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Quotes About Childlike

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
~ Marie Curie
Pero es que no ve lo que estoy sufriendo?... Que estupidez, ¿verdad? ¡Sufro como un niño!
~ Émile Zola
For some reason, comedians are still children. The social skills somehow never reach us, so we say exactly what we think without weighing the results.
~ Bob Newhart
If you go to my house, it's not like I'm 5, but I definitely have a lot of toys and weird, tiny miniatures.
~ Janet Varney
When you act, you're being asked to pretend in a very rigid, controlled environment. It's very un-childlike. So a lot of times, when you put kids in that situation, you hope they have a better support system outside of what they're doing to bring them back to reality at the end of the day and to keep them well-rounded.
~ Patton Oswalt
I want to make paintings that look as if they were made by a child.
~ Jean-Michel Basquiat
I don't drink tea or coffee. I'm like a child: I like fruit juices and sodas and creamy hot chocolate.
~ Talulah Riley
I liken myself to a little girl having a tea party at the house all of the time. I actually dress up more in my home than I do walking down the street just because it is so much fun to play dress up.
~ Blake Lively
Masters manage to blend the two—discipline and a childlike spirit—together into what we shall call the Dimensional Mind. Such a mind is not constricted by limited experience or habits. It can branch out into all directions and make deep contact with reality. It can explore more dimensions of the world.
~ Robert Greene
Differ though we might with Christianity's view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to discredit the provocative underlying thesis, which seems no less relevant in the secular realm than in the religious one--that we have within us a precious, childlike, vulnerable core which we should nourish and nurture on its turbulent journey through life.
~ Alain de Botton
Faith walks simply, childlike, between the darkness of human life and the hope of what is to come.
~ Catherine Doherty
I just feel like all the things that I do in my life just make me feel like a grown-up kid. That's pretty much what I am.
~ Matt Skiba
Skipping is the walk of joy.
~ Jessi Lane Adams
The pursuit of happiness: skipping is your best chance of catching it.
~ Jessi Lane Adams
I describe myself as a big kid with an old soul, I'm very playful whimsical, but I definitely have that old soul as well.
~ Jidenna
Brexit is a ceaseless grind of conversations about customs unions and backstops. Anything that can add an air of whimsical, childlike wonder to proceedings can only be a good thing.
~ Nish Kumar
Abortion opponents know full well that the public would not abide putting women in prison en masse. Politically, it's more palatable to portray them as irrational, ignorant, and childlike, perhaps even temporarily insane.
~ Katha Pollitt
My real passion is to make movies, to direct. It's good for my ego to be an actress. It's like someone is saying, 'Yes, you're beautiful! Yes, you're doing fine!' But I feel like a child when I'm an actress.
~ Maiwenn
Well, that's why ballet is one of the hardest disciplines - you kind of stay childlike, because you never really experience childhood, so you try to stay in that.
~ Sergei Polunin
The time that Ted and I spend talking about our careers is almost infinitesimally small. We mostly talk about our kids and our grandkids. I think we talk about our careers if something funny happened at work. We're very childlike in many ways.
~ Mary Steenburgen
As a female actress - I've been doing this since I was a teenager - I often got approached with the ingenue roles: naive and wide-eyed and childlike.
~ Jessica Henwick
I am like a kid. I tell my family and friends I'm like a kid.
~ Shah Rukh Khan
You can understand and relate to most people better if you look at them - no matter how impressive they may be - as if they are children. For most of us never really grow up or mature all that much - we simply grow taller. Oh, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.
~ Robin S. Sharma
You can understand and relate to most people better if you look at them - no matter how old or impressive they may be - as if they are children. For most of us never really grow up or mature all that much - we simply grow taller. O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.
~ Leo Rosten