Phylicia Rashad Quotes

By not going to school I learned that the world is a beautiful place and needs to be discovered.

Kids can amuse themselves with almost anything.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

When you are young, you just want to play as many games as you can.

Kids are curious, and if you don't lose that, then everything is an adventure.

I never liked dolls or played house. I read and wrote, climbed trees, collected rocks, rode my bike, and befriended boys, platonically.

I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while.

As a boy, I didn't need a lot of playmates to have a good time.

There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can be. And to me, they are that. These are places that open doors into other worlds if only you're open to them.

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

One of the greatest gifts my brother and I received from my mother was her love of literature and language. With their boundless energy, libraries open the door to these worlds and so many others. I urge young and old alike to embrace all that libraries have to offer.

No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.

Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.

The human capacity to be curious has always existed.

Sometimes random things that you wouldn't think mean anything mean so much to them. With kids, you can say, 'Let's go pick some flowers' or 'There's a snail. Let's investigate that.'

And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.

In school, I could hear the leaves rustle and go on a journey.

Kids need stuff which is different than what their life is that they can kind of live through.

Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.

I have a perfect life where I read; I go out into the wilderness and camp. I meet scientists and learn about their studies of wild animals, and then I come home... and start creating the world I have seen.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.