Definition of Childlike

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Definition of Childlike
	Childlike Resembling a child, or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful. Related Definitions: Becoming, Child, Children, Dutiful, Meek, Or, Resembling, Submissive, That, To, Which

Childlike Quotations

Great is the man who has not lost his childlike heart.
Mencius

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
John Updike

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
Honore de Balzac

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
Maya Lin

Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

You can be childlike without being childish.
Christopher Meloni

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

I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
Beck

I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.
Carroll O'Connor

The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness.
Kenneth Branagh

Childlike Translations

childlike in French is enfantin
childlike in German is kindlich
childlike in Spanish is infantil
childlike in Swedish is som ett barn

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