Quotes About Innocence

It's true: I can't think of even a single way in which society suffers because of a 15-year-old trick-or-treater.

When I was a child, I used to eat sugar Frosted Flakes with chocolate milk, but I digest, I mean digress.

I have had nothing to do in any way, shape or form with the mailing of these anthrax letters, and it is extremely wrong for anyone to contend or suggest that I have.

It never feels good when people suggest that you did something wrong and you know you didn't.

We steer completely clear of anything suggestive.

I was about six years old when I did 'Orchids and Ermine.' They dressed me in a suit, put a mustache under my nose, a cigar in my mouth, a cane in my hand, and a hat on my head.

I love those kids on 'The Suite Life of Zack and Cody.' I remember when they were little they looked like they were having so much fun just being kids. And that's how I was growing up and how I try to be.

So, when I was eight or nine my mom's friend gave her a big purple bag full of cassettes and I found Seals and Crofts' 'Summer Breeze'... When I found it I stopped going through the bag because I was like, well, I'm not going to find anything better than this. I just thought it was the most beautiful thing I'd ever heard.

I was 13 and at summer camp when I had my first kiss.

The summers of our childhood were the best times of our lives.

I felt like an extraordinary hero. I was only five or six and I had the whole of life in my hands. Even if I had been driving the carriage of the sun I could not have felt any better.

They used to call me Firefly when I was a little girl, and I always tried to figure out why I was being called a firefly. I was really black, black, black from the sun. After being in Jamaica for 13 years, my eyes were really beady and white, and my skin was really black. I must have really looked like a fly. My eyes looked like lights, like stars.

I was around when there was only one channel and when that second channel arrived, it came with the wonderful world of Disney on a Sunday night. We would drop our bicycles and run home to see it, it was just pure escapism.

I remember my first role as a sunflower at nine.

My earliest memory is aged three, seeing sunlight on water and feeling it was really magical.

You know when you're a child and your imagination is limitless and you really believe in magic? I thought I had super powers.

When I was really young, I shot a lot with my Super 8.

I think I had 'Super Mario' and 'Tetris' around, and that's it.

My mom had gotten a Super 8 camera to make home movies with, and my brother and me got our hands on it and ran with it.

Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way--and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children.

Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness.

O Stunden in der Kindheit, da hinter den Figuren mehr als nur Vergangnes war und vor uns nicht die Zukunft.

Who shows a child, just as they are? Who sets it in its constellation, and gives the measure of distance into its hand? Who makes a child's death out of grey bread, that hardens, - or leaves it inside its round mouth like the core of a shining apple? Killers are easy to grasp. But this: death, the whole of death, before life, to hold it so softly, and not live in anger, cannot be expressed.

Rainer Maria Rilke