William P. Young Quotes

We should always do something that makes us feel like a child again. Keep learning, no matter what it is.

I always love writing about children.

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.'

Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.

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.

Children astound me with their inquisitive minds. The world is wide and mysterious to them, and as they piece together the puzzle of life, they ask 'Why?' ceaselessly.

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.

What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.'

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

Children are so creative and imaginative that they just bring you to life all over again.

Kids can amuse themselves with almost anything.

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 pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

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

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

Even today, I am still very child-like while designing. It's a bit like Christmas - each of your designs you create is like unravelling your presents.

What inspires me? I am so inspired every day. I am inspired by thinkers. I am inspired by rebellion. I am inspired by children. I have been inspired by love.

At a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

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

I adore kids. I enjoy everything that they bring to the party. They just say what they think.

Children are wonderful!

When I was 15, I still liked climbing trees and hiding in cupboards.

I wrote a children's book because children have the most open minds. They are the people who really want to learn.