Quotes About Childlikeness

#1. Childish, selfish, immature - that's right, I am. But do you know how much money I make for thinking this way?

Tom Hanks

#2. I seek spirituality and self-knowledge.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. Boyishness - by which I mean animal life in its fullest measure, good nature and honest impulses, hatred of injustice and meanness, and thoughtlessness enough to sink a three-decker.

Thomas Hughes

#4. I have come to see more and more that one of the most decisive steps that the Negro can take is that little walk to the voting booth. That is an important step. We've got to gain the ballot, and through that gain, political power.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#5. What makes a man's 80 year-old Irish uncle skip like a little boy? Me Father is very fond of me!

John Ortberg Jr.

#6. Animals, like us, have rich and spacious interiors. They contain inner landscapes: desert places and lonely canyons, cliffs of madness and rivers or serene awareness that merge in tranquil seas.

Gary A. Kowalski

#7. I really want to help people. I really want to give somebody that hope that they need to keep going.

Pattie Mallette

#8. Any teacher in the arts and sciences has to maintain a sense of childlikeness to be truly inventive.

Chris Raschka

#9. An obscenely long, coarse kermit cock is being dragged across my anguished face.

Andrew Hussie

#10. I think it's ridiculous that we even have to talk about gay rights as rights ... It's gonna be as shocking as the treatment of slaves someday.

Regina Spektor

#11. I've always loved men.

Jacqueline Bisset

#12. God sends little children to speak and act for him. In their simplicity and naivety they say and do things that we adults never would, but which can reveal deep truths about the way the world should be, if we only would have ears to hear and eyes to see...

Phil Steer

#13. The poet believed that 'Beauty' first entered the world not at its creation, nor with the first garden, the first sunrise, the birth of the first man and woman and their first sexual act. The poet believed that 'Beauty' entered the world the day the first child blushed.

Roman Payne

#14. Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of being alone, whereas defensiveness and scorn are a participation in precisely what, by these means, you want to separate yourself from.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#15. Jesus," said Clary.
"I doubt he'd fit (in the wooden box)."
"Jace." Clary was apalled.
-Clary & Jace, pg.255-

Cassandra Clare

#16. Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential, but because they are as enormous as life itself.

Anthony Esolen

#17. Let kindness reveal your humanity.

Jeffrey A. White

#18. Dim vision ages us rapidly, and we lose the childlikeness that once made us feel like real princes and princesses in a kingdom. We can be young and yet feel old. Heavy laden. Burdened. In a pit where vision is lost and dreams are foolishness.

Beth Moore

#19. When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.

Pablo Picasso