“Weird behavior is natural in smart children, like curiosity is to a kitten.”
Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
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Raymond Chandler book The Lady in the Lake
Source: The Lady in the Lake (1943), chapter 1
Context: The little blonde at the PBX cocked a shell-like ear and smiled a small fluffy smile. She looked playful and eager, but not quite sure of herself, like a new kitten in a house where they don't care much about kittens.
“Made weird children--will die proud. - Rachel Pealer”
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“I like the name Atomic Kitten. It's so great.”
Bryan Ferry (1945) English musician
Source: http://www.nyrock.com/interviews/2002/ferry2_int.asp, An interview with Bryan Ferry, nyrock, December 2002
“Curiosity should be as carefully cherish'd in children, as other appetites suppress'd.”
John Locke book Some Thoughts Concerning Education
Sec. 108
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
Context: They should always be heard, and fairly and kindly answer'd, when they ask after any thing they would know, and desire to be informed about. Curiosity should be as carefully cherish'd in children, as other appetites suppress'd.
“Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.”
Freya Stark (1893–1993) British explorer and writer
“Babies are like kittens, Julie, they grow into something much more sinister.”
James K. Morrow book Only Begotten Daughter
Source: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 15 (p. 258)
“I want to see what is there in the heart! Natural curiosity!”
Laxmi Prasad Devkota (1909–1959) Nepali poet
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