Top 100 Like A Child Quotes
#1. Time is the continuous loop, the snakeskin with scales endlessly overlapping without beginning or end, or time is an ascending spiral if you will, like a child's toy Slinky.
Annie Dillard
#2. When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.
1 Corinthians 13 11
#3. All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child.
John Grant
#4. Criminy?" I asked.
"Hmm?"
"What are we doing?"
"I'm having a meal with a friend while you squirm like a child," he said serenely.
Delilah S. Dawson
#5. I ... having filled my life with the spiritual blessings Christianity gave me, brimful of these blessings and living by them, I, like a child, not understanding them, destroy them
that is, I wish to destroy that by which I live.
Leo Tolstoy
#6. He's like a child, but without a child's capacity for joy.
Eva Heller
#7. I have fun like a child in the street. When the day comes when I'm not enjoying it, I will leave football.
Lionel Messi
#8. Mizzy has, again, wandered into the garden, like a child who feels no fealty to adult conversation.
Michael Cunningham
#9. You are a most effective killer, Michel. Is it true you wept like a child when they killed your sister? That you cried out in agony as if the sword had pierced your own heart? Such compassion. Does your handiwork not bring you to tears as well?
P.A. Minyard
#10. I need a moment of time for myself every day, like a child playing with his things. When I travel, I routinely find a quiet place, open my diary and write something in it.
Orhan Pamuk
#11. Sir Isaac Newton is said to have avowed that he felt like a child picking up shells beside the great and unexplored ocean of truth.
Mary Shelley
#12. You treat me like a child, but I know what I fucking know. You're scared. Love comes with responsibilities, and you've been hiding from them your whole life.
Bijou Hunter
#13. Be like a child - clear, loving, spontaneous, infinitely flexible and ready each moment to wonder and accept a miracle.
Mother Meera
#14. Like a child, the earth's going to sleep,
or so the story goes.
But I'm not tired, it says.
And the mother says, You may not be tired but I'm tired
Louise Gluck
#15. Both of you think happiness is this thing you have to chase after, like a child with a shiny toy. It won't happen until you start finding ways to take care of other people instead of ways to please yourself.
Lisa Kleypas
#16. I always entreat the good Lord to give me my childhood back, that is to say, to grant that I may see nature and render it like a child, without prejudice.
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
#17. What an incredible witness it is to a lost and fearful society when the Christian acts like a child of God, living under the loving sovereignty of the Heavenly Father.
Henry Blackaby
#18. Why does it always seem that I have only the shadow of my father? I'm like a child constantly grabbing at his coattails and missing.
Libba Bray
#19. D'Artagnan obeyed like a child, without resistance or even objection, which proves that he was very positively in love.
Alexandre Dumas
#20. Honour looked so much like a child herself, confined to bed, a white nightgown, like one of those maudlin Victorian dolls. Her cheeks were red, like someone had painted them, but I knew it was from rubbing, wiping away her melancholy.
Ruth Ahmed
#21. Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.
Gary Hamel
#22. Money is like a child - rarely unaccompanied. When it disappears, look to those who were supposed to be keeping an eye on it while you were at the grocery store. You might also look for someone who has a lot of extra children sitting around, with long, suspicious explanations for how they got there.
Lemony Snicket
#23. A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
Arthur Miller
#24. The divine is a mystery, so the impulse to really discover, like a child, has to be the core response to anything.
Darrell Calkins
#25. When you think like a child your imagination is free and anything is possible.
Criss Angel
#26. Africa is like a child that immediately cries for its babysitter when something goes wrong. Africa should stand on its own two feet.
James Shikwati
#27. The child is really an artist, and the artist should be like a child, but he should not stay a child. He must become an artist. That means he cannot permit himself to become sentimental or something like that. He must know what he is doing
Hans Hofmann
#28. I am like a child ready for the apocalypse, I am the apocalypse itself, that is to say, the ultimate and first event of the end, the unveiling and the verdict.
Jacques Derrida
#29. The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wash public telephone booths and the glass over traffic lights? Every time I see someone doing these things, I smile like a child.
Jonathan Carroll
#30. So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination. Forget all the worldly knowledge that thou hast acquired and become as a child, and then will thou get the divine wisdom.
Ramakrishna
#31. Adversity and hardship are the building stones of character. How can you appreciate good times and savor happiness if you have never dealt with ill fortune, discomfort and sorrow. It's like a child learning the difference between hot and cold. RW
Rob Wood
#32. Say you can't put one foot in front of the other, you punch like a child, and you're not flexible at all. We'll show you some aikido, some ground jujitsu, some gun stuff, some knife moves. We can make a pretty good-size dent with that.
Chad Stahelski
#33. Prayer is spiritual communication between man and God, a two-way relationship in which man should not only talk to God but also listen to Him. Prayer to God is like a child's conversation with his father. It is natural for a child to ask his father for the things he needs.
Billy Graham
#34. I kind of resent the suggestion that there would be something inherent about superheroes that wouldn't be of interest to women. That makes me nuts. I'm a 5-foot tall woman with a quick temper who always looks like a child, so power fantasies are not strange to me.
Kelly Sue DeConnick
#35. The resurrection is to be like a child, but with a difference. The difference is that we have freedom with wisdom instead of innocence.
Miguel Ruiz
#36. She was crawling out from under the huge tour bus when he first caught sight of her. She was small, like a child.
Christine Feehan
#37. An album is like a child and after a while I was ready to give birth!
Gloria Trevi
#38. He was like a child with haemophilia: every contact drew blood.
Graham Greene
#39. It's just so wonderful to have someone in the house like a child to turn your attention to. It's not about you anymore, it's about this lovely little human being.
Elton John
#40. The idea of a slow approach to the luxury of leisure drove him wild. He was, of course, progressing toward it, but, like a child eating his ice cream so slowly that he couldn't taste it at all.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#41. Civilization sails prettily like a child's rubber balloon until it hits a sharp object; then it is likely to collapse like the balloon.
Austin O'Malley
#42. Every band I've been in, it's just become my total life. I feel like a child star - I've missed out on so much.
Kathleen Hanna
#43. A man should be like a child with his wives, but if they need him, he
should act like a man
Umar
#44. There is no suffering like a child's, terrified by a secret which it dare not for some reason disclose.
Anna Katharine Green
#45. When I was a child of four I wasn't really drawing like a child, I wasn't sketching as a child. I would sketch and I was using perspective, the good relationship of the subject.
Arman
#46. This old man had just humiliated me - and I sat there taking his ridicule like a child. I curled up on the vanity stool and sobbed for what felt like forever, in the one little corner of this whole giant mansion that was supposed to be my own.
Holly Madison
#47. Recovery on the med model requires you to be obedient, like a child," she explains. "You are obedient to your doctors, you are compliant with your therapist, and you take your meds. There's no striving toward greater intellectual concerns. (123)
Robert Whitaker
#48. Angie's house looked like a child's drawing of a mansion: It was so generic it was barely three-dimensional.
Gillian Flynn
#49. Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.
George Eliot
#50. The land's fruitfulness is the "natural" consequence of covenant faithfulness enacted on both sides, Israel's and God's. A productive land is a gift something like a child to a healthy marriage; in each case, thriving results from and witnesses to long-sustained faithfulness between two partners.
Ellen F. Davis
#51. I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
#52. As he turned round and drove away, he saw her standing in the driveway, in her white dress, looking for all the world like a child dropped off against her will after a custody weekend.
Pico Iyer
#54. When things have gone really wrong in my life, I've cried like a child. I have really, really cried. I cry it out. Two-three days I cry, and then I'm like, enough, time to deal with reality and figure a way out. This is the way I have dealt with everything.
Bipasha Basu
#55. She touched his shoulder, very lightly, like a child fingering a forbidden object.
Ross Macdonald
#56. Well, you have now, Sam, dear Sam,' said Frodo, and he lay back in Sam's gentle arms, closing his eyes, like a child at rest when night-fears are driven away by some loved voice or hand. Sam felt that he could sit like that in endless happiness ...
J.R.R. Tolkien
#57. Your brother beat him almost to death, Temujin. He held him and kicked him until he cried like a child. He is afraid of you, so he hates you. It would be wrong to hurt him again. It would be like beating a dog after it has loosed it's bladder. The spirit is already broken in him.
Conn Iggulden
#58. A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.
George Bernard Shaw
#59. The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.
James Fenton
#61. We should always do something that makes us feel like a child again. Keep learning, no matter what it is.
Rita Dove
#62. To me, the sea is like a person - like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea, I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there.
Gertrude Ederle
#64. Even now, standing in the same room with Torin made him feel like a child, gave him a peculiar urge to be unruly. He
Marissa Meyer
#65. You know you may feel very sad like a child whose toy is broken; but then you know sun rises, life continues and you start laughing again!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#66. I just feel very often like a child in an absolutely weird world. I think that life is quite weird sometimes.
Cecelia Ahern
#67. Reading the books, I've always loved reading. It was easier than talking. Like a child playing games.
Elise Kova
#68. Do not look for signs.
Do not look for experiences.
Do not be so complicated.
Become like a child.
See everything with awe.
Robert Adams
#69. I am giving birth. I am midwife to myself. Now is a new life full of possibilities. I must be strong like a child.
Patricia Robin Woodruff
#70. You are still thinking like a child, talking about friendship and crap. You'll regret it when you see one of them die in front of you.
Charles Lee
#71. Don't kiss me like a woman if you're going to treat me like a child.
Jeaniene Frost
#72. Miss the present and you live in boredom. BE in the present and you will be surprised that there is no boredom at all. Start by looking around a little more like a child. Be a child again! That's what meditation is all about: being a child again - a rebirth, being innocent again, not-knowing.
Rajneesh
#73. That's my fault, of course, because I behaved stupidly, like a child, because I didn't like feeling rejected. I need to learn to lose a little better.
Paula Hawkins
#74. You stupid, conceited fool! You know nothing! You're like a child, blind to everything but its own empty stomach! Well, grow up, Carl, and join the real world. Until you do, for God's sake leave me be!
Amanda Browning
#75. Days of wine and roses laugh and run away, like a child at play.
Johnny Mercer
#76. The spiritually starving hesitate to partake of the Spirit like a child's reaction to new and strange food. They must be offered a tiny bite on a spoon.
Boyd K. Packer
#77. I want to be spoiled like a child. Cry to my heart's content. But I can only suppress my feelings..
Ai Yazawa
#78. For instance, a man generally doesn't even know how small a woman is until he holds an article of her clothing up in front of him, one of her nightgowns, say, and sees how small and flimsy it is and how like a child's and unlike his own, and how thick and heavy his hands seem.
Russell Banks
#79. Life and the universe compare to each other like a child and a parent, parent and offspring.
Dimitar Sasselov
#80. The public loves to create a hero ... Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like a child who builds a house of blocks and then destroys it with one vicious kick.
Grace Metalious
#81. Another cardinal rule of thinking like a child: don't be afraid of the obvious.
Steven D. Levitt
#83. After waiting four long years since the Lost CHIC Tapes were recovered, I'm finally putting out our first record. I'm like a child waiting for Christmas morning.
Nile Rodgers
#84. The whole business was like a child's toy that you could buy at the dime store, all built in this wonderful way that you could explain in Life magazine so that really a five-year-old can understand what's going on ... This was the greatest surprise for everyone.
Max Delbruck
#85. The secret of staying young is to be simple and happy like a child.
Debasish Mridha
#86. I don't think that left to its own devices, capitalism moves along smoothly and everyone gets treated fairly in the process. Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.
Tavis Smiley
#87. Your hair is like butterflies," Sebastian said, giggling like a child.
"That's nice," Firen said impatiently. "Keep moving."
"Fantastic. I always like my days better with a touch of insanity," Gabriella quipped.
Laura Kreitzer
#89. In heaven I will find you.
Among the pigeons and scraped bodies. The sky's spinning round and
round. Vultured color. Darkness throbbing. Like a child spun round
and round. It does not stop.
Rauan Klassnik
#90. She can kill with a smile. She can wound with her eyes. She can ruin your faith with her casual lies. And she only reveals what she wants you to see. She hides like a child, but she's always a woman to me.
Billy Joel
#91. Play like a child, because you are still that beautiful child.
Bryant McGill
#92. Some people never say the words 'I love you', for like a child they're longing to be told.
Paul Simon
#93. When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth.
Billy Wilder
#94. In France, anyone can use your music on like a TV show or whatever - they don't need to ask permission. It's almost like a child when it has its own life.
Thomas Mars
#95. Those who submit like a child do it because they know that the Father wants only the happiness of His children and that only He knows the way. That is the testimony we must have to keep praying like a submissive child, in the good times as well as the times of trouble.
Henry B. Eyring
#96. And like a child, I'd be testing the people who loved me, pulling away from them almost for the sole reason of seeing if anyone would come after me.
Robin Hobb
#97. My real passion is to make movies, to direct. It's good for my ego to be an actress. It's like someone is saying, 'Yes, you're beautiful! Yes, you're doing fine!' But I feel like a child when I'm an actress.
Maiwenn
#98. Laughter not only makes the journey endurable and even enjoyable, it also helps keep us healthy ... Be like a child: learn to laugh more!
Joyce Meyer
#99. It's like, to me, acting is like a child walking in the park, the better the actor, the greater the playground he has.
Logan Lerman
