Top 60 Childish Quotes

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

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.

I hope that there’s a difference between being childish and childlike and that I’m the latter, if you take my meaning. I often sort of wonder. I don’t think I’m a terribly good grown-up; I don’t take responsibility easily or well in many areas of life. Finance and stuff like that, I’m absolutely appalling.

I would have loved to work with Cranko. I love stories. Even though I like a lot of style – Forsythe, Maliphant – I have this childish side that likes stories.

I mean, it’s fine when you’re a kid and someone runs into the playground and goes, ‘I’ve got this great game of pretend,’ and you play… As an actor, getting to play, getting to use your imagination and be childish – it is weird but it’s wonderful.

I hear a lot of people singing in funny voices and singing like they’re stupid. Singing in a deliberately fey and dumb and childish way. And I find it to be a disturbing trend.

Risk is the sort of word that is easy to discuss upfront but tough to handle when it comes time to pay the piper. There will always be some who wimp out and second-guess when the pain hits, but that is a childish reaction.

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.

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.

Stop being childish. Use your time better – better yourself. Read a book, or do a workout exercise on YouTube.

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

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

I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.

In life, my childish behavior is the good kind, not to where it’s annoying and, ‘Wow, someone sit him down and give him a bottle, give him a Pamper.’ It’s like, ‘This situation is very heavy, but RJ is here, so he’ll lighten things up a little.’

Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don’t have to riot.

A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.

I see my share of loons. I just performed with someone who had a meltdown on stage. He needed focus, and he was ‘stealing it’ and just being crazy and selfish and childish and having a great time doing it – to the detriment of everybody else.

Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.

Dying people often become childish.

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

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate – unlike most films.

To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.

Both my mother’s younger sisters, Padmini and Tejaswini, are actresses. I am extremely close to Teju mausi, as I am quite similar to her. We both are adventurous, spontaneous, childish, impulsive, and a bit silly and have our own strange sense of humour.

I’m listening to Tame Impala, Mac DeMarco, Frank Ocean, Childish Gambino. I’m just trying to just get as many different inspirations as I can. I love artists that can adapt and have different styles.

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

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

In the case of, like, Childish Gambino, he is someone who is a writer by trade, so he is very meticulous about how he writes his ideas. I don’t do this with a lot of artist, but he would give me a treatment that he wants to do, and I’ll go off that; then I’ll give him feedback and pitch him my ideas.

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

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

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

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

Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.

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

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

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.

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

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.

Guilt’s too strong a word, but there is this niggling worry that I’m a grown-up doing a childish job and it would be nice to do something more useful and to reach a number of people with an idea you think is important.

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

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

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

Being an artist doesn’t just mean you have a song. That doesn’t make you an artist. The word ‘artist’ means so many different things, and I feel like to be a real one, you really have to do it all. The people that I think of as artists – Tyler the Creator, Childish Gambino, Kanye West – are doing the most.

We live in an age of technology and science that demands proof, and yet we desire mystery. But when God gives us mystery, we seek to destroy it by gross indifference or childish reasoning.

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.

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.

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

I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn’t go so far as to call it a talent. But it scared me. I felt it was a childish thing wanting to write and that I would forget about it eventually.

Losing my dad made me more mature. Being an only child, I didn’t have the right to act childish. I had to step up. I was earning money already in Turkey. I felt like I needed to protect the family and protect my mom and be a man.

Even if you’re the President of the United States, you still act like a little child and think like a little child sometimes. Childish behavior is what I look for in all of my characters because that is what makes them human.

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

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.

I got quite cross when I heard about Emma Thompson adapting ‘Sense and Sensibility.’ It was absolutely childish of me, but I thought, ‘I should be doing that. They didn’t even ask me.’ Some mistake, surely.

‘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.

All those teams I was on that were successful were the ones that everyone had love for each other and had fun. Things that seem minuscule – joking around, laughing, conversing, all those things that seem childish – that is what builds camaraderie.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.