Childish Quotes

301 Childish quotes by 251 unique authors

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension; when he does not torment himself with childish guilt feelings, but avoids tragic… — Joshua L. Liebman
A handwritten letter carries a lot of risk. It's a one-sided conversation that reveals the truth of the writer. Furthermore, the writer is not there… — Adriana Trigiani
Totally girly - love all the childish sounds. — Anna Sui
There are moments of clarity daily. They open me up with a breath and keep me calm. They feed me the answers. And they hold… — Buddy Wakefield
There are two novels that can transform a bookish 14-year-old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish daydream that… — Raj Patel
Repudiating the sensible world, which he neither sees himself nor believes from those who have, the Peripatetic joins combat by childish quibbling in a world… — Johannes Kepler
Anna was saying to herself: why do I always have this awful need to make other people see things as I do? It's childish, why… — Doris Lessing
I cannot exaggerate the effect of this marvelous sight on my childish imagination. Day after day I asked myself what is electricity and found no… — Nikola Tesla
"God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time… — Friedrich Nietzsche
If I could have made the change sooner I daresay I should never have given a thought to the literary delights of Paris or London;… — Edith Wharton
The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which… — George Orwell
If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child. — Frederick Buechner
I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky; It was a childish… — Thomas Hood
It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man. — Victor Hugo
There is a canyon of difference between doing your best to glorify God and doing whatever it takes to glorify yourself. The quest for excellence… — Max Lucado
This silent cry is of ecstasy for what has been done, and of despair at being forestalled, and being thus forewarned, that neither This Year… — Hal Porter
In my serious work I am striving for the essence of things and for goals which are possibly unobtainable. On the other hand, everything humorous… — Philippe Halsman
The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding, it is impossible to acquire even the… — Mao Zedong
As long as I continue to hear 'normal' people telling me I am too childish, I know I'm doing just fine. — Wayne Dyer
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being… — C.S. Lewis
My philosophy is that I am a friend of the children. I don't think anyone should see them as pitiable subjects or charity. That is… — Kailash Satyarthi
The discussion of fur is childish. — Karl Lagerfeld
Normal men retain their childish longing for a woman to mother them. At adolescence a new desire is added. They want a girl to allure… — William Moulton Marston
Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic,… — L. Frank Baum
Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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