Childlike Quotes · Page 4

I like crazy, childlike, candy bar-filled cakes with gooey caramel, chocolate-covered nuts, marshmallows, and the like.

— Ron Ben-Israel

The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some…

— Kenneth Branagh

Fifteen is such a weird age to be. Nobody treats you like an adult, but you desperately want to be one. You…

— Nick Robinson

Out of every difficulty Omnipotence can bring us, only let us in childlike confidence cast our burden upon the Lord.

— Charles Spurgeon

He's not a child but he's childlike, he's not a grown up, he's not a kid, maybe he sounds like an elf…

— Tom Kenny

To tap into that natural creative spirit, recapture your childlike enthusiasm for everything around you. Work with the reckless delight of a…

— Nita Leland

Writers who drew, they all seemed to draw the same way. They managed to keep that childlike creativity in their line.

— Al Hirschfeld

Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a…

— Rowan Atkinson

Vanity is really the least bad and most pardonable sort. The vain person wants praise, applause, admiration too much and is always…

— C. S. Lewis

By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear…

— Alan Watts

“God sense little children to speak and act for him. In their simplicity and naivety they say and do things that we…

— Phil Steer

We give credit to human wisdom when we should give credit to the divine guidance of God being exhibited through childlike people…

— Oswald Chambers

I'm more interested in the idea of role-playing in general than the idea of role-playing in art. I like the childlike quality…

— Laurel Nakadate

I know that part of why I was excited to do this was the sense of play and childlike wonder and the…

— Paul Dano

Pray a little each day in a childlike way for the Spirit of prayer. If you feel that you know, as yet,…

— Ole Hallesby

“There’s a huge difference between being childlike and being childish. When we embrace joy and look at the world with fresh eyes…

— Seth Godin

To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.

— Albert Einstein

I think sometimes older people wind up being a little childlike. They've done their time, now they get to do what they…

— Vera Brosgol

Become more and more innocent, less knowledgeable and more childlike. Take life as fun - because that's precisely what it is!

— Rajneesh

I have childlike excitement about small things that life has to offer; I keep myself excited by thinking about what to do…

— Dharmendra

“We then spend our lives not seeing what we saw . The picture is there: what we know when we’re small; when…

— Hélène Cixous

Childlike in faith means the daily acknowledgment of utter dependence and that I owe my life and being to another.

— Brennan Manning

“All books are coloring books, if you are in possession of a childlike imagination, and a box of markers.”

— Jarod Kintz

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its…

— Tryon Edwards

The world, after all, was still a place of bottomless horror. It was by no means a place of childlike simplicity where…

— Osamu Dazai

I think age is terribly overrated. You're okay as long as you don't grow up. By all means grow old, but don't…

— Billy Connolly

As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to…

— Tim Vine

“Our lips were for each other and our eyes were full of dreams. We knew nothing of travel and we knew nothing…

— Roman Payne

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

At the root of Japanese manufacturing lies a feminine delicacy and shyness as well as a childlike curiosity and fantasy-filled worldview.

— Morinosuke Kawaguchi

Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic.

— Rajneesh

Butler,” he called, his voice thin and childlike in the wind. “Yes, Artemis, what?” “If something goes wrong, wait for me. No…

— Eoin Colfer

“Don't grow up too fast, darling. Age is inevitalbe but if you nurture a childlike heart you'll never grow old.”

— Beth Hoffman

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

Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to…

— David Leavitt

My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a…

— Saint Augustine

[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become…

— May Sarton

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

— Paul Newman

Scientists appear most often in horror movies. Through childlike curiosity or God-defying hubris, they unleash destructive forces they can't control - 'Forbidden…

— Virginia Postrel