Don't Be Childish Quotes

#1. 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.

George R R Martin

#2. I don't respect thinking that is dangerous, prejudicial, childish, and could get me killed.

Bill Maher

#3. Saying, "I don't agree with you," or going so far as to say, "I think your belief structure is childish," does not amount to persecution. Insensitivity is not the same as harassment or oppression.

Gudjon Bergmann

#4. There are thousands of grant programs and every program has different requirements and deadlines.

Matthew Lesko

#5. I did not like prizes at school. I didn't like tests or exams, or the 11+, or O-levels. Later I hated B.A.s and M.A.s. The reason I hated them is that I don't like being tested, failed or falsely praised by anyone.

Billy Childish

#6. Sarah smiled, one of those little childish smiles she was so good at. It very nearly broke the Doctor's heart. 'You know what I think? I think you don't really regenerate at all. I think you just keep taking off masks.

Lawrence Miles

#7. I don't know. I love the idea of democracy, the hope, yes, I love that. I couldn't live without that. But the country? You mean the thing on the map, lines, everything inside the lines is good and nothing outside them matters? How can an adult love such a childish idea?

Ursula K. Le Guin

#8. I see the bomber pictures as an anti-war statement ... which they aren't - at all. Pictures like that don't do anything to combat war. They only show one tiny aspect of the subject of war - maybe only my own childish feelings of fear and fascination with war and with weapons of that kind.

Gerhard Richter

#9. Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.

Brian Tracy

#10. It's irrational and childish for me to be upset, and I don't care.

Jim Butcher

#11. Bowie and McCartney arrived, and the biscuits and caviare started and I left immediately. I don't like shouting across rooms, with people in shiny suits who look like used-car salesmen.

Billy Childish

#12. 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.

Charles Dickens

#13. Money scares me, and it always has done. I've got a childish concept of money, and I like to keep it that way in the sense that I don't like to think about it.

Sam Taylor-Wood

#14. How far you go in life depends on
your being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged,
sympathetic with the striving and
tolerant of the weak and strong.
Because someday in your life
you will have been all of these.

George Washington Carver

#15. I'm not trying to achieve perfection. I don't like this forced control people have over work.

Billy Childish

#16. Have Jesus always for your patron, His Cross for a mast on which you must spread your resolutions as a sail. Your anchor shall be a profound confidence in Him, and you shall sail prosperously.

Francis De Sales

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

Na Hae Ryeong

#18. Ask yourself what it is you want more, to ease your ancient fear or to revenge your childish dopey injured male pride." I

Don DeLillo

#19. 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.

Santosh Kalwar

#20. Most people are asleep and need to be confronted, like adults that are still behaving like they're 5 years old, and don't want to assume responsibility for their mistakes.

Robin Sacredfire

#21. I always wanted it, the fame. When it come, I didn't want to let it go.

Samantha Fox

#22. Don't curse a child for doing childish things, but don't 'courage him none neither.

T. Geronimo Johnson

#23. Don't live in regret! It is such a useless idea.
Use the memory to prevent us do bad things!
Regret is a childish wish, or an empty hope,
trying to revise the bitter memory of the past.

Toba Beta

#24. Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.

Abraham Maslow

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

Don Epperson

#26. Artists who don't paint aren't artists.

Billy Childish

#27. All my feelings have the color you desire to paint.

Rumi

#28. The ultimate goal is to be more satisfied. I really don't believe you get wiser because you get older. It's a choice, perhaps not to take some things so seriously.

Boy George

#29. 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 all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.

Douglas Adams

#30. I feel the sexiest when I'm on stage with the Dolls because I feel like nothing can touch me. Although I want to touch everyone in some way.

Nicole Scherzinger

#31. I don't spend a lot of time working if I can help it.

Billy Childish

#32. Feeling bored is a childish attitude.
You wouldn't feel so if you don't rely
on somebody to change your feeling.

Toba Beta

#33. I don't like to be called Elvis the Pelvis. It's one of the most childish expressions I've ever heard coming from an adult. But if they wanna call me that, there's nothin' I can do about it, so I just have to accept it.

Elvis Presley

#34. I don't like diabolism so I stay away from things like Clockwork Orange. I think diabolism is awfully childish. I don't even want to see The Godfather. I couldn't stand seeing that horse's head cut off. I wouldn't mind if it were Marlon Brando's.

Anita Loos

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

M.B. Goffstein

#36. I just have this thing in my head that I want to do serious stories that are still just way too cute and drawn in a really cute, appealing, rounded, childish way, and it's like, I don't know if it makes sense - but it's just something I'm really strongly compelled to do.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

#37. it was the kind of moon
that I would want to
send back to my ancestors
and gift to my descendants

so they know that I too,
have been bruised...by beauty.

Sanober Khan

#38. 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 be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.

Oscar Wilde