Quotes about Childish (239 quotes)

Childish fantasy, like the sheath over the bud, not only protects but curbs the terrible budding spirit, protects not only innocence from the world, but the world from the power of innocence. Votes: 3

Elizabeth Bowen

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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 before printing we had limited opportunities for satire. Votes: 3

Jonathan Stroud

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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 errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history. Votes: 3

Albert Camus

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Children get acquainted with each other in a special way, they do not make contracts as adults, they believe each other or not. Childish friendships often end in violence. You may become an enemy all of a sudden as well as notice that you are someone's best friend. Votes: 3

Henning Mankell

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Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence. Votes: 1

John Lydon

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Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them. Votes: 1

Mason Cooley

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Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions. Votes: 1

Isaiah Berlin

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To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach. Votes: 1

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency. Votes: 1

Albert Ellis

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I'm childish and silly. Most people tease me because I'm a bit daft. Votes: 1

Harriet Walter

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Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. Votes: 1

James Anthony Froude

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I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance. Votes: 1

Christopher Marlowe

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If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child. Votes: 1

Frederick Buechner

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When we're in that kind of childish space, we're more genuine and feel more comfortable with our friends. Votes: 1

Evan Spiegel

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Every second is mapped out and he has this total childish fascination with color and shapes and sequences. Votes: 1

Meg White

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Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself. Votes: 1

Katharine Hepburn

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The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements. Votes: 1

George W. S. Trow

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In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish. Votes: 1

Karl Lagerfeld

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I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things. Votes: 1

Brian Baumgartner

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You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?' Votes: 1

Christopher Meloni

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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 very sad. Votes: 1

Norman Wisdom

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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 an ugly and distorted image. Votes: 1

Charles Dickens

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I really wanted to be a newspaper cartoonist, but nobody liked my work. I didn't have the control or flair that was necessary to create something that didn't look childish. Votes: 1

Jeff Kinney

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If religious people deny paradise to their opponents or to 'non-believers,' atheists would likewise seek to eliminate 'dangerous' believers with their 'childish' ways and their heads in the clouds. Votes: 1

Tariq Ramadan

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Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big. Votes: 1

Kate Greenaway

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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, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things. Votes: 1

Janet Jackson

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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 play... As an actor, getting to play, getting to use your imagination and be childish - it is weird but it's wonderful. Votes: 1

Max Irons

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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 much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new. Votes: 1

John Steinbeck

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I hope that there's a difference between being childish and childlike and that I'm the latter, if you take my meaning. I often sort of wonder. I don't think I'm a terribly good grown-up; I don't take responsibility easily or well in many areas of life. Finance and stuff like that, I'm absolutely appalling. Votes: 1

Graeme Base

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At 35, I'm definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There's nothing in my life that is childish or whimsical. Having fun is fantastic and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work or else it's going to feel stiff. Votes: 1

Drew Barrymore

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inventiveness is childish, practice sublime. Votes: 0

Madame de Stael

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Dying people often become childish. Votes: 0

Georg Buchner

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More childish valorous than manly wise. Votes: 0

Christopher Marlowe

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The discussion of fur is childish. Votes: 0

Karl Lagerfeld

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Be like children , Not childish BUT childlike. Votes: 0

Michael Jackson

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The children of childish parents age quickly. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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We're children. We're supposed to be childish. Votes: 0

George R. R. Martin

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Deep meaning lies often in childish play. Votes: 0

Friedrich Schiller

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You can be childlike without being childish. Votes: 0

Christopher Meloni

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Totally girly - love all the childish sounds. Votes: 0

Anna Sui

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Not every age is fit for childish sports. Votes: 0

Plautus

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...therefore all childish fear must be put away. Votes: 0

John Muir

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You can't confuse childlike faith with childish thinking. Votes: 0

John F. MacArthur

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At some point free expression absolutism becomes childish and unserious. Votes: 0

Garry Trudeau

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Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism. Votes: 0

Emile M. Cioran

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From childish fear springs the desire to externalise the ego. Votes: 0

Bertrand Russell

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I asked myself childish questions and proceeded to answer them. Votes: 0

Albert Einstein

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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of... freedom and childish play. Votes: 0

Agnes de Mille

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Never lose your childish enthusiasm and things will come your way. Votes: 0

Frances Mayes

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Be childish. Be irresponsible. Be disrespectful. Be everything this society hates. Votes: 0

Malcolm Mclaren

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You say he's childish, but he's very professional about business transactions. Votes: 0

Martin Bashir

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An honest government is the childish dream of the gullible men! Votes: 0

Mehmet Murat ildan

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A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish. Votes: 0

Karl Marx

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Our memory is childish and it saves only what we need. Votes: 0

Czeslaw Milosz

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That's all life is - something childish and very natural. Isn't it? Votes: 0

Katherine Mansfield

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Let's abolish the term 'childish' because adults normally cause the largest problems. Votes: 0

Adora Svitak

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Sweet childish days, that were as long, As twenty days are now. Votes: 0

William Wordsworth

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Once I turned pro, so to speak, I put away childish things forever. Votes: 0

Glenn Gould

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Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays. Votes: 0

Friedrich Schiller

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I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish. Votes: 0

Francoise Sagan

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Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided 'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man. Votes: 0

Victor Hugo

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You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age. Votes: 0

Homer

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Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. Votes: 0

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Genius has somewhat of the infantine; but of the childish not a touch or taint. Votes: 0

Robert Browning

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It may be a childish torment, but we do not get to choose our demons. Votes: 0

Andrew Sean Greer

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People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly. Votes: 0

Banksy

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War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose. Votes: 0

Jayne Mansfield

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She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world. Votes: 0

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The Bible is a collection of honorable, but primitive legends which are still nevertheless pretty childish. Votes: 0

Albert Einstein

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Optimists are childish; they even believe they can find an ice cream store in the hell! Votes: 0

Mehmet Murat ildan

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When someone accuses you of being 'childish', I think you should take it as a compliment. Votes: 0

Stana Katic

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I cherish my childish loves--the memory of that warm little nest where my affections were fledged. Votes: 0

George Eliot

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A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection. Votes: 0

Alexander Cockburn

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The biggest awakening is the awakening from the childish deceptions and the invented tales of the religion. Votes: 0

Mehmet Murat ildan

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In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish. Votes: 0

Karl Lagerfeld

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With mortal age comes the immense need for childish charms. Like a fine wine, sweetens with maturity." Votes: 0

Rae Lori

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Learn to get excited like a child. There is nothing that has more magic than childish excitement. Votes: 0

Jim Rohn

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For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. Votes: 0

Albert Einstein

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The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak. Votes: 0

George Crabbe

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It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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Kira is childish and hates to lose. I am also childish and hate to lose. - L Votes: 0

Tsugumi Ohba

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I think that I was quite a grown-up child, and I have been a pretty childish adult. Votes: 0

Arundhati Roy

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In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish. Votes: 0

T. S. Eliot

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I could wish for nothing more than to die for a childish dream in which I truly believed. Votes: 0

RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa

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The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy. Votes: 0

Roger Scruton

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Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish. Votes: 0

T.H. White

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When a man says it's a silly childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Votes: 0

Don Epperson

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... The glamour Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast Down in the flood of remembrance ... Votes: 0

D. H. Lawrence

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Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not? Votes: 0

China Mieville

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It's childish, but it still gives me great pleasure to see high-res pictures everyone told me would be impossible. Votes: 0

Stefan Hell

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I have a very childish attitude to books - a very non-analytic enthusiasm... like Alice falling down the chute. Votes: 0

Mariella Frostrup

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It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child. Votes: 0

Isaac Asimov

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Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood? Votes: 0

Judith Viorst

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I'm trying to be nice to me too. It's kind of childish, but it's work that needs to be done. Votes: 0

Jai Uttal

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Frankly, I wish I could make my heart quit doing an extra thump when Wolfe says satisfactory, Archie. It's childish. Votes: 0

Rex Stout

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It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I finally learned that doing what I want isn't love. I don't want to hurt him again by acting childish. Votes: 0

Na Hae Ryeong

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People enquire as to the craft behind our art and we reply by making references to a patently childish notion. Votes: 0

Jay Sankey

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I walked onstage in a play at prep school, and with childish naivete, told myself, 'Wow, I'm an actor!' Votes: 0

Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.

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What makes you think children like childish things? Don't tell them how to be children. They want to grow up. Votes: 0

M.B. Goffstein

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For me, it's very childish to tour on a train. And I think that's a powerful quality, to inspire childishness. Votes: 0

Alex Ebert

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You have to live spherically - in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm - and things will come your way. Votes: 0

Federico Fellini

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What you take to be hyprocrisy is sometimes a certain caution, sometimes genuine, though ponderous, childish, sometimes a mixture of both. Votes: 0

Jean Rhys

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If God is playing hide and seek with us, I must confess that I am quite bored with this childish game! Votes: 0

Mehmet Murat ildan

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He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity. Votes: 0

Mikhail Bakunin

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In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous. Votes: 0

Elie Wiesel

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As long as I continue to hear 'normal' people telling me I am too childish, I know I'm doing just fine. Votes: 0

Wayne Dyer

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Yes we can' always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls. Votes: 0

Craig Shirley

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When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. ... I must be scientific. Votes: 0

Philip K. Dick

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To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films. Votes: 0

Alan Moore

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For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial. Votes: 0

Charlotte Bronte

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When I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from France and Japan. Votes: 0

P. J. O'Rourke

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When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up. Votes: 0

C. S. Lewis

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Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. Votes: 0

C. S. Lewis

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It was all very childish. Why on earth should Edward have to leave for Jacob to come over? Weren't we past this immaturity? Votes: 0

Stephenie Meyer

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Scorned and torn, former love mates aim and shoot childish devastating daggers that penetrate beyond target to pierce the heart of their offspring. Votes: 0

T.F. Hodge

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The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also related to childlessness)." Votes: 0

Christopher Hitchens

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It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm further off from heaven Than when I was a boy. Votes: 0

Thomas Hood

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Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up. Votes: 0

C. S. Lewis

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We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things. Votes: 0

Aristotle

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A nation is not made wealthy by the childish accumulation of shiny metals, but it enriched by the economic prosperity of it's people. Votes: 0

Adam Smith

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The childish urge to understand everything doesn't necessarily fade when the time approaches for you to do the most adult thing of all: vanish. Votes: 0

Clive James

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It was juvenile, he knew, this need to assign blame, but everyone had a right to childish emotions from time to time, didn't they? Votes: 0

Julia Quinn

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The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly. Votes: 0

Matthew Hale

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Avenia thinks they're battling a king. I doubt they're prepared to fight a boy who thinks childish pranks are practical strategies for war.Aren't they? Votes: 0

Jennifer A. Nielsen

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It's not fair. It's not fair," she cried, knowing it was a child's argument but not caring, because being childish did not make it untrue. Votes: 0

Kristin Cashore

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All that helter-skelter about strings and memories was only relevant in the dark. It was light out now and time to put away childish things. Votes: 0

Benjamin Brindise

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Mother said," mocked the king. "Don't be childish." "We're children," Myrcella declared haughtily. "We're supposed to be childish." The Hound laughed. "She has you there. Votes: 0

George R. R. Martin

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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. Votes: 0

E. B. White

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There is often seen this anomaly in women, especially in those of childish natures,--that they possess at once great promptness and unskilfulness in falsehood. Votes: 0

Alphonse Daudet

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There is a mixture of evil in everything we do; indulgence encourages us to encroach, while we Crabbe exercise the rights of children, we become childish. Votes: 0

William Cowper

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Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting. Votes: 0

Al Pacino

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My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard. Votes: 0

William Wordsworth

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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 childish. Votes: 0

Geri Halliwell

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Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor. Votes: 0

William Makepeace Thackeray

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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 more. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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 falling asleep. Votes: 0

J. K. Rowling

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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 by cowardice. Votes: 0

Clarence Darrow

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You can play Bach on the piano, a symphony orchestra or a quartet of saxophones, but let's stop this silly, childish business of knit your own musicology Votes: 0

Paul McCreesh

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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 his borders. Votes: 0

Mikhail Naimy

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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 most rudimentary knowledge. Votes: 0

Mao Zedong

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A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do. Votes: 0

Gene Wilder

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What but a pestilential vapour can hover over society when its chief director is only instructed in the invention of crimes, or the stupid routine of childish ceremonies? Votes: 0

Mary Wollstonecraft

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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 at the world. Votes: 0

A. S. Byatt

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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 state of innocence. Votes: 0

John Lydon

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With drooping bells of clearest blue Thou didst attract my childish view, Almost resembling The azure butterflies that flew Where on the heath thy blossoms grew So lightly trembling. Votes: 0

Reginald Heber

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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 do have no choice. Votes: 0

Patricia A. McKillip

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A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.' Votes: 0

Gene Wilder

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What need is there to say more? The childish work for their own benefit, The Buddhas work for the benefit of others. Just look at the difference between them. Votes: 0

Shantideva

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I really like telling stories. When I was a kid, I wanted to write songs. In quite a fundamental, gratifying, childish way, I enjoy the doing of telling a story. Votes: 0

Paul Bettany

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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 childish, to bewail it senseless. Votes: 0

W. Somerset Maugham

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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 the kingdom where nobody dies. Votes: 0

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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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 you put away childish things. Votes: 0

Rita Dove

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The obligation to amuse and instruct myself was entirely my own, and people who didn't know that were childish people, to be avoided if possible. Certainly not to be trusted. Votes: 0

John Taylor Gatto

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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 associated with irresponsibility and irrational thinking. Votes: 0

Adora Svitak

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Autumn is a season of desperate hopes. The leaves are souls begging to turn life on pause. Begging to stop, begging to take a break, hiding under smiles and childish words. Votes: 0

Teodora Savu

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It's probably a form of childish curiosity that keeps me going as a fiction writer. I ... want to open everybody's bureau drawers and see what they keep in there. I'm nosy. Votes: 0

Margaret Atwood

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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 had learned to read and write. Votes: 0

Wolfgang Hildesheimer

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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 to try a lot of new things. Votes: 0

Iris Apfel

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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 childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away. Votes: 0

Jean Ingelow

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However far-fetched it may sound, experience shows that many neuroses are caused by the fact that people blind themselves to their own religious promptings because of a childish passion for rational enlightenment. Votes: 0

Carl Jung

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The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of years because nobody was around to take such childish steps... Votes: 0

Alexander Grothendieck

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The defense against childish helplessness is what lends its characteristic features to the adult's reaction to the helplessness which he has to acknowledge - a reaction which is precisely the formation of religion. Votes: 0

Sigmund Freud

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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 was searching for and would surely find her. Votes: 0

Sergei Lukyanenko

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Some people like me, some don't. I don't understand, Where the difference comes from. My heart like them all. For a simple childish reason. We all are created equal, we all are humans. Votes: 0

Santosh Kalwar

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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 of flowers Pluck'd in a far off land. Votes: 0

Lewis Carroll

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To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him. Votes: 0

Samuel Butler

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I hear a lot of people singing in funny voices and singing like they're stupid. Singing in a deliberately fey and dumb and childish way. And I find it to be a disturbing trend. Votes: 0

Daryl Hall

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Yet for all the childish innocence of its bizarre glamor, Venice developed an atmosphere, or became the outpost of a sinister deep-rooted power.... It is a place of dreams, not only the tinseled ones....... Votes: 0

Fritz Leiber

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All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing... better than to follow nature. Votes: 0

Caravaggio

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When making a point, there are 2 types of people who may disagree with you: those who can support their reasons, and the childish ones who are too worried about being told what to do. Votes: 0

Criss Jami

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Age childish makes, they say, but 'tis not true; We're only genuine children still in Age's season. [Ger., Das Alter macht nicht kindisch, wie man spricht, Es findet uns nur noch als wahre Kinder.] Votes: 0

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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But the shadow is merely somewhat inferior, primitive, unadapted, and awkward; not wholly bad. It even contains childish or primitive qualities which would in a way vitalize and embellish human existence, but convention forbids! Votes: 0

C.G. Jung

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But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports; now is the time to get rid of self-will in him, punishing him, but not so as to disgrace him. Votes: 0

Plato

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To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other wasteful childish emotions. To find myself, in other words, an adult. Truman Capote Votes: 0

Truman Capote

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Among all the many kinds of first love, that which begins in childish companionship is the strongest and most enduring: when passion comes to unite its force to long affection, love is at its spring-tide. Votes: 0

George Eliot

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"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 upon them-maybe I was never childish enough for that? Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us. No reader worth his salt trots along in obedience to a time-table. Votes: 0

C. S. Lewis

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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 things, along with the desire to be very grown up. Votes: 0

C. S. Lewis

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The unconscious mind is decidedly simple, unaffected, straightforward and honest. It hasn't got all of this facade, this veneer of what we call adult culture. It's rather simple, rather childish It is direct and free. Votes: 0

Milton H. Erickson

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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 or girls, anything but little parrots and small calculating machines. Votes: 0

Charles Dickens

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For kids like me, being called childish can be a frequent occurrence. Every time we make irrational demands, exhibit irresponsible behavior, or display any other signs of being normal American citizens, we are called childish. Votes: 0

Adora Svitak

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