Ken Jennings Quotes

When I was little, I would close my eyes and put my finger on a page. Then in my mind, I would go to that place.

At school, if I was ever bored in class, I would draw maps of islands or detailed interior of boats or lists of provisions and equipment I would need when I went camping in the summer.

I used to walk to school with my nose buried in a book.

I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.

I had an encyclopedia with a list of flags in the back, so I would look at all these flags of China and Liberia and England and Denmark and whatever, and I learned all the different flags, and I tried to imagine what it would be like to be voyaging on some of these ships.

The best way to enhance a child's imagination is to make them read.

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.

I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to.

Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.

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

Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.

I've always been fascinated and stared at maps for hours as a kid. I've especially been most intrigued by the uninhabited or lonelier places on the planet. Like Greenland, for instance, or just recently flying over Alaska and a chain of icy, mountainous islands, uninhabited.

Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird.

When I was in school, I used to look out the window and see the big red double-deck buses driving by. It just looked so free.

My earliest memory is aged three, seeing sunlight on water and feeling it was really magical.

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

Once you open the toy box they will play with the toys

Children live in a world filled with possibilities. Their thoughts roam without boundaries, like dreams – full of images, places and actions. Unlike adults, they can’t temper their imaginations with experience. So, when a child plays with a toy or reads a story, it becomes an adventure, a new reality to them.

There was a library near us in San Francisco. It was the West Portal Public Library. I would ask my father to drive me there at night and pick me up when it closed. I think he was worried about this routine but never let on. Also, I kept this a secret from my friends, as I don't think it would have been considered the 'coolest' habit.

You can't just keep telling a story the same way over and over again. And I think it only helps the world to be more honest with young kids, to show them the world that they go walk outside and see.