{"quotes":[{"text":"I hang around kids so people will assume when I act like one it's because I'm babysitting.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["adolescent-behavior","babysitting","childish","childish-behavior","children","humor","immature","immaturity","kids","richelle","richelle-e-goodrich","richelle-goodrich"],"id":17399,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"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.","author":"Mikhail Lermontov","tags":["child","childish","feeling","nature","soul"],"id":50554,"author_id":"Mikhail+Lermontov"},{"text":"From her thighs, she gives you lifeAnd how you treat she who gives you lifeShows how much you value the life given to you by the Creator.And from seed to dustThere is ONE soul above all others --That you must always show patience, respect, and trustAnd this woman is your mother.And when your soul departs your bodyAnd your deeds are weighed against the featherThere is only one soul who can save yoursAnd this woman is your mother.And when the heart of the universeAsks her hair and mind,Whether you were gentle and kind to herHer heart will be forced to remain silentAnd her hair will speak freely as a separate entity,Very much like the seaweed in the sea --It will reveal all that it has heard and seen.This woman whose heart has seen yours,First before anybody else in the world,And whose womb had opened the doorFor your eyes to experience light and more --Is your very own MOTHER.So, no matter whether your mother has been cruel,Manipulative, abusive, mentally sick, or simply childishHow you treat her is the ultimate test.If she misguides you, forgive her and show her the right wayWith simple wisdom, gentleness, and kindness.And always remember,That the queen in the Creator's kingdom,Who sits on the throne of all existence,Is exactly the same as in yours.And her name is,THE DIVINE MOTHER.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["abusive","beauty","birth","cherish","childish","children","creation","divine","divine-mother","dust","eulogy","eulogy-mother","existence","feather","female","feminism","fertility","gentle","goddess","grandmother","hair","heart","hearts","kindness","kingdom","life","loss-of-mother","matriarch","mind","mom","mommy","mother","mother-earth","mother-poem","mother-poetry","motherhood","mothering","mothers","mothers-and-daughters","mothers-love","mothers-poem","name","parents","poem","poetry","pregnancy","queen","royalty","seaweed","seed","silent","sisters","soul","suzy-kassem","thighs","treasure","treatment","universe","value","woman","woman-power","woman-rights","womanhood","women"],"id":81503,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"It is childish to eat primarily or only to please your tongue.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["child","childish","children","cook","cooking","dead","death","dish","dishes","drink","eat","feed","food","immature","immaturity","mature","maturity","meal","meals","nourish","nourishment","nutrition","please","recipes","starvation","starve","survival","survive","sustenance","tongue","vitamins"],"id":115405,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.","author":"Isaac Asimov","tags":["belief","bible","bitter","childish","childish-beliefs","guide","guides","home","ignorance","ignore","imagine","invade","leader","leaders","library","resentment","school","science","shame","the-bible","thought","uneducated","unimaginative","unthinking","writing"],"id":116842,"author_id":"Isaac+Asimov"},{"text":"The phaenomena afforded by trades, are a part of the history of nature, and therefore may both challenge the naturalist's curiosity and add to his knowledge, Nor will it suffice to justify learned men in the neglect and contempt of this part of natural history, that the men, from whom it must be learned, are illiterate mechanicks... Is indeed childish, and too unworthy of a philosopher, to be worthy of an honest answer.","author":"Robert Boyle","tags":["childish","illiterate","knowledge","mechanics","naturalist","philosophers","science"],"id":130620,"author_id":"Robert+Boyle"},{"text":"Few endeavors, if any at all, I find to be inherently mature or inherently immature. Maturity is neither defined by one's particular preferences nor by one's particular activities; rather, it is defined by the strength of one's character.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["activity","adult","character","child","childish","childlike","development","endeavor","fun","immaturity","leisure","maturity","playing","psychology","responsibility","toys","traits","venture","video-games"],"id":137076,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"When I saw snooty guy, I missed my childhood.","author":"Toba Beta","tags":["arrogance","childish","snooty"],"id":138299,"author_id":"Toba+Beta"},{"text":"Your belief is mostly your prison! To discover the world outside your prison, you must first realize the walls surrounding you! Otherwise you shall continue being stuck in the prison of childish tales and fallacious illusions!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["belief","belief","belief","childish","fallacious","murat-ildan","murat-ildan","prison","religion","religion","religion","tales","tales-for-children","turkish-writers"],"id":143591,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adult","adults","age","age-is-nothing-but-a-number","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","child","childhood","childish","childlike","conform","conformity","craziness","crazy","critical","critical-thinking","develop","development","earn","funny","grow","growth","hard-work","herd","herd-mentality","humor","humour","illogical","immature","immaturity","independent-thinker","independent-thinkers","independent-thinking","individual","individuality","insane","insanity","joke","jokes","logic","mad","madness","majority","mature","maturity","minority","monkey-banana","mr-follow-follow","nonconformity","original","original-thinker","original-thinkers","original-thought","originality","philosopher","philosophers","philosophy","reach-adulthood","reason","sane","sanity","satire","sheep","sheeple","silver-plater","society","standard","think","think-for-yourself","thinker","thinkers","thinking-for-yourself","toil","unreasonable"],"id":155297,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":35,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}