#childish

The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also related to childlessness). ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#childlessness #fable #fantasy-literature #literary-criticism #literature

Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big. ↗

— Kate Greenaway

#beautiful #behind #beyond #big #childish

When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and write. ↗

— Wolfgang Hildesheimer

#before #cast #chest #childish #five

Your mama coming back. Just cause you cant sees a person aint mean nothing. They still there. You worry you never gonna find your mama but she gonna come to you. Close your eyes. I bets you see her good. ↗

— Nancy Rawles

#inspirational #life-lessons #love #slavery #inspirational

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

— Craig Shirley

#camp #chant #childish #fire #like

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

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

#childish #definitely #else #ever #fantastic

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

A childish feeling, I admit, but, when we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to nature, we involuntarily become children: each attribute acquired by experience falls away from the soul, which becomes anew such as it was once and will surely be again. ↗

— Mikhail Lermontov

#childish #feeling #nature #soul #experience

A childish mind griped to unexpected changes. ↗

— Toba Beta

#gripe #unexpected-changes #change