Top 41 Quotes About Childish Things
#1. Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#2. Don't curse a child for doing childish things, but don't 'courage him none neither.
T. Geronimo Johnson
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. Once I turned pro, so to speak, I put away childish things forever.
Glenn Gould
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. I do think it's good to remember that childish things are made for children, and that, however pleasantly lurid the promise of a return to the clarity of childhood may be, an infatuation with the childish reveals only that one has failed to grow past it.
Lauren Faust
#12. To apply oneself to great inventions, starting from the smallest beginnings, is no task for ordinary minds; to divine that wonderful arts lie hid behind trivial and childish things is a conception for superhuman talents.
Galileo Galilei
#13. The ancient wisdoms are modern nonsenses. Live in your own time, use what we know, and as you grow up, perhaps the human race will finally grow up with you and put aside childish things.
Salman Rushdie
#14. 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
#15. What makes you think children like childish things? Don't tell them how to be children. They want to grow up.
M.B. Goffstein
#16. 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
#17. I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things.
Brian Baumgartner
#18. A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.'
Gene Wilder
#19. You have to live spherically - in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm - and things will come your way.
Federico Fellini
#20. I think I still keep my sense of wonder, which I call childlike, not childish, childlike. I still have a vivid imagination, and I like to try a lot of new things.
Iris Apfel
#21. 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
#22. In my serious work I am striving for the essence of things and for goals which are possibly unobtainable. On the other hand, everything humorous has great attraction for me, and a childish streak leads me into all kinds of frivolous endeavour.
Philippe Halsman
#23. Our apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by.
Virginia Woolf
#24. So, the tendency of our childish nature is to take small things too seriously and get easily offended, whereas when we are confronted with situations which have long-term consequences, we tend to take things less seriously
Dalai Lama
#25. Well, the old Autumn didn't know anything about reality. The old Autumn was quite happy living in a childish make-believe world where bad things didn't happen and where you could make up whatever silly story you liked and tell yourself it was true.
Liz Kessler
#26. Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.
Jean Ingelow
#27. Those old things were still painful to think about, still bright with the childish primary colors of fear and horror.
Stephen King
#28. Put yourself into life and never lose your openness, your childish enthusiasm throughout the journey that is life, and things will come your way.
Federico Fellini
#29. Sarah liked to think that night was the best time to work on staying silly and childish. Darkness always seemed more understanding about those sorts of things. More accommodating. Tonight
Cat Hellisen
#30. I still feel childlike. Not childish - there's a difference. But to be childlike is to be savoured and treasured. I offer my books to those who like the things of childhood; the challenges, intrigue, joy and fun.
Graeme Base
#31. We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.
Aristotle.
#32. My favourite things are jokes, friendliness and feeling comfortable.
Billy Childish
#33. Plain singing is not childish, but only the singing with lifeless organs, with dancing, and cymbals, &c. Whence the use of such instruments, and other things fit for children, is laid aside and plain singing only retained.
Justin Martyr
#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. Heaven is going to be a vast, colorful tapestry of living things. God is a God of life ... Does this seem too childish and silly to believe? I certainly hope so, because that's a sure sign that it's true.
Anthony DeStefano
#36. 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
#37. Things that are truly great need nothing from me, and to somehow think that they do speaks to my utter lack of greatness.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#38. Giving the kids a programming environment of any sort, whether it's a tool like Squeak or Scratch or Logo to write programs in a childish way - and I mean that in the most generous sense of the word, that is, playing with and building things - is one of the best ways to learn.
Nicholas Negroponte
#39. 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
#40. As we grow spiritually, God begins to wean us from things that we think we can't live without: things, comfort, the longing for life to 'work.' That's a childish instinct, to say, 'Life has to work the way I want it to work, and now'.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#41. 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
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