Quotes About Innocence

I had a happy childhood, I didn't know about money then.

I had a really happy childhood.

It's hard for me to believe someone could harm a child.

There's no harm in me. Really, I'm just a big kid.

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

Enjoy and have fun when you're a kid, because you are a kid.

It's easier for a kid to have fun and have an imagination.

I still consider myself a little, fat kid from Hawaii.

Pretty much all children are helpful to act with; they lack any guile when they act.

I wore miniskirts when I was younger. We used to hide them in our bags before going out.

Ere long, I learned that it was not myself, but only my shadow, that I had lost. I learned that it is better, a thousand-fold, for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his pride and fancied innocence. I learned that he that will be a hero, will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work, is sure of his manhood.

His little heart was so full of merriment that it could not hold it all, and it ran over into theirs.

No; I'm not bad. But sometimes beautiful things grow bad by doing bad, and it takes some time for their badness to spoil their beauty. So little boys may be mistaken if they go after things because they beautiful.

I do not write for children, but for the childlike, whether of five, or fifty, or seventy-five.

I learned that it is better, a thousand-fold, for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his pride and fancied innocence. I learned that he that will be a hero, will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his work, is sure of his manhood.

For when is the child the ideal child in our eyes and to our hearts? Is it not when with gentle hand he takes his father by the beard, and turns that father's face up to his brothers and sisters to kiss? when even the lovely selfishness of love-seeking has vanished, and the heart is absorbed in loving?

No; I'm not bad. But sometimes beautiful things grow bad by doing bad, and it takes some time for their badness to spoil their beauty. So little boys may be mistaken if they go after things because they are beautiful.

I learned that it is better, a thousand-fold, for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his pride and fancied innocence.

There is a childhood into which we have to grow, just as there is a childhood which we must leave behind; a childlikeness which is the highest gain of humanity, and a childishness from which but few of those who are counted the wisest among men, have freed themselves in their imagined progress towards the reality of things.

He that sees the essential in this child, the pure childhood, sees that which is the essence of me," grace and truth-in a word, childlikeness. It follows not that the former is perfect as the latter, but it is the same in kind, and therefore, manifest in the child, reveals that which is in Jesus.

for childhood is the deepest heart of humanity-its divine heart;

The boy should enclose and keep, as his life, the old child at the heart of him, and never let it go. He must still, to be a right man, be his mother's darling, and more, his father's pride, and more. The child is not meant to die, but to be for ever fresh-born.

Of all children how can the children of God be old?

In her, ignorance and stupidity formed a perfect shield against the world: this, I suppose, is innocence. It