Childish Quotes

301 Childish quotes by 251 unique authors

Many adults, whether consciously or unconsciously, find it beneath their adult dignity to do anything as childish as read a book, think a thought, or… — Isaac Asimov
I don't like that sort of school... where the bright childish imagination is utterly discouraged... where I have never seen among the pupils, whether boys… — Charles Dickens
To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The sun does not shine for a few trees, and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. The lonely pine on the mountain-top waves its… — Henry Ward Beecher
I could not clearly distinguish what was passing in my head; it seemed to me that I was under the influence of a horrible dream… — Alfred de Musset
Having no human companion I felt a spirit of comradeship for the objects of nature around me. In my childish way I communed with these… — Jan Smuts
The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest. — Elwyn Brooks White
The world is always childish, and with each new gewgaw of a revolution or new constitution that it finds, thinks it shall never cry any… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 to… — Leo Buscaglia
Giving the kids a programming environment of any sort, whether it's a tool like Squeak or Scratch or Logo to write programs in a childish… — Nicholas Negroponte
In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our… — Albert Camus
It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can be childlike without being childish. — Christopher Meloni
When I pray, I never pray for myself, always for others, or else I hold a silly, naive, or deadly serious dialogue with what is… — Etty Hillesum
I see the bomber pictures as an anti-war statement... which they aren't - at all. Pictures like that don't do anything to combat war. They… — Gerhard Richter
The imperative to develop new technologies and implement them on a heroic scale no longer seems like the childish preoccupation of a few nerds with… — Neal Stephenson
All the inventions and devices ever constructed by the human hand or conceived by the human mind, no matter how delicate, how intricate and complicated,… — John Harvey Kellogg
I wanted to create a heroine that was flawed. I wanted her to be a real person. She's selfish, she's childish, she's immature and because… — Amber Benson
I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things. — Brian Baumgartner
Dying people often become childish. — Georg Buchner
There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there… — Ade Edmondson
We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things. — Aristotle
I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go so far as… — Ben Fountain
I mean, it's fine when you're a kid and someone runs into the playground and goes, 'I've got this great game of pretend,' and you… — Max Irons
A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child,… — Janet Jackson

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