Age Quote by Anthony Hecht

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

— Max Muller

We've always been fans of a good mystery; we think all kids are, and there weren't any good mysteries out there these days for…

— Mary-Kate Olsen

Children are notoriously curious about everything, everything except... the things people want them to know. It then remains for us to refrain from forcing…

— Floyd Dell

In reality, childhood is deep and rich. It's vital, mysterious, and profound. I remember my OWN childhood vividly; I knew terrible things, but I…

— Art Spiegelman

Kids are born curious about the world. What adults primarily do in the presence of kids is unwittingly thwart the curiosity of children.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Our great problem, is that children now know whatever they want to know - at the press of a button they can discover all…

— Michael Morpurgo

Why do grown-ups think it's easier for children to bear secrets than the truth? Don't they know about the horror stories we imagine to…

— Cornelia Funke

Children sometimes understand things that most grown-ups do not see.

— Jonathan Kozol

The idea that certain things in life - and in the universe - don't yield up their secrets is something that requires a slightly…

— Samuel R. Delany

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

— Jonathan Kozol

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

— Simon Van Booy

Children know something that most people have forgotten.

— Keith Haring