Top 1200 Childish Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I have always directed my attempts at the figurative representation of objects by way of summary and not very descriptive brushstrokes, diverging greatly from the real objective measurements of things, and this has led many people to talk about childish drawing.. ..this position of seeing them (the objects) without looking at them too much, without focussing more attention on them than any ordinary man would in normal everyday life..

There is often seen this anomaly in women, especially in those of childish natures,--that they possess at once great promptness and unskilfulness in falsehood.

My comedy is for children from three to 93. You do need a slightly childish sense of humour and if you haven't got that, it's very sad.

There is a mixture of evil in everything we do; indulgence encourages us to encroach, while we Crabbe exercise the rights of children, we become childish.

The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?

We grow up to respect the gray. Black or white, one or the other, is childish. It represents the worldview of someone who does not know the world.

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

Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

You can play Bach on the piano, a symphony orchestra or a quartet of saxophones, but let's stop this silly, childish business of knit your own musicology

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding, it is impossible to acquire even the most rudimentary knowledge.

The reality is that religion, across the board, and in and of itself, neither provokes war nor promotes peace - and it is childish and naive, not to mention utopian, to believe otherwise.

It is the ignorant and childish part of mankind that is the fighting part. Idle and vacant minds want excitement

It was all very childish. Why on earth should Edward have to leave for Jacob to come over? Weren't we past this immaturity?

The biggest awakening is the awakening from the childish deceptions and the invented tales of the religion.

When we're in that kind of childish space, we're more genuine and feel more comfortable with our friends.

You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?'

It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm further off from heaven Than when I was a boy.

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

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.

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

I could wish for nothing more than to die for a childish dream in which I truly believed.

We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness.

I walked onstage in a play at prep school, and with childish naivete, told myself, 'Wow, I'm an actor!'

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.

I did a short film with Donald Glover for one of his Childish Gambino projects, and Flying Lotus was an actor in it.

If God is playing hide and seek with us, I must confess that I am quite bored with this childish game!

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.

When I looked at Ioniq, I thought about something in a childish way: If a thunder hits the car, will it recharge?

I am often accused of being childish. I prefer to interpret that as child-like. I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things. I tend to exaggerate and fantasize and embellish. I still listen to instinctual urges. I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. I never water my garden without soaking myself. It has been after such times of joy that I have achieved my greatest creativity and produced my best work.

Childish Gambino - him and I are the same age, and I really like him.

My eyes are dim with childish tears, My heart is idly stirred, For the same sound is in my ears Which in those days I heard.

The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.

The music business is the most childish business in the world. Nobody knows what they're selling or why, but they sell it if it works.

I must go on living. And, though it may be childish of me, I can't go on in simple compliance. From now on I must struggle with the world. I thought that Mother might well be the last of those who can end their lives beautifully and sadly, struggling with no one, neither hating nor betraying anyone. In the world to come there will be no room for such people. The dying are beautiful, but to live, to survive – those things somehow seem hideous and contaminated with blood.

At my house, it's an, 'If dad says it, you can say it' kind of deal, so a lot of my slang words come off very childish at this point in my career.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

How much more infinite a sea is man? Be not so childish as to measure him from head to foot and think you have found his borders.

It was juvenile, he knew, this need to assign blame, but everyone had a right to childish emotions from time to time, didn't they?

As a child I experiences everything in a childish way... I thought I was experiencing a kind of warmth and a kind of embracing love as a God.

I have a very childish attitude to books - a very non-analytic enthusiasm... like Alice falling down the chute.

Magic has both feet planted in cheap vaudeville and childish posturing; in dishonesty and therefore not in art.

I just want to say, creating music with Childish Gambino has been one of the greatest joys of my life.

Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.

Sweet childish days, that were as long, As twenty days are now.

Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting.

'Redbone' from Childish Gambino - that is my ideal summer tune. It's already gone and done its thing, but I want it to live on forever.

I think it is childish for men to joke about women's clothes, to make fun of our hats, to complain over the cost of a good fur coat.

It's probably a form of childish curiosity that keeps me going as a fiction writer. I ... want to open everybody's bureau drawers and see what they keep in there. I'm nosy.

I really wanted to be a newspaper cartoonist, but nobody liked my work. I didn't have the control or flair that was necessary to create something that didn't look childish.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

Hippo in a skirt: this was a comic reference to one of Solomon's principal wives, the one from Moab. Childish? Yes. But in the days before printing we had limited opportunities for satire.

Learn to get excited like a child. There is nothing that has more magic than childish excitement.

For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial.

Yet for all the childish innocence of its bizarre glamor, Venice developed an atmosphere, or became the outpost of a sinister deep-rooted power.... It is a place of dreams, not only the tinseled ones.

We get older and more sophisticated and a bit cleverer, but certainly boys - and men - are as childish and basic as we ever were.

I finally learned that doing what I want isn't love. I don't want to hurt him again by acting childish.