Childlike Quotes · Page 5

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

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

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

— George Carlin

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

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

— Ernest Becker

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

— Hillary Scott

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

The world was so beautiful when regarded like this, without searching, so simply, in such a childlike way. Moons and stas were…

— Hermann Hesse

…their eager, childlike attention was refreshing to see as compared with the decent, deathlike apathy of weary civilized people, in whom natural…

— John Muir

I’m cold,' Snowden said softly, 'I’m cold.' 'You’re going to be all right, kid,' Yossarian reassured him with a grin. 'You’re going…

— Joseph Heller

The really intelligent person keeps his childhood alive to his last breath.He never loses it-the wonder the child feels looking at the…

— Rajneesh

The scrawled words of practice stood magnificently on the wall by the stairs, jagged and childlike and sweet. They looked on as…

— Markus Zusak

Obviously, as an actor, you have to embrace your imagination all the time, but when you're doing one of these films, you…

— Katherine Waterston

I still feel childlike. Not childish - there's a difference. But to be childlike is to be savoured and treasured. I offer…

— Graeme Base

To maintain a youthful mind, write down two or three things you can do that are totally childlike, such as eating an…

— Deepak Chopra

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

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

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

— Anne Rice

“Let us remain childlike and not childish in our 20-20 vision, borrowing such telescopes, rockets, or magic carpets as may be needed…

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Mumtaz

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

— May Sarton

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

— Saint Augustine

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

— David Leavitt

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

— Beth Hoffman

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

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

— Morinosuke Kawaguchi

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

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

— William Morris

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

— Saqib Saleem

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

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

— Paul Newman

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

— Roman Payne

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

— Tryon Edwards

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

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

— Jarod Kintz