Best Childish Things Quotes

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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

When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. … I must be scientific.

When I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from France and Japan.

The onset of adulthood is an organic, creeping process. No one wakes up one day and decides, ‘Lo, on this day I shall forever put away childish things and begin clipping coupons to go to Wal-Mart.’

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.

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.

A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you’d say, ‘That’s what a child would do.

Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.

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

Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.

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

Those who tread ‘adult’ as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I put away childish things, along with the desire to be very grown up.

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

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.

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.

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.

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

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.