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Childishness Quotes

Isaac Asimov quote: "Childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a..."
...Childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child... Isaac Asimov
Tom Hanks quote: "childish, selfish, immature - that's right, I am. But do you..."
...childish, selfish, immature - that's right, I am. But do you know how much money I make for thinking this way? Tom Hanks
When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up. C. S. Lewis
Isaac Asimov quote: "It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes..."
It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child. Isaac Asimov
As men obsessed with the idea that all knowledge lies within a woman's body, but having entered it to find themselves as ignorant as before, they are driven towards all women again and again: in childish hope that somehow the next time they will find the treasure, and then the equally childish desire for revenge since it cannot be found, that knife in the unfathomable entrails; and they grow full of hatred. John McGahern
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. George R. R. Martin
C. S. Lewis quote: "When I became a man I put away childish things, including the..."
When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up. C. S. Lewis
What but a pestilential vapour can hover over society when its chief director is only instructed in the invention of crimes, or the stupid routine of childish ceremonies? Mary Wollstonecraft
How clearly I have seen my condition, yet how childishly I have acted. How clearly I still see it, and yet show no sign of improvement. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thus it is said: The path into light seems dark, the path forward seems to go back, the direct path seems long, true power seems weak... the greatest love seems indifferent, the greatest wisdom seems childish. Lao Tzu
You figured most of them would probably marry dopey guys. Guys that talk about how many miles they get to a gallon in their goddam cars. Guys that get sore and childish as hell if you beat them at golf, or even just some stupid game like ping-pong. Guys that are very mean. Guys that never read books. J. D. Salinger
The walls of this elevator are made of crystal so that you can watch the people on the ground floor shrink to ants as you shoot up into the air. It's exhilarating and I'm tempted to ask Effie Trinket if we can ride it again, but somehow that seems childish. Suzanne Collins
Philip K. Dick quote: "When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put..."
When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. ... I must be scientific. Philip K. Dick
How strange was the relation between parents and children! When they were small the parents doted on them, passed through agonies of apprehension at each childish ailment, and the children clung to their parents with love and adoration; a few years passed, the children grew up, and persons not of their kin were more important to their happiness than father or mother. Indifference displaced the blind and instinctive love of the past. Their meetings were a source of boredom and irritation.... W. Somerset Maugham
Pete thinks we all have a blacking factory: some awful moment, early on, when we surrender our childish hearts as surely as we lose our baby teeth. Armistead Maupin

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