Childish Quotes

301 Childish quotes by 251 unique authors

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 behavior… — Adora Svitak
Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood? — Judith Viorst
My comedy is for children from three to 93. You do need a slightly childish sense of humour and if you haven't got that, it's… — Norman Wisdom
We all spend so much time not saying what we want, because we know we can't have it. And because it sounds ungracious, or ungrateful,… — Nick Hornby
When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so-called good and tolerable days,… — Hermann Hesse
Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may… — Jean-Paul Sartre
Does it hurt?" The childish question had escaped Harry's lips before he could stop it. "Dying? Not at all," said Sirius. "Quicker and easier than… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit, And, in strong proff of chastity well armed,… — William Shakespeare
There are 500 reasons I write for children.... Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics.... They don't read to… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
...[W]e should be mucking about all the time, because mucking about is enjoying life for its own sake, now, and not in preparation for an… — Tom Hodgkinson
I asked myself childish questions and proceeded to answer them. — Albert Einstein
The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, and religious scripture a collection of honourable, but still… — Albert Einstein
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are… — Anais Nin
You have to live spherically - in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm - and things will come your way. — Federico Fellini
Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the… — Isaac Asimov
She could see so clearly now that he was only a childish fancy, no more important really than her spoiled desire for the aquamarine earbobs… — Margaret Mitchell
People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly. — Banksy
Knowledge that is acquired is not like this. Those who have it worry if audiences like it or not. It's a bait for popularity. Disputational… — Unknown Author
Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I put away childish… — C.S. Lewis
It may be a childish torment, but we do not get to choose our demons. — Andrew Sean Greer
Those who fear the imagination condemn it: something childish, they say, something monsterish, misbegotten. Not all of us dream awake. But those of us who… — Patricia A. McKillip
We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to… — Barack Obama
Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed… — Douglas Adams
When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I… — C.S. Lewis
I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish. — Francoise Sagan

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