Children Quote by Lisa Alther

Madam: If you discover any more comets, can you not wait until they are announced by the proper authorities?

— George Phillips Bond

I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter.

— Maria Mitchell

“Comets are like cats: they have tails, and they do precisely what they want.”

— David H. Levy

“It is a remarkable question- Do all the wonderful things happen when we are not aware of them? I shake my head. Technically, the…

— Jodi Picoult

I've often thought there ought to be a manual to hand to little kids, telling them what kind of planet they're on, why they…

— Kurt Vonnegut

My dad's a physicist and had a key to the St Andrew's observatory, and we used to pop down to see Halley's Comet and…

— KT Tunstall

It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.

— Albert Einstein

“Kids don't come with instructions. We all mess up. Raising a child is pure impromptu.”

— Harlan Coben

NASA has hit a comet with an impactor, during the Deep Impact mission. The goal of that mission was to study the surface by…

— Carrie Nugent

We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and…

— Mark Twain

Parents should be vigilant and spiritually attentive to spontaneously occurring opportunities to bear testimony to their children. Such occasions need not be programmed, scheduled,…

— David A. Bednar

“Nobody had ever even stepped out onto the surface, she read in school, leading to a broken line of memorable first statements. “That’s one…

— Ari Bach