Childish Quotes

301 Childish quotes by 251 unique authors

When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I… — Wolfgang Hildesheimer
The sumptuous age of stars and images is reduced to a few artificial tornado effects, pathetic fake buildings, and childish tricks which the crowd pretends… — Jean Baudrillard
The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak. — George Crabbe
I have a hard time waking up. No alarm clock works! It sounds childish, but I seriously have my manager, my mom or a buddy… — Jesse McCartney
I just make what I like - warm and human stories, ones about historic characters and events, and about animals. If there is a secret,… — Walt Disney
I think I still keep my sense of wonder, which I call childlike, not childish, childlike. I still have a vivid imagination, and I like… — Iris Apfel
Cheap music, childish images, the vulgate in language, in its crassest sense, can penetrate to the deeps of our necessities and dreams. It can assert… — George Steiner
Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them. — Mason Cooley
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and… — Clarence Darrow
Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to… — Charles Dickens
I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then… — Rita Dove
For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency. — Albert Ellis
A lot of people have said that I've got a voice that speaks to children. I think I've got a natural naivety to me. I'm… — Geri Halliwell
Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself. — Katharine Hepburn
Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When… — Jean Ingelow
In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish. — Karl Lagerfeld
Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence. — John Lydon
Having a birthday cake squashed into your face by young kids? Delicious. I always don a Santa suit at Christmas. Remaining childish is a tremendous… — John Lydon
I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance. — Christopher Marlowe
There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is… — W. Somerset Maugham
You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?' — Christopher Meloni
To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films. — Alan Moore
Risk is the sort of word that is easy to discuss upfront but tough to handle when it comes time to pay the piper. There… — Nathan Myhrvold
Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays. — Friedrich Schiller
These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them… — John Steinbeck

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