Quotes About Innocence

A verdade é que minha mãe era cândida como a primeira aurora, anterior ao primeiro pecado.

When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for children. Children are excited by new ideas; they have not yet closed the doors and windows of their imaginations. Provided the story is good... nothing is too difficult for children.

The artist, if he is not to forget how to listen, must retain the visionwhich includes angels and dragons and unicorns, and all the lovely creatures which our world would put in a bos marked, 'Children Only.

If a book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

If the book will be too difficult for grownups, then you write it for children.

Children are less easily frightened than we are.... they all understand princesses, of course. Haven't they all been badly bruised by peas?

The child is aware of unlimited potential, and this munificence is one of the joys of creativity. Those of use who struggle in our own ways, small or great, trickles or rivers, to create, are constantly having to unlearn what the world would teach us...

In real play, which is real concentration, the child is not only outside time, he is outside himself. He has thrown himself completely into whatever it is that he is doing. A child playing a game, building a sand castle, painting a picture, is completely in what he is doing. His self-consciousness is gone; his consciousness is wholly focused outside himself.

Oh, girl, not woman, more than child, Which of us two is the more wild? So

Megan and Marty's nine-month-old daughter with a mop of red curls.

Why is a two-year-old so terrible? Because she is systematically testing the fascinating and, to her, utterly novel notion that something that gives her pleasure might not actually give someone else pleasure—and the truth is that as adults we never lose that fascination.

In worldly terms, she was totally innocent; Eve before the fall, with no knowledge of good and evil. She made one realize how necessary the Fall was; without it, there would have been no human drama, and so no literature, no art, no suffering, no religion, no laughter, no joy, no sin and no redemption. Only camera work (towards which Mrs. Dobbs's painting was reaching) and sociology (which her sister, Beatrice Webb, may be said to have invented).

My view is that, if you think that money brings problems, you have a problem with money. The money itself is innocent.

The exact symptom of sad people is their innocence and honesty but these kind of people always at the top of success...

When you are innocently covered by sorrow, It shall be turned into joy.

All children... feel a demonic sympathy with those things that cause disorder in the grown-up world.

As a kid my heart would break for the villains.

When I approach a child, he inspires in me two sentiments; tenderness for what he is, and respect for what he may become.

I see the mind of the five-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness.

Oneness with Nature is the glory of childhood; oneness with childhood is the glory of the Teacher.

Don't set your wit against a child.

My family and I are heartbroken after hearing the news that more than 100 innocent children and teachers have lost their lives...

That disapproving look was back in her eyes. Her teacher face. The one that could make you squirm from ten paces, even if you were innocent. And I hadn't been innocent for years.

They (children) are my teachers. I watch them and I learn. It is important for us to try and be like them and imitate them. They are golden.