Childish Quotes

The traits the word 'childish' addresses are seen so often in adults that we should abolish this age-discriminatory word when it comes to criticizing behavior associated with irresponsibility and irrational thinking.

Adora Svitak

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To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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

Meg White

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

Judith Viorst

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The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.

George W. S. Trow

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We Americans are childish about our celebrities and icons. We worship, then we denounce; we identify passionately with them and then, if they do something - anything - we dislike, we cast them off.

Margo Jefferson

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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.

Adora Svitak

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Adult actors are really childish, and that's nice to be around when you're a kid. So the big reason I wanted to be an actor was I really enjoyed actors' company - which probably makes me about as shallow as a puddle. But it could be worse. I could be working for a living.

Jack Davenport

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Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.

John Lydon

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

Christopher Marlowe

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

Frederick Buechner

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

James Anthony Froude

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

Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.

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

Karl Lagerfeld

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

Jean Piaget

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I just have this thing in my head that I want to do serious stories that are still just way too cute and drawn in a really cute, appealing, rounded, childish way, and it's like, I don't know if it makes sense - but it's just something I'm really strongly compelled to do.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

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

Friedrich Schiller

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I don't read 'genre' fiction if that means novels with lots of killing and shooting. Even Cormac McCarthy's 'No Country for Old Men' seemed pretty childish in that regard.

Geoff Dyer

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Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel.

Zadie Smith

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The Sermon on the Mount is a very nice piece about being good, but most of the Bible is a very revengeful, childish, brutal God.

Stellan Skarsgard

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When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and write.

Wolfgang Hildesheimer

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