Quotes on Childishness

By turning our culture over to the spectacle of child stars and their growing pains, we simply wind up taking their childishness seriously and ensuring that they don't grow up at all. And neither do we.

When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly.

It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.

Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness.

What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?

For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.

All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences. That may sound simple to the point of childishness; I can't judge if it's simple, but I know it's true.