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Quotes About Childlike

Pray a little each day in a childlike way for the Spirit of prayer. If you feel that you know, as yet, very little concerning the deep things of prayer and what prayer really is, then pray for the Spirit of prayer. There is nothing He would rather do than unveil to you the grace of prayer.
~ O. Hallesby
He watched, somewhat fascinated as she swished a slice of bacon through the pool of syrup. His steely-minded cop had the appetite of a five-year-old.
~ J.D. Robb
Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.
~ Philip Johnson
Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.
~ Saint Augustine
Zen is to have the heart and soul of a little child.
~ Takuan S?h?
The main thing about SpongeBob is that he celebrates innocence. His outlook on life is very optimistic and earnest, and I think kids relate to that. He has a creative spark in the same way children are very creative from an open and naive perspective.
~ Stephen Hillenburg
A lot of people have said that I've got a voice that speaks to children. I think I've got a natural naivety to me. I'm childish.
~ Geri Halliwell
Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative.
~ Diane Ackerman
O?aran sam ?injenicom da ona uvijek pokazuje svoje osje?aje s djetinjom lako?om. Kad je tužna, pla?e; kad je vesela, smije se, i najviše voli kad je se iznenadi nekom lijepom gestom.
~ Nicholas Sparks
I'm a fun-loving guy. I enjoy my life. I have a big kid inside me.
~ Kim Dotcom
I'm incredibly naive.
~ Christina Ricci
Most people aren't good or bad. They're naive.
~ Jake LaMotta
Why are you only coming home just after three? Do you want a drink? I'm wide awake now.' He could be so like a small child, she thought. Out of nowhere, all eagerness and curiosity.
~ Val McDermid
He believed in magic, like a child, and in ghosts, like a peasant.
~ Laini Taylor
I might try that one thing, you know, that thing people do when their eyes get all wet and stupid—what's it called? Crying? Or NOT. I might PUNCH you instead and trust that you won't punch me back because of my endearing smallness. It would be like punching a child.
~ Laini Taylor
He believed in magic, like a child, and in ghosts, like a peasant. His nose was broken by a falling volume of fairy tales his first day on the job, and that, they said, told you everything you needed to know about strange Lazlo Strange: head in the clouds, world of his own, fairy tales and fancy.
~ Laini Taylor
You're like a kid when her parents come home from a party, checking their pockets for cake." "Ooh, cake. I'll take cake. But not pocket cake, because yuck.
~ Laini Taylor
He believed in magic, like a child, and in ghosts, like a peasant. His nose was broken by a falling volume of fairy tales his first day on the job, and that, they said, told you everything you needed to know about strange Lazlo Strange: head in the clouds,
~ Laini Taylor
I let you come to my salon because you amuse me, Matthew Fairchild. Because you are a child - a silly and beautiful child, who touches fire because it is lovely, and forgets that it will burn him.
~ Cassandra Clare
When Helen was happy, she was both childlike and maternal.
~ Cathy Park Hong
He burned and crackled and he ran from me with a sudden childlike agility, as if all the stamina of his youth had returned.
~ Gil Brewer
I came across my diary again today, which for some time I have neglected, and I'm astonished how consciously, step by step, I walked into it all. How clearly I have always seen my condition and acted like a child nevertheless, and how clearly I still see now, and still with no sign of a cure.
~ Goethe Johann Wolfgang von
Love is the Supreme Reality in the universe, and as such it contains all Truth. Infinite Tenderness enfolds and cherishes the universe; therefore is the wise man gentle and childlike and tender-hearted.
~ James Allen