Childlike Quotes · Page 5

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

“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

The Wizard Of Oz" has secrets that are just too much. Or "Peter Pan" – the whole 'lost boys' thing is just…

— Michael Jackson

O how blessed it would be never to marry, or grow old; but to spend one's life innocently and indifferently among the…

— Virginia Woolf

There are those much more rare people who never lose their curiosity, their almost childlike wonder at the world; those people who…

— William Herbert Sheldon

The first time I can remember being on a stage in front of an audience was one that came with triumph, adrenaline…

— Corey Taylor

To be more childlike, you don't have to give up being an adult. The fully integrated person is capable of being both…

— Wayne Dyer

I'm a big kid. I never lost my childlike appreciation of things. Too many people lock it out and throw their toys…

— Andy Partridge

“The poet believed that 'Beauty' first entered the world not at its creation, nor with the first garden, the first sunrise, the…

— Roman Payne

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

“Ô, Wanderess, Wanderess When did you feel your most euphoric kiss? Was I the source of your greatest bliss?”

— Roman Payne

It is the childlike part of us that produces works of the imagination. When we were children time passed so slow with…

— William Morris

I've hardly had an avant-garde career ... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it…

— Alan J. Pakula

Now that I am an actor (if you can call me that) I still watch movies with the same childlike enthusiasm.

— Saqib Saleem

“He bent close to me, and suddenly kissed me, in a manner that seemed entirely childlike and also a bit European.”

— Anne Rice

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

— Christopher Meloni

Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know…

— Henry David Thoreau

Why do some people stop growing at age 30, just going from work to the couch and television, when others stay vibrant,…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

There is a childlike wonder in my work. Even 'Los Espookys' is like a live-action cartoon. There's something untethered and free that…

— Julio Torres

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

I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.

— Hillary Scott

“On Lou: She has a childlike purity and integrity of character and at the same time, a quite unchildlike, almost unfeminine, direction…

— Alois Biedermann

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

He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I have things that are strident and confrontational, and I have a lot of things that are childlike and innocent and sort…

— George Carlin

I hope there's always at least a small part of me that's always surprised, always taken aback, always childlike or innocent.

— Zachary Levi

It's fun playing two roles. The roles provide a wonderful range of emotions. Stuart is childlike and sensitive. Adam is ruthless, outrageous.…

— David Canary

Things involved with a computer fill me with a childlike terror. Now, if it were a nice ogre or some such I'd…

— Rupert Giles

To live is to play at the meaning of life...The upshot of this . . . is that it teaches us once…

— Ernest Becker

When I was on dialysis, I willed myself to do 'On the Town.' It accesses my most childlike, joyful love of theater.

— George C. Wolfe

Truly original thinkers tend not to be entrepreneurs who've spent 10 years at Cisco and can be trusted to know what they're…

— Steve Jurvetson