Quotes About Childish People

#1. Therefore flee the company of childish people. Greet them, when you meet, with smiles That keep on terms of common courtesy, Without inviting intimate relations.

Santideva

#2. 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.

John Taylor Gatto

#3. I hang around kids so people will assume when I act like one it's because I'm babysitting.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#4. 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

#5. I like feeling at home and knowing people. I like talking about ideas and being friendly.

Billy Childish

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

Jay Sankey

#7. The people with the strong, brave exteriors are just as weak and vulnerable as the rest of us. And of course they never admit to their childish practices, their moments of weakness or absurdity, and then the rest of us think that's how it should be.

Alexander McCall Smith

#8. Dying people often become childish.

Georg Buchner

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

Karl Lagerfeld

#10. There was only greed for living and dread, and out of dread, out of stupid childish dread of the cold, of loneliness, of death, two people fled to one another, kissed, embraced, rubbed cheek to cheek, put leg to leg, cast new human beings into the world. That was how it was.

Hermann Hesse

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

Adam Smith

#12. 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.

Geri Halliwell

#13. Single people without children have a childish sensitivity and are unwilling or unable to compromise or fit in

Ninni Holmqvist

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

Billy Childish

#15. Adam knew it was childish, but he rationalized it in this way: carelessly harming other people was a decent stand-in for baseline human interaction.

Warren Ellis

#16. The walls of this elevator are made of crystal so that you can watch the people on the ground floor shrink to ants as you shoot up into the air. It's exhilarating and I'm tempted to ask Effie Trinket if we can ride it again, but somehow that seems childish.

Suzanne Collins

#17. When one came to know them it was surprising how childish grown people could be.

Rumer Godden

#18. Another lesson to file away about Scotland: insulting other people in a childish manner was the national pastime.

Molly Ringle

#19. While analyzing so many people I realized the constant need of a mother, or a father, or a god (the same thing) is really immaturity. It is a childish need, a human need, but so universal that I can see how it gave birth to all religions.

Anais Nin

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

Wayne Dyer

#21. 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.

Daryl Hall

#22. There were people who believed Herzog was rather simple, that his humane feelings were childish. That he had been spared the destruction of certain sentiments as the pet goose is spared the axe.

Saul Bellow

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. Why talk about what we want? That is childish. Absurd. Of course, you are interested in what you want. You are eternally interested in it. But no one else is. The rest of us are just like you: we are interested in what we want.

Dale Carnegie

#26. Americans are an honest people, we expect a fair deal. I know that a lot of other cultures used to think that was naive and even childish, but it's one of our most sacred principles.

Max Brooks

#27. Time passes, people move. Like a river's flow, it never ends. A childish mind will turn to noble ambition. Young love will become deep affection. The clear water's surface reflects growth. Now listen to the Serenade of water to reflect upon yourself.

Sheik

#28. 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.

Janet Jackson

#29. One night I realized that when you give people understanding and encouragement a funny little meek childish look abashes their eyes, no matter what they've been doing they weren't sure it was right - lambies all over the world.

Jack Kerouac

#30. The problem with inner child is that if it keeps showing too often, people label you as childish.

Shon Mehta

#31. We believe in a society in delusion, and if you're awake and not deluded people tell you you're mad. That's why I'm a freak and they're not. But I'm actually not.

Billy Childish

#32. 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.

Carl Jung

#33. It takes a childish or corrupt imagination to make symbols of other people.

Tobias Wolff

#34. It is my childish mind that thinks people are ready to give it just because you need it.

Saul Bellow

#35. I'm childish and silly. Most people tease me because I'm a bit daft.

Harriet Walter

#36. There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.

Adrian Edmondson

#37. People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion.

Billy Childish

#38. To you a pious young girl who goes to mass and communion, seems pretty silly and childish; you take us for innocents ... Well, let me tell you, sometimes we know more about evil than people who have only learned to offend God.

Georges Bernanos

#39. Not having yet passed through those bitter experiences which enforce upon older years circumspection and coldness, I deprived myself of the pure delight of a fresh, childish instinct for the absurd purpose of trying to resemble grown-up people.

Leo Tolstoy

#40. Anna was saying to herself: why do I always have this awful need to make other people see things as I do? It's childish, why should they? What it amounts to is that I'm scared of being alone in what I feel.

Doris Lessing

#41. People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish ... but that's only if it's done properly.

Banksy

#42. The day will come, sooner or later, when people will wonder at the necessity of taking all this trouble to expose the folly of a system, so childish and absurd, and yet so often enforced at the point of a bayonet.

Jean-Baptiste Say

#43. 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.

Criss Jami

#44. 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.

Tariq Ramadan