Childlike Quotes

Mozart began his works in childhood and a childlike quality lurked in his compositions until it dawned on him that the Requiem he was writing for s a stranger was his own.

There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it.

To live is to play at the meaning of life...The upshot of this . . . is that it teaches us once and for all that childlike foolishness is the calling of mature men.

I became disconnected from the childlike play that art could be. I spent so much time fearing I wasn't good enough that I lost the sense that my artistic expression was worthy.

Things involved with a computer fill me with a childlike terror. Now, if it were a nice ogre or some such I'd be more in my element.

I quite like childlike songs, which sometimes cross over.

[In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious . . .

I don't like the idea of [having] a thick skin. I think we [should] be more childlike.

Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman.

We need a childlike trust that God is good... ultimately we are OK. That is a simple, beautiful pure thing that can be complicated ferociously by all sorts of intellectual categories.

Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing.

I've hardly had an avant-garde career ... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time.

The world was beautiful when looked at in this way-without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.

A childlike mind in its simplicity practises that science of good to which the wise may be blind.

There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post.

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.

My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ.

I mean, I'm just speaking of my own experiences and my own desires, and it's a kind of a childlike wonder that could really possibly speculate on other dimensions.

Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic.

I think sometimes older people wind up being a little childlike. They've done their time, now they get to do what they want.

A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.

I have a lot of things [in me] that are childlike and innocent and sweet.

To tap into that natural creative spirit, recapture your childlike enthusiasm for everything around you. Work with the reckless delight of a child.

Writers who drew, they all seemed to draw the same way. They managed to keep that childlike creativity in their line.

Betrayals during war are childlike compared with our betrayals during peace.

I think there's a part, just a part of comedians, that is still childlike.

I want to bring that childlike approach every night - just go out there and have fun. I want to play like a kid, for fun but with intensity. Play to win.

Even the most stoic of men will be childlike at least once in a day.

I love the energy of children. It makes me feel young. I'm just drawn to them. They're like magic to me. And they're drawn to me, the childlike part of me that never did grow up.

most of us carry into marriage not only our childlike illusions, but we bring to it as well the demand that it has to be wonderful, because it's supposed to be.

Butler,” he called, his voice thin and childlike in the wind. “Yes, Artemis, what?” “If something goes wrong, wait for me. No matter how it looks, I will return. I will bring them all back.

Psychic beings are childlike, delicate and easily destroyed.

He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance - remains childlike.

I have things that are strident and confrontational, and I have a lot of things that are childlike and innocent and sort of sweet. So, somewhere in between lies the middle of me.

I think the Hulk has always appealed very strongly to much younger readers than Spider-Man, because Spider-Man is an adolescent character, and the Hulk is a very childlike character.

The world we knew as children is still buried within our minds. Our childlike self is the deepest level of our being. It is who we really are, and what is real doesn't go away.

It's like a kind of Barbie American dream. I have that childlike quality so a lot of little girls especially [like me]. I've always been a kid at heart. I think I always will be.

There is nothing more pure and beautiful than a person who always speaks truthfully with a childlike heart.

It's fun telling you tall Texas tales. You always look like a little girl who's hearing Cinderella for the first time.

Childlike does not mean shallow.

If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

The average adult hates being treated like a child, unless it suits them.

See the world through the eyes of your inner child.The eyes that sparkle in awe and amazement as they see love, magic and mystery in the most ordinary things.

So runs my dream, but what am I?An infant crying in the nightAn infant crying for the lightAnd with no language but a cry.

I do not write for children, but for the childlike, whether of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.