Quotes About Innocence

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

Age does not make us childish, as they say.It only finds us true children still.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

Age doesn't make us childish, as they say, It finds that we're still children.

I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.

Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents.

If the world were really right, humans would live life backward and do the first part last. They'd be all knowing in the beginning and innocent in the end.

Life was simple when you were a Shield Bug.

All the songs that were written for that album are just all our first sophomore songs. So they're all from real life. Very sweet and very innocent.

He is as wise as a serpent and as innocent as a dove.

I think that life has a secret, and children they hold that secret. Maybe it's not given to everybody to discover this thing.

Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.

The beginning of my life was simple and much like every other little life. I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does.

I've never been arrested in my life. Never had cuffs put on me, never been charged with a crime, never spent one day in jail.

I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.

The poet is one who is able to keep the fresh vision of the child alive.

Seeing to it that a youngster grows up believing not just in the here and now but also in the grand maybes of life guarantees that some small yet crucial part of him remains forever a child.

Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

I can't think of a more philosophical time in a person's life than when they are children. It's the one time when ideas are really beautiful and amazing and all-encompassing. They are life.

The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

You look boldly ahead; isn't it only that you don't see or divine anything terrible in the future; because life is still hidden from your young eyes.

I think of a child's mind as a blank book. During the first years of his life, much will be written on the pages. The quality of that writing will affect his life profoundly.

She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.