Ari Graynor Quotes

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

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.

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

The eyes of childhood are magnifying lenses.

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.

Curiosity might have killed the cat, but little girls usually fared much better.

Only the children know what they are looking for.

When I was a child... I was watching a snowstorm, and hopefully asked, 'Momma, do we believe in winter?'

What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?

In its natural state, the child tells the literal truth because it is too naive to think of anything else. Blurting out the complete truth is considered adorable in the young, right smack up to the moment that the child says, 'Mommy, is this the fat lady you can't stand?

If I had influence with the good fairy... I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.

Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.

Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are hurt, we learned not to trust.

Like I tell people they wind up having short term pleasure and long term pain. I'm a tell what Minister Louis Farrakhan said, "Black people ain't poor, they just don't spend wisely" and that's the truth.

He was trapped in the electrochemical web of cognition, wherein curiosity leads into temptation, temptation leads into fear, and fear is considered an impulse to be mastered.

In reality, we are still children. We want to find a playmate for our thoughts and feelings.

The challenge of manners is not so much to be nice to someone whose favor and/or person you covet (although more people need to be reminded of that necessity than one would suppose) as to be exposed to the bad manners of others without imitating them.

It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.

The most magical moments for me come from the little ones in elementary school. They ask adorable and meaningful questions.

Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.

Young children give us glimpses of some things that are eternal.

The way a child discovers the world constantly replicates the way science began. You start to notice what's around you, and you get very curious about how things work. How things interrelate. It's as simple as seeing a bug that intrigues you. You want to know where it goes at night; who its friends are; what it eats.

Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?

Children are the closest we have to wisdom and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.