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Quotes About Childish

Yet when I waved at those two girls I noticed I couldn't rid myself of the idea that they were timeless symbols of girlhood, or of childish friendship.
~ Zadie Smith
It's irrational and childish for me to be upset, and I don't care.
~ Jim Butcher
Apparently trying to have fun is being is immature...who knew?
~ Unknown
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
If you think me weak, bring forth your champion and let me do battle with him. And kill in that childish way of the Franks? Full of pomp and bravado? We are masters of death here. We do not play at it. - Ware & Sinan
~ Iris Johansen
immature, Arlo!" said Andrea. "I bet their daughter's
~ Dan Gutman
Butt cheeks and belly button lint, Fart burgers on toast. I like to eat toenail clippings And earwax the most. Dumbheads and idiots And morons I hate. Armpits and dog doo And snot on my plate.   There
~ Dan Gutman
Where did you grow up?" He wiggled his eyebrows at her. "Who says I've grown up?
~ Unknown
The idea that all Israelis are villains is a childish idea. Israel is the most deeply divided, argumentative society. You'll never find two Israelis that agree with one another - it's hard to find even one who agrees with himself or herself.
~ Amos Oz
it struck me as extraordinary that the leaders of each of these countries bore such an intimate familial relationship to each other. It was as if the entire matter was nothing more than a childish game: Willy, Georgie, and Nicky running around a garden, setting out their forts and toy soldiers, enjoying an afternoon of great sport until one of them went too far and they had to be separated by a responsible adult.
~ John Boyne
Imagining yourself dead is the cheapest, sleaziest, most satisfying form of childish self-pity. How sad and remorseful and guilty all those people are, standing by your great bronze coffin.
~ Don DeLillo
Ask yourself what it is you want more, to ease your ancient fear or to revenge your childish dopey injured male pride." I
~ Don DeLillo
was surprised at his reaction. "So it was a brawl," he said, with childish delight.
~ Donna Tartt
Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct. Kindness, gentleness, long-suffering, forbearance, patience, and sympathy are the cords by which a child may be led most easily. Willingness to enter into childish troubles and a readiness to take part in childish joys are the clues you must follow if you want to find the way to his heart.
~ J.C. Ryle
Many theories of the ancient world seem terribly childish today, a hodge-podge of fables and false comparisons.But our theories will seem childish five-hundred years from now.Every theory is based on some analogy, and sooner or later the theory fails because the analogy turns out to be false. A theory in its day helps to solve the problems of the day.
~ Jacob Bronowski
Politeness is the enemy of both Art and Criticism. It tries to color true perception, dilute strong emotion, and replace genuine compassion. To pursue bad manners is childish, to pursue good ones is emasculation.
~ James Alan Gardner
I was happy thinking only about letters and suddenly they began to compose into something, so dangerous when they get together. But at bottom they are careless. Childish. A, B, H, M, O, . . . so rare X. The Z, an amnesiac, ing in decline, his twin brother S with all the cunning of a usurper.
~ Unknown
Epidemics of childish ailments spread like a powder trail through the uprooted recruits, and many a village lad who had swaggered into the ranks with heroic ideas of fighting the Germans spent his first weeks as a soldier fighting a fever, scratching his spots or nursing a painful case of mumps.
~ Unknown
Jealousy is one of the most childish and crude feelings that a person can feel. It's an emotion resulting from the fear that the affection from our partner may, instead, be bestowed upon someone other than one's own self.
~ Unknown
yet may it not be that these questions are idle, and we who are putting them to you mere childish dreamers, hedged round with error and doubt?
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
I mean, it's fine when you're a kid and someone runs into the playground and goes, 'I've got this great game of pretend ' and you play... As an actor, getting to play, getting to use your imagination and be childish - it is weird but it's wonderful.
~ Max Irons
Laws are man-made! They can be faulty, they can be childish, they can be ridiculous, they can be silly and they can even be utterly devilish! Anything man made is open to all the possibilities except perfection!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
came out to this site and do you know what I heard?" There was a brief silence and then a loud, squeaky fart. Sabrina turned and saw Puck fall over with laughter. For once, one of his childish pranks was well timed.
~ Michael Buckley
It was the first time I had ever seen someone die, and it wasn't what I expected...I stood there waiting for something momentous to happen, for someone to say something profound, but there was nothing...I still had the childish notion that since my life was so important, all lives were so important. Since my death would be so cataclysmic, all deaths would be so cataclysmic.
~ Unknown