Quotes About Innocence

Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.

[...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever discovered in his laboratory.

As for me I will follow the path of the pink bunnies.

I have a lot of stories about being a kid because it was the last time I was interesting.

I don't think there's been a time in American history with more innocent people in prison.

Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time, with eyes of a child, fresh with wonder.

The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children.

All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.

Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.

See the world as if for the first time; see it through the eyes of a child, and you will suddenly find that you are free.

The photographer must possess and preserve the receptive faculties of a child who looks at the world for the first time.

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

My very first kiss happened when I was 6, underneath some desks during 'nap time', but my first real kiss happened when I was 15 in the parking lot at a Mexican food restaurant.

Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.

Look at everything as though you are seeing it for the first time.

I'm seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There's no black and white to it. But sometimes I'm seeing it like I'm 4.

There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronizing wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them.

When you're born, you're pure. Unspoiled and trusting. Some say, it's the only time we're perfect. You're also born covered in blood and placenta. No one gets nostalgic about that.

It is the childlike part of us that produces works of the imagination. When we were children time passed so slow with us that we seemed to have time for everything.

The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled.

Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before.

Guilt has no right to profit by the generosity of the guiltless.