Quotes About Curiosity

confused begging of some philosophical question

Doesn't every kid want to dig a hold to China? Didn't you? What about Chinese children?

Who's Mary Bopkins? asked Mrs. Jewls. Was she famous? Why? asked Miss Zarves. Does your class only study famous people? Do you think famous people are more important than people who aren't famous?

Christopher Columbus's favorite vegetable?" asked the lunch lady. Deedee knew that one. "Cabbage!

Is your last name your first name backward? Zero asked. Stanley stared at him in amazement. Had he been working on that all night?

Mugworm Griblick

Miss Nogard?

Perhaps it's understandable to be more jaded on one's second exposure to something strange.

I like adventures, and I'm going to find some.

and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.

freedom being the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul.

Her beauty satisfied [his] artistic eye, her peculiarities piqued his curiosity, her vivacity lightened his ennui, and her character interested him by the unconscious hints it gave of power, pride and passion. So entirely natural and unconventional was she that he soon found himself on a familiar footing, asking all manner of unusual questions, and receiving rather piquant replies.

I don't like to doze by the fire. I like adventures, and I'm going to find some.

The moment Aunt March took her nap, or was busy with company, Jo hurried to this quiet place, and curling herself up in the easy chair, devoured poetry, romance, history, travels, and pictures like a regular bookworm.

Mac looked up with the oddest of all his odd expressions

Children should be children as long as they can

If he is old enough to ask the questions he is old enough to receive true answers. I am not putting the thoughts into his head, but helping him unfold those already there.

misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck.

That boy is a perfect cyclops, isn't he? said Amy one day, as Laurie clattered by on horseback, with a flourish of his whip as he passed.

Jo knew nothing about philosophy or metaphysics of any sort, but a curious excitement, half pleasurable, half painful, came over her, as she listened with a sense of being turned adrift into time and space, like a young balloon out on a holiday.

Si tiene edad para plantear la pregunta, tiene edad para escuchar la respuesta

Oh, that is the surprise. It's so lovely, I pity you because you don't know it…

To Jo's lively fancy, this fine house seemed a kind of enchanted palace, full of splendors and delights which no one enjoyed. She had long wanted to behold these hidden glories, and to know the Laurence boy, who looked as if he would like to be known, if he only ever knew how to begin.

We'll never draw that curtain any more, and I give you leave to look as much as you like. I just wish, though, instead of peeping, you'd come over and see us.