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Quotes About Innocence

Become more and more innocent, less knowledgeable and more childlike. Take life as fun - because that's precisely what it is!
~ Rajneesh
The Koran says the killing of an innocent, the taking of an innocent life, is tantamount to killing all of mankind.
~ Queen Noor of Jordan
We begin life with loss. We are cast from the womb without an apartment, a charge plate, a job or a car. We are sucking, sobbing, clinging, helpless babies.
~ Judith Viorst
I learned to fall down early in life - I was like six - because I realized it was a way to make girls laugh.
~ Matthew Perry
It has that thing - the imagination, and the feeling of happy excitement- I knew when I was a kid.
~ Walt Disney
Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.
~ John Bradshaw
To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation - is there a worst trade one makes in life?
~ Robert Breault
There is a vast deal of make-believe in the carefully nurtured sentiment for country life, and the barefoot boy, and the mountain girl.
~ Agnes Repplier
What makes life complicated is the things that are on me and it is very hard to keep things simple. I see it as I am complicated and there is innocence to this.
~ Klaus Nomi
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The white flower of a blameless life.
~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
You wanna know the secret of life? The saliva of young girls.
~ Tony Curtis
I never smoked a cigar in my life until I was nine
~ W. C. Fields
The lovers of life, they are children at heart always in their wonder and delight, but they do not grab.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
Having children obviously changes your priorities, but when you start to see life through these innocent eyes and seeing everything for the first time, you appreciate the small things.
~ Nick Cannon
Childhood lasts all through life.
~ Gaston Bachelard
I've never done anybody any harm in my entire life. No need to chase girls, I've thousands of them on Top Of The Pops, thousands on Radio One.
~ Jimmy Savile
There are enough tears in any child's life; we certainly don't need to add to them in the name of entertainment.
~ Bruce Forsyth
When you're a little kid, your heart is open and tender and a harsh word can go straight in and become part of your life.
~ Garrison Keillor
Life as a shorty shouldn't be so rough.
~ Inspectah Deck
Childhood comes at a time in your life when you are too young to understand what you are going through. And you're too young to understand that you are too young to understand.
~ Jane Wagner
In life's rich beauty pageant we put children on a stage, said flash your soft white belly child, but just don't act your age.
~ Rodney Crowell
Life begins as a quest of the child for the man, and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.
~ Sam Ewing
Probably I am very naive, but I also think I prefer to remain so, at least for the time being and perhaps for the rest of my life.
~ Edsger Dijkstra