Childish Things Quotes

• 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

  Growing Up, Fear, Healing

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Fear, Children, Growing Up

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Frederick Buechner

  Children, Remembrance, Things To Do

  Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco

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• We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Brian Baumgartner

  Enjoy Life, Enthusiasm, Sometimes

  "Brian Baumgartner (Kevin) Accounts for The Office's Success". Interview with Sabrina Rojas Weiss, www.tvguide.com. February 1, 2007.

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• 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.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Children, Childhood, Age

  Wine from these Grapes (1934) "Childhood is the Kingdom where Nobody dies"

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• Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.

  C. S. Lewis

  Childhood, Adults, Approval

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

  Dream, Believe, Wish

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• 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.

  Barack Obama

  Ideas, Promise, Generations

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• 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.

  Rita Dove

  Children, Writing

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• I am often accused of being childish. I prefer to interpret that as child-like. I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things. I tend to exaggerate and fantasize and embellish. I still listen to instinctual urges. I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. I never water my garden without soaking myself. It has been after such times of joy that I have achieved my greatest creativity and produced my best work.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Running, Children, Creativity

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• Childhood Is the Kingdom Where Nobody Dies.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Children, Childhood, Kingdoms

  Wine from these Grapes (1934) "Childhood is the Kingdom where Nobody dies"

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• When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away childish things because. wow, then I could afford much *better* childish things!

  Terry Pratchett

  Children, Men, Bvb

  "Fictional character: Admiral Sir Edward Pellew". "Horatio Hornblower 3", www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• I do think it's good to remember that childish things are made for children, and that, however pleasantly lurid the promise of a return to the clarity of childhood may be, an infatuation with the childish reveals only that one has failed to grow past it.

  Lauren Faust

  Children, Past, Thinking

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

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Men, Japan, France

  P. J. O'Rourke (2016). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of . . .”, p.93, Pan Macmillan

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• Whereas when I was a teenager, other teenagers didn't want anything to do with me. It was even like that in college to a degree. People of that age don't want anything to do with their childhood, because they had put away childish things, and they're trying to distance themselves.

  Mara Wilson

  Distance, Teenager, College

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

  Gene Wilder

  Children, Stupid, Silly

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Jean Ingelow

  Flower, Good Day, Light

  Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.264

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

  C. S. Lewis

  Adults, Approval, Treats

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Desire, Adults

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• Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all - no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological; it is no good at all unless it is let alone to be itself - a game of make-believe, or re-production, very exciting and delightful to people who have an ear for it or an eye for it.

  Willa Cather

  Art, Believe, Eye

  Willa Cather (1988). “Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art”, p.125, U of Nebraska Press

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• 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.'

  David Carr

  Forever, One Day, Wake Up

  David Carr (2012). “The Night of the Gun”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Ben Fountain

  Writing, College, Two

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• 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

  Children

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “The Man in the High Castle”, p.242, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Glenn Gould

  Forever, Speak

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