Quotes About Innocence

I want my kids to grow up and enjoy their childhood and be carefree. I never really got a chance to be a kid.

All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.

My imagination is closer to a child's imagination than to a grown-up's.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

Grown-ups are afraid for children. It's not children who are afraid.

Just because you're convicted in a court room doesn't mean you're guilty of something.

I don't really want to have any part of getting guilty people off.

I have never done anything which I feel guilty about or wish I had not done it.

I always said I wasn't guilty of any criminal activity.

I think of childhood as an explosion of creativity. For most people, growing up and earning a living means leaving all that behind. But an artist never leaves that behind. Edwin Mullhouse was my way of exploring the child as artist and, under the guise of childhood, something larger.

I was so gullible as a kid.

I never used a gun in my life.

I feel like kids naturally love guns, so I was drawn to that.

Every once in a while someone without a single bad habit gets caught.

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.

I 'ad a toy when I was little,' said Suzy. She frowned for a moment, then added, 'Can't remember what it was. It moved and made me laugh...

Come, said Tanitha. Come to the Great Hall, and we will lie down with the puppies, and I will tell you a story. One about the Dog with the Wonderful Nose? asked Anya. She tried to smile, but found herself crying instead. But those are for puppies and children. You can never be too old for stories about the Dog with the Wonderful Nose, said Tanitha.

The innocent love of a child reflects God's unconditional love for us. — Betty J. Dalrymple —

Jesus said, "Let the children come to me. Don't stop them! For the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to those who are like these children." —Matthew 19:14

But there's something really nice about spending time with a little kid. You learn so much.

gentle and innocent as wolves as tricky as a prince

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.

There are times where excessive innocence seems so monstrous that it becomes hateful.

Little Lotte thought of everything and nothing. Her hair was golden as the sun's rays and her soul as clear and blue as her eyes. She wheedled her mother, was kind to her doll, took great care of her frock and her little red shoes and her fiddle, but most of all loved, when she went to sleep, to hear the Angel of Music.