Emo Philips Quotes

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

Something that's very important is to preserve the sense of surprise, the sense of discovery. The eye of the person you are talking to, your shadow on the ground. It's important not to get suffocated by all the things in life and lose that sense of surprise.

I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind.

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

When we're born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises.

There was a lot of beauty in my childhoood.

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.

You learn a lot as a kid, like you don't know anything. I didn't know what was gonna happen if I opened the door. I thought I was gonna be in another world somehow.

I had to try to figure out what it would be like to do things for the first time, almost as if you're a child.

Only the children know what they are looking for.

Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.

I don't care what town you're born in, what city, what country. If you're a child, you are curious about your environment. You're overturning rocks. You're plucking leaves off of trees and petals off of flowers, looking inside, and you're doing things that create disorder in the lives of the adults around you.

I just want pieces of the world.

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

Predictability is boring! I want a book to take me someplace I haven't been before, show me sights I haven't seen, make me ponder questions I may not have pondered before.

When I was young, I was everywhere.

There is a child inside me that wants to come out and do something to surprise all the adults.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

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

If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.

I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.

The child who has no need to feign empirical knowledge about life can wonder and fantasise with great ease. The world is his oyster, or any other thing he wants it to be.

Kids will remind you that, even though you've gone down a road 100 times, it's brand new for them - and that's healthy.

I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them.

I'm still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it.