Quotes About Innocence

The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-wheeling, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly funny. If you will approach it with childlike innocence -- putting your standard responses aside, for they do not apply -- if you will approach it on its own terms, I think you will be in for a liberating surprise. I think you may no longer be content with plays that you can't remember halfway down the block.

Close not thy hand upon the innocent joy That trusts itself within thy reach. It may Or may not linger. Thou canst but destroy The wingèd wanderer. Let it go or stay. Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem. Think! Midas starved by turning all to gold.

Childhood: it was like trying to chart an entire continent by the brief flare of a firework. Except that you had no idea that this was your only chance to explore for free, and instead you spent the five seconds of precious light gawping at the sky, stuffing treacle into your mouth. And then it went dark again.

Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.

And I too in Arcadia.

I used to stare up at the sky trying to see where the snowflakes were born. I could do it for hours. Well, minutes. But it was always the waiting that was the most fun.

All of god's grace in one precious little face.

I like little pussy, her coat is so warm;And if I don't hurt her she'll do me no harm.

We all dream of being a child again, even the worst of us. Perhaps the worst most of all.

Grant that the old Adam in this Child may be so buried, that the new man may be raised up in him.

A rose can say "I love you", orchids can enthrall, but a weed bouquet in a chubby fist, yes, that says it all.

Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness?

Coming through the rye.

Grandmothers are just antique little girls.

Hail to you gods…On that day of the great reckoning.Behold me, I have come to you,Without sin, without guilt, without evil,Without a witness against me,Without one whom I have wronged….Rescue me, protect me,Do not accuse me before the great god!I am one pure of mouth, pure of hands.

Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

...a little child, born yesterday, A thing on mother's milk and kisses fed...

For the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth.

Mommies are just big little girls.

Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.

Childhood is the most beautiful of all life's seasons.

Unspotted from the world.

A little girl is sugar and spice and everything nice — especially when she's taking a nap.

Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.