Childish Quotes

301 Childish quotes by 251 unique authors

In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus… — Thomas Szasz
Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problems have fast, simple, and technological solutions. You must banish from your… — Neil Postman
Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to… — Oscar Wilde
The best way to make a sort of peace, a fragile armistice to be sure, but precious all the same, with men, officers or not,… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Marilla felt more embarrassed than ever. She had intended to teach Anne the childish classic, "Now I lay me down to sleep." But she had,… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
I could wish for nothing more than to die for a childish dream in which I truly believed. — RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa
An introverted, bookish child, with a mass of complexes and her head full of crazy ideals and a childish faith in the beautiful prince who… — Sergei Lukyanenko
You know, it's a truism that writers for children must still be children themselves, deep down, must still feel childish feelings, and a child's surprise… — A. S. Byatt
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
Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
How much more infinite a sea is man? Be not so childish as to measure him from head to foot and think you have found… — Mikhail Naimy
Our apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but… — Virginia Woolf
Americans have a taste for…rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
We had enough years in front of us to be serious and grown-up and respectable. Why rush it? But on the other hand we always… — John Marsden
Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies; indeed, they would never dare so to trifle with God,… — John Calvin
One thing is certain: the arts keep you alive. They stimulate, encourage, challenge, and, most of all, guarantee a future free from boredom. They allow… — Vincent Price
When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up. — C.S. Lewis
Alice! A childish story take, And with a gentile hand Lay it where Childhood dreams are twined In memory's mystic band, Like pilgrim's withered wreath… — Lewis Carroll
I think that I was quite a grown-up child, and I have been a pretty childish adult. — Arundhati Roy
Democracy is grounded upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even halfwits would… — H. L. Mencken
The walls of this elevator are made of crystal so that you can watch the people on the ground floor shrink to ants as you… — Suzanne Collins
Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. — C.S. Lewis
Children have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
Hippo in a skirt: this was a comic reference to one of Solomon's principal wives, the one from Moab. Childish? Yes. But in the days… — Jonathan Stroud

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