Quotes About Innocence

I was born in Tyrone, 1956, for something I didn't do. I was innocent. But they gave me life. I still remember the midwife who extradited me.

Kids lead a very private life.

I'm not a bad person. I haven't killed anyone. I (rarely) lie. I don't kick little puppies. So why do people look at me as if the world would be a better place without me?

The best things in life don't come in adult sizes.

Give to these children, new from the world, Rest far from men. Is anything better, anything better? Tell us it then.

Youth is life as yet unblemished by much tragedy, but hardly by TV.

It is sweet to die young! It is sweet to render to God a life still full of illusions!

Babies are born whole and then they go through experiences in life that chip away at some of that, and it becomes learned behavior.

I can't imagine it now, but I must've been innocent at some time in my life. A baby don't just get itself born bad, do it?

By 2018, the laws had changed in many (though not all) states, and sixty-six US-based innocence projects had launched, with another ten in other countries joining the "Innocence Network" as well.

They do horrible, unchildish things because they they have had very horrible, unchildish lives.

A trouble - nothing as beautiful as a sorrow - rose to the surface of his mind, displayed its ungainliness and sank. Its precise nature he did not ask himself, for his hour was not yet, but the hint was appalling, and, hero though he was, he longed to be a little boy again, and to stroll half awake for ever by the colourless sea.

I grew up on the golden age of children's TV.

What happened, what we think happened, in distant memory, is built around a small collection of dominating images. In one of my own from the age of seven, I stand in the shallows off Paradise Beach, staring down at a huge jellyfish in water so still and clear that its every detail is revealed as though it were trapped in glass. The creature is astonishing. It existed outside my previous imagination.

The Gospel of Matthew declares, "Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven." An early Chinese Daoist text, the Daodejing or Laozi, compares the perfected sage to an infant or small child, perfectly open and receptive to the world.

Do you know why children feel free? It's because they don't take unto themselves what is not theirs. For them, everything belongs to God. And they would have it no other way. They 'share' in this gift that is the world and are free. You too can share in this gift. All you have to do is let go.

The girl she said, I didn't tell you this because it was a small thing, but little girls, they leave their hearts at home when they walk outside. Hearts are so precious. They don't want to lose them.

My pure and lovely world was my mother's lap.

When babies look beyond you and giggle, maybe they're seeing angels.

Who doesn't envy a child's endless sense of things. Not that they have it but it's what they feel. It's what we're born to know. A sensation of being unhampered by anything except adults.

I felt my attention wandering off. It generally does at the phrase "mere child.

When you're eleven you think every idea is born with you, that no one ever tried it the right way before. Your example, your own honesty, will make you a hero to everyone who knows you - and better, it will make people come to their senses and stop telling vicious lies about each other.

Into the mud puddle!

In the woods the bluebells seem Like a blue and magic dream, Blue water, light and air Flow among them there. But the eager girl who pulls Bluebells up in basketfuls When she gets them home will find The magic left behind.