don't go to work every day, you're not contributing', so that's my mentality. I have to work every day; I have to bring home a paycheck.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Work
  • Family
  • Home

• I majored in political science and English, but starting from the age of 17, I've paid for everything that I've had in my life. It was a personal choice. My parents would have helped me in any way whatsoever, but for me, you know what? I can make my own way.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Life
  • Age
  • Parents

• According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life.

  

  Questlove
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Dad

• My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Parents
  • Kid
  • Mature

• Because my parents are Indian, everybody speaks Hindi to me, and I have no idea what they are saying.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Parents
  • Idea
  • Saying

• It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • Parents
  • Faith
  • Religious

• So the proposition that the ideal parents for any child are its biological parents is a statement with which we can all agree in the generality, but which does not apply, for one reason or another, in many particular circumstances.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Parents
  • Reason
  • Child

• My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Parents
  • Loving
  • Were

• Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realise that my parents were brilliant, not for what they did, but more for what they didn't do.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Parents
  • Lives
  • Brilliant

• Even my parents are so cute, and they deal with every movie of mine excellently. They check with me ever so casually by asking 'Now how much of nudity are we going to see in this one?'

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • Movie
  • Parents
  • Cute

• Though I made my share of mistakes, as all parents do, I was devoted to my kids. I walked them to school every morning and walked back to pick them up at 3.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Up
  • School
  • Kids

• My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Parents
  • Actor
  • Director

• It is clear from the reaction to our campaign so far that our message is resonating. I look forward to continuing to take this message to all Americans, and showing them that I can be as successful running the country as I was running the state of New Mexico.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Country
  • Running
  • Look

• Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Men
  • Black

• Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success of positive gay images.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Believe
  • Success
  • Culture

• Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so. Those stories don't interest me that much as a general thing.

  

  Jim Woodring
  • Life
  • Up
  • Job

• If you look back at when things like tablets and smartphones were first invented, or the Newton at Apple, that was the first attempt at VR. We didn't even have 3D GPUS, or were just getting them.

  

  Brendan Iribe

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

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Parents