If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.

- Frederick Buechner

Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.

- Mason Cooley

To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.

- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

- James Anthony Froude

Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.

- John Lydon

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

- Isaiah Berlin

I'm childish and silly. Most people tease me because I'm a bit daft.

- Harriet Walter

Dying people often become childish.

- Georg Buchner

A lot of people have said that I've got a voice that speaks to children. I think I've got a natural naivety to me. I'm childish.

- Geri Halliwell

I don't read 'genre' fiction if that means novels with lots of killing and shooting. Even Cormac McCarthy's 'No Country for Old Men' seemed pretty childish in that regard.

- Geoff Dyer

For kids like me, being called childish can be a frequent occurrence. Every time we make irrational demands, exhibit irresponsible behavior, or display any other signs of being normal American citizens, we are called childish.

- Adora Svitak

I walked onstage in a play at prep school, and with childish naivete, told myself, 'Wow, I'm an actor!'

- Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.

When we're in that kind of childish space, we're more genuine and feel more comfortable with our friends.

- Evan Spiegel

At 35, I'm definitely starting to feel more like a grown-up than I ever have. There's nothing in my life that is childish or whimsical. Having fun is fantastic and I never want to lose a sense of that - and also, I think, you have to have that to put into your work or else it's going to feel stiff.

- Drew Barrymore

'Yes we can' always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls.

- Craig Shirley

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

- Christopher Meloni

I got quite cross when I heard about Emma Thompson adapting 'Sense and Sensibility.' It was absolutely childish of me, but I thought, 'I should be doing that. They didn't even ask me.' Some mistake, surely.

- Andrew Davies

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

- Alan Moore

For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency.

- Albert Ellis

The traits the word 'childish' addresses are seen so often in adults that we should abolish this age-discriminatory word when it comes to criticizing behavior associated with irresponsibility and irrational thinking.

- Adora Svitak