“The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.” — Rebecca Pepper Sinkler Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I acted like child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things. — Shane Smith Copy Share Image
They do horrible, unchildish things because they they have had very horrible, unchildish lives. — Edward Humes Copy Share Image
If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“The ancient wisdoms are modern nonsenses. Live in your own time, use what we know, and as you grow up, perhaps the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“We were still children, for all that we thought we weren’t. We were in that in-between place, the twilight between childish things… — Christina Henry Copy Share Image
Its a time when you gotta push the childish things aside & realize it happened but its over now & keep right on living. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The onset of adulthood is an organic, creeping process. No one wakes up one day and decides, 'Lo, on this day I… — David Carr Copy Share Image
Whereas when I was a teenager, other teenagers didn't want anything to do with me. It was even like that in college… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
I do think it's good to remember that childish things are made for children, and that, however pleasantly lurid the promise of… — Lauren Faust Copy Share Image
“People who are detained (held in prison) are locked up by their past, and because you are locked up by your past… — Rev. Earl Smith Copy Share Image
When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“On Three Ways of Writing for Children”: When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
There comes a time in life where you will become and adult so that means it'll be a time to push away… — Telisa McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“And the dark night of flow is an issue that society has not made particularly easy to handle. How many people have… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
“Jane wondered...When the girl was not cleaning her suite, which wouldn't take much time, and when she was not making her meals,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I am often accused of being childish. I prefer to interpret that as child-like. I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things.… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When I was a little girl, everything in the world fell into either of these two categories: wrong or right. Black or… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5 does not act… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
To make someone feel like their life is unimportant, That there life holds less to no value, nothing to live for, is… — Bambii Copy Share Image
I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things. — Brian Baumgartner Copy Share Image
“When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away… — Emma Chase Copy Share Image
Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“One finds pleasure in childish enough things, and it is too bad to destroy such a pleasure when, by simply leaving it… — Alexandre Dumas fils Copy Share Image
When I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from France and Japan. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“All that helter-skelter about strings and memories was only relevant in the dark. It was light out now and time to put… — Benjamin Brindise Copy Share Image
Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. ... I must be scientific. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age The child is grown, and puts away childish… — Edna St Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
