Top 421 Childish Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak.

My preparation for roles are less about the character's profession than who they are, what their dreams are, and in what way are they childish.

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

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

I think that I was quite a grown-up child, and I have been a pretty childish adult.

Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.

Every second is mapped out and he has this total childish fascination with color and shapes and sequences.

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

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.

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.

Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided 'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear.

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

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

For me, it's very childish to tour on a train. And I think that's a powerful quality, to inspire childishness.

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.

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

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.

In the last few years everything I'd done up to sixty or so has seemed very childish.

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

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 cherish my childish loves--the memory of that warm little nest where my affections were fledged.

Optimists are childish; they even believe they can find an ice cream store in the hell!

Just as many who were brought up to think of God as a bearded old gentleman sitting on a cloud decided that when they stopped believing in such a being they had therefore stopped believing in God, so many who were taught to think of hell as a literal underground location full of worms and fire...decided that when they stopped believing in that, so they stopped believing in hell. The first group decided that because they couldn't believe in childish images of God, they must be atheists. The second decided that because they couldn't believe in childish images of hell, they must be universalists.

Once I turned pro, so to speak, I put away childish things forever.

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

The Bible is a collection of honorable, but primitive legends which are still nevertheless pretty childish.

War is a foolish, childish, animalistic, unthinking, unintelligent way of trying to accomplish a purpose.

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.

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

I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things.

'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.

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

We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Let's abolish the term 'childish' because adults normally cause the largest problems.

The glamour Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast Down in the flood of remembrance.

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

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

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.

For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.

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.

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

Censors, the whole idea of it, is so childish. You feel like you're talking to hall monitors in school again.

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

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

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

When a man says it's a silly childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at.

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

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

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.