Quotes About Curiosity

Never mind. Little girls shouldn't ask questions." 'Now if there is anything mortifying to our feelings when we are young, it is to be told that, and to be bidden to "run away, dear" is still more trying to us.

Jo examined the work of art nearest her, idly wondering what fortuitous concatenation of circumstances needed the melodramatic illustration of an Indian in full war costume, tumbling over a precipice with a wolf at his throat, while two infuriated young gentlemen, with unnaturally small feet and big eyes, were stabbing each other close by, and a disheveled female was flying away in the background

Let's hear the sound of the baby pianny.

He was tired of books, and found people so interesting now

There's mischief going on, and I insist upon knowing what it is.

Don't you wish you could take a look forward and see where we shall all be then? I do," returned Laurie. "I think not, for I might see something sad, and everyone looks so happy now

Dear, how charming! I hope I shall go abroad some day, but I'd rather go to Rome than the row, said Amy, who had not the remotest idea what the Row was and wouldn't have asked for the world.

A fat easy gentleman gave me several bits of paper, with coupons attached, with a warning not to separate them which instantly inspired me with a yearning to pluck them apart, and see what came of it.

Kate looked surprised, but said nothing and stood looking at the fire as if turning the matter over in her mind and trying to answer the question she was too polite to ask—how could they have a grandmother and know so little about her?

I seldom ask questions of men, as they are not fond of gossip.

something very splendid. What it was, she had no idea as yet, but

Now Demi, tell me where you keep your mind? ... he answered in a tone of calm conviction, In my little belly

Aunt March received them with her usual hospitality. What do you want now? she asked

And Maud's face brightened: for destructiveness is one of the earliest traits of childhood, and ripping was Maud's delight.

When we're young, we think we are the only species worth knowing. But the more I come to know people, the better I like ravens.

I want to see the story. More than anything, I am frustrated by the fact that I'll never know how things turn out.

Watching him closely after he paid for the books and took the package into his hands, I saw his pupils dilate the way a diner's do when food is brought to the table.

Did he like celery?' 'Does anybody?

Pierpont "will probably not think of asking us.

Since he was seldom seen, people often wondered about his whereabouts.

I shudder to think of what I should have been if I had remained in Richford all my life," he later confided.

What set Tarbell apart from Rockefeller was her intellectual daring and fearless curiosity.

Is it possible that is not known?

Gates was always mystified by Morgan's success.