Quotes About Innocence

And then, from the other room, we could hear Fudge singing himself to sleep. "M-a-i-n-e spells Maine. F-u-d-g-e spells Fudgie. P-e-t-e-r spells Pee-tah. B-e-e-r spells whiskey.

Before the end of the week, Fudge asked the big question. "How did the baby get inside you, Mommy?" So

Caitlin was fascinated by Vix's pubic hairs. "Lay down," she said, "and I'll count them for you.

Ralph arrived first. He's really fat. And he isn't even four years old. He doesn't say much either. He grunts and grabs a lot, though. Usually his mouth is stuffed full of something.

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.

Children picking up our bones Will never know that these were once As quick as foxes on the hill;

People should like poetry the way a child likes snow, and they would if poets wrote it.

Too many people grow up. That`s the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don`t remember what it`s like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well I won`t do that

There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.

Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.

he was trying to convince himself that he wasn't guilty.

In truly effective thinking the prime necessity is to liquidate judgments, regain an innocent eye, disentangle feelings, be curious and open-hearted.

Der Natur sind die Tragödien, die sich in ihr abspielen, egal. Noch kein Galgenbaum hat sich darüber aufgeregt, daß Unschuldige an ihm aufgeknüpft wurden. Kein Grashalm eines Schlachtfeldes trauert den Gefallenen nach.

Si el descentramiento nos permite viajar hacia otra persona y conocerla, la humildad nos permite aprender de ella. La humildad libera la mente de la agotadora y casi siempre innecesaria competencia de querer ser más, de pavonearse, de recordarle al mundo lo que somos. La modestia, decía Jankélévitch, "nos retiene en el camino recto de la inocencia". Yo diría que, además, nos acerca al asombro. No puede haber pensamiento flexible sin humildad.

It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.

Yet chances are, for the rest of her life, that four-year-old girl will never again ask questions as instinctively, as imaginatively, or as freely as she does at that shining moment. Unless she is exceptional, that age is her questioning peak.

Presently a choir of small voices chanted forth an old Christmas carol, the burden of which was— Rejoice, our Saviour he was born On Christmas Day in the morning. I rose softly, slipt on my clothes, opened the door suddenly, and beheld one of the most beautiful little fairy groups that a painter could imagine. It consisted of a boy and two girls, the eldest not more than six, and lovely as seraphs. They were going the rounds of the house and singing at every chamber door

The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value.

She grinned, looking for all the world like a sticky-mouthed little girl who had just convinced her gullible mother that she really did drop the first piece of candy into the storm drain and would need another.

When I was little, I used to run out into the rain and let the water run all over me. Then one day I saw lightning split a tree nearly in half. That pretty much took the joy out of prancing around in thunderstorms.

I wrote my first poem about a bunny. 'Bunny, bunny, hop hop hop. White and soft like a little mop.

KATE: "At fourteen months little girls' fingers and pacifiers are introduced into the vagina, and at fifteen months a girl baby has been known to fall asleep with her genitalia on her teddy bear. Finally, at sixteen months they start using a pencil." SAMANTHA: Don't little boys use pencils? HOLLY: No. They write with their cocks.

at the press conference for the film he impressed everyone with his complete sincerity and innocence. he said he had come to see the sea for the first time and marveled at how clean it was. someone told him that, in fact, it wasn't. 'when the world is emptied of human beings' he said, 'it will become so again

I'm convinced that one of the most powerful forces on earth is the prayer of a child.