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Quotes About Childlike

Michael is a kid, sort of, like, I mean, Michael is a kid himself; he's never really grown up.
~ Joe Jackson
Dealing with the Hippie is generally straightforward. His childlike nature will usually respond positively to drugs, sex, and/or rock and roll, although in which order these are to be deployed must depend on conditions specific to the moment.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Adults are just children who earn money.
~ Kenneth Branaugh
Truly, I am saying to you, Whoever does not receive the kingdom of God in the same manner as a little child, will positively not enter it.
~ Kenneth S. Wuest
I like French fries? I sound like a slow child in a made-for-TV movie.
~ Gayle Forman
She has the heart of a child, you know. Yeah, it's in a box beside her bed. - Kaia Skyhawk
~ Gena Showalter
I've kept alive my childlike innocence. I don't let anything or anyone dampen my zest for life. Now, that's very important.
~ Mumtaz
People look at me as sort of a diplomat for Turkey, which by nature, I'm not; I don't want to be. It's again about that playfulness. Being Turkey's voice or representative is not playful, it's not childlike; it makes me self-conscious, kills the child in me.
~ Orhan Pamuk
A lot of the stuff I tweet is out of childlike curiosity.
~ David Grann
I still feel like five years old every time I step on the court. It's my sanctuary...I want to maintain the fun at all times.
~ Kane Waselenchuk
The "feminine" woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her unchanging features tiny and girlish, her voice tinkly, her body stuck on a pin, rotating in a spiral that will never grow.
~ Susan Faludi
as frank and open and honest as the eye of a little child. It looks one in the face and knows no fear or shame. It has nothing to explain and need make no apologies.
~ Susan Orlean
You need to be silly sometimes.
~ Sadie Sink
I've always found Mr. Disney to be somewhat of a shy person, a kid at heart.
~ Annette Funicello
I have this sense of humour which is about as sophisticated as a seven-year-old schoolboy. I get very overexcited and silly.
~ Natasha Little
The great advantage of having a bear as a central character is that he can combine the innocence of a child with the sophistication of an adult.
~ Michael Bond
I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.
~ Rachel McAdams
Their contemplation seems to reconnect us with a childlike sense of wonder at the mysteries of the universe. They are literally other-worldly, and so remove us from the world and its cares; they lift us off the ground.
~ Tom Hodgkinson
Personally, I've found maturity an overrated quality except in wine, for both creative artists and lively people in general have much to gain from facing the world with the unsullied vision, flexible responses, and playful sensibilities of a child.
~ Tom Robbins
What does it mean to fear the Lord? It means to have awe and reverence for him. The woman who fears the Lord obeys from a heart of love for the God of the universe, who is also her heavenly Father! Her childlike fear of her heavenly Father leads her to faithful and faith-filled obedience.
~ Kimberly Hahn
Spiritual humility is not about getting small, not about debasing oneself, but about approaching everything and everyone else with a readiness to see goodness and to be surprised. This is the humility of a child, which Jesus lauded. It is the humility of the scientist and the mystic. It has a lightness of step, not a heaviness of heart. That lightness is the surest litmus test I know for recognizing wisdom when you see it in the world or feel its stirrings in yourself.
~ Krista Tippett
We may live in an age when everything has to be "radical" and "revolutionary." For Luther the most radical thing one could do was to learn the basics of the faith with the simple trust of a little child.
~ Carl R. Trueman
I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.
~ Carroll O'Connor
a radiant and infectious, almost childlike gaiety which was always bubbling over into delighted and delightful laughter.
~ George Sayer