Children Quote by Anonymous

The traits the word 'childish' addresses are seen so often in adults that we should abolish this age-discriminatory word when it comes to criticizing…

— Adora Svitak

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

— Seth Godin

Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind.

— Anonymous

The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.

— Louisa May Alcott

“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about…

— C.S. Lewis

“If we are to use the words ‘childish’ and ‘infantile’ as terms of disapproval, we must make sure that they refer only to those…

— C.S. Lewis

...I had grown up in a world that was dominated by immature age. Not by vigorous immaturity, but by immaturity that was old and…

— Ellen Glasgow

We're so preoccupied with protecting children from disappointment and discomfort that we're inadvertently excusing them from growing up.

— LZ Granderson

“We do our sulking lovers the greatest possible favor when we are able to regard their tantrums as we would those of an infant.…

— Alain de Botton

I do think it's good to remember that childish things are made for children, and that, however pleasantly lurid the promise of a return…

— Lauren Faust

I hope that there's a difference between being childish and childlike and that I'm the latter, if you take my meaning. I often sort…

— Graeme Base

Let's abolish the term 'childish' because adults normally cause the largest problems.

— Adora Svitak