I Put Away Childish Things Quotes

#1. 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.

C.S. Lewis

#2. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

Amanda Hocking

#3. ...therefore all childish fear must be put away.

John Muir

#4. The onset of adulthood is an organic, creeping process. No one wakes up one day and decides, Lo, on this day I shall forever put away childish things and begin clipping coupons to go to Wal-Mart.

David Carr

#5. 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

#6. The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.

Rebecca Pepper Sinkler

#7. Once I turned pro, so to speak, I put away childish things forever.

Glenn Gould

#8. 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.

Benjamin Brindise

#9. When I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from France and Japan.

P. J. O'Rourke

#10. 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.

Rita Dove