Life Through The Eyes Of A Child

Because sometimes, it's easy to forget what we thought of the world when we were seven or eight…

"One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child".

Randall Jarrell said it in 1965, and it's still true today. So just in case we sometimes forget, here's an insight into life through the eyes of a child. All of these enlightening quotes came out in essays, exams and classroom discussions. We hope they all got full marks!

- Question: What is one horsepower? Answer: One horsepower is the amount of energy it takes to drag a horse 500 feet in one second.

- You can listen to thunder after lightening and tell how close you came to getting hit. If you don't hear it you got hit, so never mind.

- Talc is found on rocks and on babies.

- The law of gravity says no fair jumping up without coming back down.

- When they broke open molecules, they found they were only stuffed with atoms. But when they broke open atoms, they found them stuffed with explosions.

- When people run around and around in circles we say they are crazy. When planets do it we say they are orbiting.

- Rainbows are just to look at, not to really understand.

- While the earth seems to be knowingly keeping its distance from the sun, it is really only centrificating.

- Someday we may discover how to make magnets that can point in any direction.

- South America has cold summers and hot winters, but somehow they still manage.

- Most books now say our sun is a star. But it still knows how to change back into a sun in the daytime.

- Water freezes at 32 degrees and boils at 212 degrees. There are 180 degrees between freezing and boiling because there are 180 degrees between north and south.

- A vibration is a motion that cannot make up its mind which way it wants to go.

- There are 26 vitamins in all, but some of the letters are yet to be discovered. Finding them all means living forever.

- There is a tremendous weight pushing down on the center of the Earth because of so much population stomping around up there these days.

- Lime is a green-tasting rock.

- Many dead animals in the past changed to fossils while others preferred to be oil.

- Genetics explain why you look like your father and if you don't why you should.

- Vacuums are nothings. We only mention them to let them know we know they're there.

- Some oxygen molecules help fires burn while others help make water, so sometimes it's brother against brother.

- Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun. But I have never been able to make out the numbers.

- We say the cause of perfume disappearing is evaporation. Evaporation gets blamed for a lot of things people forget to put the top on.

- To most people solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists solutions are things that are still all mixed up.

- In looking at a drop of water under a microscope, we find there are twice as many H's as O's.

- Clouds are high flying fogs.

- I am not sure how clouds get formed. But the clouds know how to do it, and that is the important thing.

- Clouds just keep circling the earth around and around. And around. There is not much else to do.

- Water vapor gets together in a cloud. When it is big enough to be called a drop, it does.

- Humidity is the experience of looking for air and finding water.

- We keep track of the humidity in the air so we won't drown when we breathe.

- Rain is often known as soft water, oppositely known as hail.

- Rain is saved up in cloud banks.

- In some rocks you can find the fossil footprints of fishes.

- Cyanide is so poisonous that one drop of it on a dogs tongue will kill the strongest man.

- A blizzard is when it snows sideways.

- A hurricane is a breeze of a bigly size.

- A monsoon is a French gentleman.

- Thunder is a rich source of loudness.

- Isotherms and isobars are even more important than their names sound.

- It is so hot in some places that the people there have to live in other places.

- The wind is like the air, only pushier.

Friday, 25 August 2006

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