Childish things Quote by Anonymous

When I was a child, I acted like child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

— Shane Smith

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became…

— Terry Pratchett

When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that…

— Anonymous

I think that I was quite a grown-up child, and I have been a pretty childish adult.

— Arundhati Roy

I am often accused of being childish. I prefer to interpret that as child-like. I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things. I tend…

— Leo Buscaglia

When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. ... I must be scientific.

— Philip K. Dick

Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.

— Anonymous

It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.

— Isaac Asimov

“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

Growing up, I always took things too personal and was very emotional, and I got made fun of for it.

— Melanie Martinez

Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I put away…

— Anonymous

I think I was a bit frightened of having to be a grownup and tried to put that off for as long as I…

— Rufus Sewell