Curious Child Quotes

#1. Once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.

Lewis Carroll

#2. Night is a curious child, wandering
Between earth and sky, creeping
In windows and doors, daubing
The entire neighborhood
With purple paint.

Frank Marshall Davis

#3. Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

John Bradshaw

#4. Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it.

Shakti Gawain

#5. Looking back on months and years of intimacy, to feel that your friend, while you still remember the moving words you exchanged, is yet growing distant and living in a world apart - all this is sadder far than partings brought by death.

Yoshida Kenko

#6. The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one's own style and creatively adjust this to one's author.

Paul Goodman

#7. There are different levels of scripting that we all use; I think I'm the most improvised of the three, and probably Andrew's the most written. But all of that is in pursuit of similar things, and I think that we kind of recognize that in each other.

Joe Swanberg

#8. I am - since I was a child - curious about everything. I like to look at how things work and why people are the way they are.

Lela Loren

#9. A masterpiece produced by an indecipherable cocktail of races, Kolovas-Jones's skin was

Robert Galbraith

#10. Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.

Thomas Traherne

#11. I was an independent developer and started Junction Point in January of 2005.

Warren Spector

#12. Anyone who doesn't belive in Faeries, isn't worth knowing.

Tori Amos

#13. The brunette was conducting tests on the collected blood when the older woman came into her laboratory to get the child's photo. The old woman took the picture to a pale-skinned woman with red hair, who in turn fixed it with a morbidly curious look before handing it back.

R.G. Richards

#14. When a child reaches puberty, parents become so curious about their sex lives and whereabouts, put them behind bars to their own detriment. When such a child breaks free, don't be surprised to see him/her in porn movies.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#15. I'm Italian; I take my time. We're not really fast. We're very slow. I had my first child at 40, my second child at 45, James Bond at 50. I'm so curious as to what's next!

Monica Bellucci

#16. When I was a child, kids used to make fun of me because I was blind. But I just became more curious, 'How can I climb this tree and get an apple for this girl?' That's what mattered to me.

Stevie Wonder

#17. Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.

Saint Augustine

#18. I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue.

William Shakespeare

#19. Our job as writers is to be as curious as a child, to see things for the first time, and to never assume. We must always be willing to surrender our idea of the story to allow the larger story to emerge. We are seeking to understand the nature of things, the underlying forces at work.

Alan Watt

#20. Now the woman, she was another story. Her instinct was strong. She had sensed the darkness. But she was curious. Afraid. Soon she would return, because she had to. All she had to do was lift the lid. It would dispose of her in a little while. Once night had fallen. All it wanted was the child.

Beverley Lee

#21. When I play, what I see are people who mean something to me, both positively and negatively. It's my private life, in a way, what I see, and this is what I share.

Igor Levit

#22. in a curious and unanticipated way, we really do welcome the birth of our child. There

Adrienne Rich

#23. In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you'd be off mike and off camera.

Harry Shearer

#24. Treaties you see are like girls and roses; they last while they last.

Charles De Gaulle

#25. I'm just curious, who's more fit to raise a child? A loving committed same-sex couple or an unmarried 15-year-old with no income and really no skills to parent?

Ellen Barkin

#26. One night when we were lying under the stars together she pointed to this beaming bright star beside the moon and said wherever she was in the world, whether we were together or apart, that I should remember her with that star because it would always be there-that it was her with me.

Rebecah McManus