Top 421 Childish Quotes & Sayings

An honest government is the childish dream of the gullible men!

Dying people often become childish.

I watched them from the window, thy children at their play, And I thought of all my own dear friends, who were far, oh, far away, And childish loves, and childish cares, and a child's own buoyant gladness Came gushing back again to me with a soft and solemn sadness; And feelings frozen up full long, and thoughts of long ago, Seemed to be thawing at my heart with a warm and sudden flow.

Inside, I feel 30ish - I'm childish and optimistic.

You can be childlike without being childish.

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

Totally girly - love all the childish sounds.

Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct. Kindness, gentleness, long suffering, forbearance, patience, sympathy, a willingness to enter into childish troubles, a readiness to take part in childish joys, - these are the cords by which a child may be led most easily, - these are the clues you must follow if you would find the way to his heart.

To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.

It may be a childish torment, but we do not get to choose our demons.

Deep meaning lies often in childish play.

Modern art is childish - not childlike, remember, childish; not innocent but stupid, insane, pathological. We have to get rid of this trend. We have to create a new kind of art, a new kind of creativity. We have to bring to the world again what Gurdjieff calls objective art.

Be childish. Be irresponsible. Be disrespectful. Be everything this society hates.

When someone accuses you of being 'childish', I think you should take it as a compliment.

It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.

Be like children , Not childish BUT childlike.

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

Dance constitutes a true recapturing of... freedom and childish play.

Childish egocentrism is, in its essence, an inability to differentiate between the ego and the social environment.

The discussion of fur is childish.

Genius has somewhat of the infantine; but of the childish not a touch or taint.

She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.

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 because. wow, then I could afford much *better* childish things!

I always want to have fun and be silly and be childish. I'm very childish. I am at my happiest when I am a child and I am just playing.

For kids like me, being called childish can be a frequent occurrence. Every time we make irrational demands, exhibit irresponsible behavior, or display any other signs of being normal American citizens, we are called childish.

Mother said," mocked the king. "Don't be childish." "We're children," Myrcella declared haughtily. "We're supposed to be childish." The Hound laughed. "She has you there.

Our memory is childish and it saves only what we need.

I've produced all of Childish Gambino's music.

When I pray, I never pray for myself, always for others, or else I hold a silly, naive, or deadly serious dialogue with what is deepest inside me, which for the sake of convenience I call God. Praying to God for something for yourself strikes me as being too childish for words. To pray for another's well-being is something I find childish as well; one should only pray that another should have enough strength to shoulder his burden. If you do that, you lend him some of your own strength.

Avoiding the physical sciences due to the fear that they will lead to heresy is childish.

inventiveness is childish, practice sublime.

You can’t confuse childlike faith with childish thinking.

It's like a childish dream come true to be in 'Doctor Who' and to be an alien.

Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.

That's all life is - something childish and very natural. Isn't it?

It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.

More childish valorous than manly wise.

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.

At some point free expression absolutism becomes childish and unserious.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws.

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.

Kira is childish and hates to lose. I am also childish and hate to lose.

I think I really believed my childish thoughts back then. Using the determination of the poor, the childish thought that I can do it if I tried with all my might. But in reality...I never did get to defeat him. No. I couldn't beat him.

Not every age is fit for childish sports.

I asked myself childish questions and proceeded to answer them.

Bigotry and demonisation of difference are usually the hallmark of immature and childish minds.

We're children. We're supposed to be childish.

You ought not to practice childish ways, since you are no longer that age.

Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.

The children of childish parents age quickly.

Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?

A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.

Writers to some extent are childish, and it's at the childish level that one really engages with any experience. What really moves you is at the very personal, childish level of the imagination. My business is the imagination, and my imagination is engaged by Asia.

Many theories of the ancient world seem terribly childish today, a hodge-podge of fables and false comparisons.But our theories will seem childish five-hundred years from now.Every theory is based on some analogy, and sooner or later the theory fails because the analogy turns out to be false. A theory in its day helps to solve the problems of the day.

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.

If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.

You say he's childish, but he's very professional about business transactions.