#childish

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#bravely #childish #desires #god #harbor

I wanted to create a heroine that was flawed. I wanted her to be a real person. She's selfish, she's childish, she's immature and because I'm doing a three-book arc I really played that up in the first book. I wanted the reader to be annoyed with her at times. ↗

— Amber Benson

#arc #because #book #childish #create

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#alive #childish #cowardice #discover #easy

I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things. ↗

— Rita Dove

#away #child #childish #did #i

Feeling bored is a childish attitude. You wouldn't feel so if you don't rely on somebody to change your feeling. ↗

— Toba Beta

#childish #dependent #feeling #attitude

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood? ↗

— Judith Viorst

#cost #does #foolish #how #irrational

My comedy is for children from three to 93. You do need a slightly childish sense of humour and if you haven't got that, it's very sad. ↗

— Norman Wisdom

#children #comedy #got #haven #humour

You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, "Am I having fun?" ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#childish #childlike #have fun #having fun #without

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#dare #deep #deep meaning #dream #err

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#came #childish #day #deep #did