Philip Roth Quotes

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

Young children have no sense of wonder. They bewilder well, but few things surprise them. All of it is new to young children, after all, and equally gratuitous.

I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child.

The eyes of childhood are magnifying lenses.

What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?

The world is so different for a child, waking in the mornings, wide-eyed and ready to take it all in.

The problem is not scientifically illiterate kids; it is scientifically illiterate adults. Kids are born curious about the natural world. They are always turning over rocks, jumping with two feet into mud puddles and playing with the tablecloth and fine china.

I adore kids. I enjoy everything that they bring to the party. They just say what they think.

As the most recently arrived to earthly life, children can seem in lingering possession of some heavenly lidless eye.

Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.

I think one of the reasons we have children is to believe everything all over again. And I'm not talking Santa, here, either.

While we are born with curiosity and wonder and our early years full of the adventure they bring, I know such inherent joys are often lost. I also know that, being deep within us, their latent glow can be fanned to flame again by awareness and an open mind.

I believe that part of what propels science is the thirst for wonder. It's a very powerful emotion. All children feel it. In a first grade classroom everybody feels it; in a twelfth grade classroom almost nobody feels it, or at least acknowledges it. Something happens between first and twelfth grade, and it's not just puberty. Not only do the schools and the media not teach much skepticism, there is also little encouragement of this stirring sense of wonder. Science and pseudoscience both arouse that feeling. Poor popularizations of science establish an ecological niche for pseudoscience.

Kids are curious.Kids are watching ants while adults are stepping on them.

Come on back and we’ll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure in belief and thus afraid of the dark.

Children offer the finest expressions of openness and flexibility. They play and laugh freely, and find wonder in the smallest things.

Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.

As long as we are children, we have the ability to experience things around us--but then we grow used to the world. To grow up is to get drunk on sensory experience.

Children can ask what adults don't dare to because we don't want to admit we're scared and we don't really want to hear the answers.

A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement.

When I was a kid my parents used to tell me, "Emo, don't go near the cellar door!" One day when they were away, I went up to the cellar door. And I pushed it and walked through and saw strange, wonderful things, things I had never seen before, like... trees. Grass. Flowers. The sun... that was nice... the sun.

As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open... Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity.

What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?

How sad if we pass through life and never see it with the eyes of a child.