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" A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection. "
Alexander Cockburn
" Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. "
James Anthony Froude
" Bobby Kennedy's conduct toward Lyndon Johnson was childish and despicable. As the years went on, he displayed nasty, self-pitying, and messianic qualities that would have made him a dangerously authoritarian president. "
Thomas Mallon
" Childish egocentrism is, in its essence, an inability to differentiate between the ego and the social environment. "
Jean Piaget
" Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays. "
Friedrich Schiller
" Dying people often become childish. "
Georg Buchner
" Every second is mapped out and he has this total childish fascination with color and shapes and sequences. "
Meg White
" For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency. "
Albert Ellis
" He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity. "
Mikhail Bakunin
" I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance. "
Christopher Marlowe
" 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
" If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child. "
Frederick Buechner
" 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. "
Andrew Davies
" I'm childish and silly. Most people tease me because I'm a bit daft. "
Harriet Walter
" Inside, I feel 30ish - I'm childish and optimistic. "
Suzi Quatro
" I walked onstage in a play at prep school, and with childish naivete, told myself, 'Wow, I'm an actor!' "
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
" 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
" Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions. "
Isaiah Berlin
" '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. "
Dua Lipa
" Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence. "
John Lydon
" Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood? "
Judith Viorst
" The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements. "
George W. S. Trow
" There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag. "
Adrian Edmondson
" 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. "
W. Somerset Maugham
" 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
" 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
" To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films. "
Alan Moore
" To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach. "
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
" We get older and more sophisticated and a bit cleverer, but certainly boys - and men - are as childish and basic as we ever were. "
Jim Broadbent
" 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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