Top 100 Childlike Quotes
#1. I'm more interested in the idea of role-playing in general than the idea of role-playing in art. I like the childlike quality of making pretend or the optimistic idea of pretending something's happening when it's not.
Laurel Nakadate
#2. I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things.
Brian Baumgartner
#3. Even the most stoic of men will be childlike at least once in a day.
Claire Bloom
#4. Lincoln had an almost childlike habit of regaling visitors with any sharp saying he'd uttered during the day, taking simple-hearted pleasure in some of his best hits.
Harold Holzer
#5. God's realm belongs to the childlike." - Jesus
Kent Smith
#6. I have a very childlike rage, and a very childlike loneliness.
Richey Edwards
#7. The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province.
Albert Einstein
#8. At the root of Japanese manufacturing lies a feminine delicacy and shyness as well as a childlike curiosity and fantasy-filled worldview.
Morinosuke Kawaguchi
#9. Butler," he called, his voice thin and childlike in the wind.
"Yes, Artemis, what?"
"If something goes wrong, wait for me. No matter how it looks, I will return. I will bring them all back.
Eoin Colfer
#10. He's not a child but he's childlike, he's not a grown up, he's not a kid, maybe he sounds like an elf on helium, we'll play with it.
Tom Kenny
#11. My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ.
Saint Augustine
#12. Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic. A great transformation happens - in innocence you transcend the mind, and to transcend the mind is to become the Awakened One, the Enlightened One.
Rajneesh
#13. It is the childlike part of us that produces works of the imagination. When we were children time passed so slow with us that we seemed to have time for everything.
William Morris
#14. Christmas
Silence in the time
The first snow fell in your laughter
Childlike anticipation
Christmas is in your heart
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#15. My work is play. And I play when I design. I even looked it up in the dictionary, to make sure that I actually do that, and the definition of "play," number one, was "engaging in a childlike activity or endeavor," and number two was "gambling." And I realize I do both when I'm designing.
Paula Scher
#16. Mr Harrington was a bore. He exasperated Ashenden, and enraged him; he got on his nerves, and drove him to frenzy. But Ashenden did not dislike him. His self-satisfaction was enormous but so ingenuous that you could not resent it; his conceit was so childlike that you could only smile at it.
W. Somerset Maugham
#17. The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike.
H.L. Mencken
#18. Mozart began his works in childhood and a childlike quality lurked in his compositions until it dawned on him that the Requiem he was writing for s a stranger was his own.
Ariel Durant
#19. The childlike sense of wonder that we had as children, the sense that there is adventure in each activity, is partly what gave us such strong memories when we were young - it's not that we're slipping into dementia.
Daniel J. Levitin
#20. Writers who drew, they all seemed to draw the same way. They managed to keep that childlike creativity in their line.
Al Hirschfeld
#21. The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we love the world and we are open to understanding, to comprehension, that when we kill the child in us, we are no longer.
Paulo Freire
#22. That naked childlike surrender, before she rose to assume an adult's armour, seemed first thing this morning like a essential from which she was banished.
Ian McEwan
#23. It takes a childlike heart to feel the promptings of the Spirit, to surrender to those commands, and to obey. That is what it takes to be nourished by the good word of God.
Henry B. Eyring
#24. One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike
and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
Albert Einstein
#25. The "feminine" woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her unchanging features tiny and girlish, her voice tinkly, her body stuck on a pin, rotating in a spiral that will never grow.
Susan Faludi
#26. Things involved with a computer fill me with a childlike terror. Now, if it were a nice ogre or some such I'd be more in my element.
Rupert Giles
#27. I am too childlike to be immature.
Lee Siegel
#28. I hope there's always at least a small part of me that's always surprised, always taken aback, always childlike or innocent.
Zachary Levi
#29. The naive is what is or appears to be natural, individual, or classical to the point of irony or to the point of continuous alternation of self-creation and self-destruction. If it is only instinct, then it is childlike, childish, or silly; if it is only intention, it becomes affectation.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#30. Don't grow up too fast, darling. Age is inevitalbe but if you nurture a childlike heart you'll never grow old.
Beth Hoffman
#31. He bent close to me, and suddenly kissed me, in a manner that seemed entirely childlike and also a bit European.
Anne Rice
#32. Because in the end to learn a language, to feel connected to it, you have to have a dialogue, however childlike, however imperfect.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#33. People look at me as sort of a diplomat for Turkey, which by nature, I'm not; I don't want to be. It's again about that playfulness. Being Turkey's voice or representative is not playful, it's not childlike; it makes me self-conscious, kills the child in me.
Orhan Pamuk
#34. It's fun playing two roles. The roles provide a wonderful range of emotions. Stuart is childlike and sensitive. Adam is ruthless, outrageous. He's flamboyant. He does the unexpected.
David Canary
#36. Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing.
David Leavitt
#37. Scientists appear most often in horror movies. Through childlike curiosity or God-defying hubris, they unleash destructive forces they can't control - 'Forbidden Planet's Monsters of the Id.
Virginia Postrel
#38. But now, his liberated eyes stayed on this side, he saw and became aware of the visible, sought to be at home in this world, did not search for the true essence, did not aim at a world beyond. Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike
Hermann Hesse
#39. The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
Maya Lin
#40. I assumed that in this moment I'd be terrified of walking into a new world, but I'm not afraid at all.
I'm filled with a childlike excitement to see what comes next.
As long as my people are with me, I'm ready for anything.
Blake Crouch
#41. He experiences everything with a childlike pleasure that she deems the essential element of a good traveler.
Jennie Fields
#42. Childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have dried up like a forgotten peach at the back of the refrigerator.
John Piper
#43. Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential, but because they are as enormous as life itself.
Anthony Esolen
#44. I do not write for children, but for the childlike, whether of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.
George MacDonald
#45. We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity.
David Lloyd-Jones
#46. The world, after all, was still a place of bottomless horror. It was by no means a place of childlike simplicity where everything could be settled by a simple then-and-there decision.
Osamu Dazai
#47. I navigate through the world with the excitement and determination of a child. That's why I'm an artist. I'd die without an outlet for expression. Unfortunately, more often than not, that childlike energy is the maturity level I bring to many circumstances.
Kurt Sutter
#48. The world was beautiful when looked at in this way - without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.
Hermann Hesse
#50. It's like a kind of Barbie American dream. I have that childlike quality so a lot of little girls especially [like me]. I've always been a kid at heart. I think I always will be.
Paris Hilton
#51. A poet has to be a bit childlike at heart, and in that sense all the romantic stereotypes about poets being "eternal children", etc, are all accurate. They believe, whatever they may say, that art and words can change the world.
John Thomas Allen
#52. Teacher, as he was called, looked tiny, childlike, and deceptively vulnerable.
Tan Twan Eng
#53. Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude ... Don't complain; just work harder ... Never give up.
Randy Pausch
#54. Not by the hairsplitting distinctions of scholars but by the sure logic of faith, the childlike saint has solved the only problem in human life - establishment of unity with God.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#55. I think age is terribly overrated. You're okay as long as you don't grow up. By all means grow old, but don't mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.
Billy Connolly
#56. After 'Sesame Street,' it's a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I'm talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. 'Los Muppets' - I love that!
Feist
#57. Whatever you choose, do it fully-with passion and childlike enthusiasm.
Mehmet Oz
#58. The first time I can remember being on a stage in front of an audience was one that came with triumph, adrenaline and a childlike tragedy. The first time I was on a stage, it wasn't even a music concert. It was a magic show. That being said, the life I lead now isn't what you would call 'destiny'.
Corey Taylor
#59. I think we need to say, 'Okay, Jesus, give us your eyes. Give us childlike faith. Give us the eyes of faith so that we can begin to see the way Christ does and get used to looking for God's glory in each other.
Kevin Paterson
#60. Grow in a way without losing much of our inner childlike deep senses embracing truthful, pure, simple relief of appreciation and gratitude.
Angelica Hopes
#61. Fifteen is such a weird age to be. Nobody treats you like an adult, but you desperately want to be one. You still have these childlike aspects, but you're just kind of coming into the world.
Nick Robinson
#62. The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness.
Kenneth Branagh
#64. People who get into animation tend to be kids. We don't have to grow up. But also, animators are great observers, and there's this childlike wonder and interest in the world, the observation of little things that happen in life.
John Lasseter
#65. I don't like the idea of [having] a thick skin. I think we [should] be more childlike.
Arianna Huffington
#66. He had been humiliated and treated like the white trash he was. Under the bedsheet that hides the identity of every Ku Klux Klansman is a cretinous, vicious, and childlike human being whose last holdout is his whites-only restroom.
James Lee Burke
#67. Don't grow up to fast, darling. Age is inevitable, but if you nuture a childlike heart, you'll never ever grow old.
Beth Hoffman
#68. By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.
Alan Watts
#69. Why do some people stop growing at age 30, just going from work to the couch and television, when others stay vibrant, curious, almost childlike into their nineties?
Jacqueline Novogratz
#70. I'm very curious and being childlike
is vital in our industry
Paul Smith
#71. I have seen the greatest artists and the most eccentric divas in music. The greater and more visionary they were, the more self-reflexive and childlike they behaved.
Christian Gansch
#72. Modern art is childish - not childlike, remember, childish; not innocent but stupid, insane, pathological. We have to get rid of this trend. We have to create a new kind of art, a new kind of creativity. We have to bring to the world again what Gurdjieff calls objective art.
Rajneesh
#73. When you discard arrogance' cool gritty, and a few other things that get in the way, sooner or later you will discover that simple, childlike, and mysterious secret known to those of the uncared block: life is fun.
Benjamin Hoff
#74. There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it.
Franz Kafka
#75. I've hardly had an avant-garde career ... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time.
Alan J. Pakula
#76. It doesn't make sense, it's not logical, it's not a safe profession or a smart profession if you wanna make money or have a living or have a family. So the fact that we keep doing [theatre] means we're getting something from it that is almost childlike in its innocence.
Santino Fontana
#77. I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.
Albert Einstein
#79. Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.
Brennan Manning
#80. It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
Honore De Balzac
#81. Creativity is a combination of discipline and childlike spirit.
Robert Greene
#82. He sensed Death with a depth and clarity of which only small children or great philosophers are capable, philosophers who are themselves almost childlike in the power and simplicity of their thinking.
Vasily Grossman
#83. As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing.
Tim Vine
#84. Develop a childlike fascination with life and people.
Jim Rohn
#85. I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
Beck
#86. I believe in the inevitability of miracles. I believe it because I've come in contact with this reality many times. When childlike faith is combined with love and an unfailingly positive attitude, miracles are inevitable.
Marsha Roberts
#87. The most consistent characteristic of awakened teachers and people I have met is a childlike nature. They laugh, cry, twinkle, and joke, all with a spontaneity born of freedom. Their faces are fluid and reflect a timeless sweetness, even into old age.
Catherine Ingram
#88. The really intelligent person keeps his childhood alive to his last breath.He never loses it-the wonder the child feels looking at the birds,looking at the flowers,looking at the sky ... Intelligence also has to be,in the same way,childlike.
Rajneesh
#89. Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#90. I have things that are strident and confrontational, and I have a lot of things that are childlike and innocent and sort of sweet. So, somewhere in between lies the middle of me.
George Carlin
#92. There are betrayals in war that are childlike compared with our human betrayals during peace. The new lovers enter the habits of the other. Things are smashed, revealed in a new light. This is done with nervous or tender sentences, although the heart is an organ of fire.
Michael Ondaatje
#93. I shudder, I see the love, I'm doomed, my heart melts again - can't stand not to be in love, can't stand not to be melting with real tenderness, childlike need sweetnesses, that's what's wrong with me.
Allen Ginsberg
#94. For me, my heart, that erst did go
Most like a tired child at a show,
That sees through tears the mummers leap,
Would now its wearied vision close,
Would childlike on His love repose,
Who giveth His Beloved, sleep.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#95. The quality I most loved in Warhol - it was his sense of wonder. I mean, he was - absolutely everything was, 'Oh my God, isn't that wonderful!'. You know, and so it wasn't that he was cool and kind of calculated at all. He was very childlike.
Jamie Wyeth
#96. Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.
Saint Augustine
#97. I have a lot of things [in me] that are childlike and innocent and sweet.
George Carlin
#98. The world we knew as children is still buried within our minds. Our childlike self is the deepest level of our being. It is who we really are, and what is real doesn't go away.
Marianne Williamson
#99. Most students have to do some work to resuscitate their childlike curiosity. The best way to do that is to start asking questions again - lots of them.
Hal B. Gregersen
#100. He waited, listening with deep enjoyment, for the end of the sonata. In the still, twilit corridor it sounded so lonely and unworldly, and so brave and innocent also, both childlike and superior, as all good music must in the midst of the unredeemed muteness of the world.
Hermann Hesse
