Childlike Quotes · Page 3

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I became disconnected from the childlike play that art could be. I spent so much time fearing I wasn't good enough that…

— Elisabeth Shue

There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it.

— Franz Kafka

When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of…

— Kate Bernheimer

You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?'

— Christopher Meloni

Teach me. Lord, my true condition; Bring me childlike to Thy knee; Stripped of every low ambition, Willing to be led by…

— Henry Francis Lyte

Develop a childlike fascination with life and people.

— Jim Rohn

I've kept alive my childlike innocence. I don't let anything or anyone dampen my zest for life. Now, that's very important.

— Mumtaz

There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lovers enter the habits of…

— Michael Ondaatje

The child who would be an adult must give up any lingering childlike sense of parental power, either the magical ability to…

— Frank Pittman

The 'feminine' woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her unchanging features tiny…

— Susan Faludi

I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.

— Carroll O'Connor

They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not…

— Anonymous

I remember having to hit a mark and having no idea how to do it, real childlike stuff, because Carnegie Mellon didn't…

— Zachary Quinto

Only the childlike consciousness is capable of understanding all that is beautiful in life, all that is great in existence. And the…

— Rajneesh

Alice started to cry. It came with no sound, no shuddering, no childlike hysterics, just a soul-deep release that turned into moisture…

— Kristin Hannah

I navigate through the world with the excitement and determination of a child. That's why I'm an artist. I'd die without an…

— Kurt Sutter

All things look good from far away and it is man's eternally persistent childlike faith in the reality of that illusion that…

— Rockwell Kent

I'm going to miss his childlike laugh. I'll forget the goals but I'll never forget that laugh.

— Gordon Strachan

To that extent that you can sustain and maintain that childlike part of your personality is probably the best part of acting.

— Paul Newman

It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.

— Charles Fillmore

The most consistent characteristic of awakened teachers and people I have met is a childlike nature. They laugh, cry, twinkle, and joke,…

— Catherine Ingram

Mozart began his works in childhood and a childlike quality lurked in his compositions until it dawned on him that the Requiem…

— Ariel Durant

I have a lot of things [in me] that are childlike and innocent and sweet.

— George Carlin

I have a very childlike rage, and a very childlike loneliness.

— Richey Edwards