Quotes About Innocence

That's not to say I came from the streets or anything - most of the time I was on my grandmother's back porch. I was kept in a constant state of amniotic fluid.

I would watch 'Wizard of Oz,' like every day, when I was two. I had a hard time understanding that I couldn't go into the film, because it felt so real to me.

When I was 6, I saw a commercial that Jessica Simpson was in and that was the first time I felt my little heart flutter.

Like a virgin, touched for the very first time.

I had to try to figure out what it would be like to do things for the first time, almost as if you're a child.

I wonder what Adam and Eve think of it by this time.

The first time you hear the word "Daddy," I don't care who you are, your heart just melts.

I had a lovely time growing up.

I was 4 years old when I sang in public for the very first time.

As children we all wonder - we wonder all the time. And that gets lost in adulthood. It gets beaten out, it gets filtered out or diluted out.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.

At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on there clothes to keep them from being stolen.

When I am come to mine own again, I will always honor little children, remembering how that these trusted me and believed me in my time of trouble; whilst they that were older, and thought themselves wiser, mocked at me and held me for a liar.

Children and fools always speak the truth.

Hello Huckleberry! Hello, yourself, and see how you like it. What's that you got? Dead cat. Lemme see him, Huck. My, he's pretty stiff. Where'd you get him? Bought him off'n a boy.

I did not steal your paltry goods!

Say—what is dead cats good for, Huck? Good for? Cure warts with.

Being in love is like getting back to childhood. You're just happy for no reasons at all.

Not long after, as Tom, all undressed for bed, was surveying his drenched garments by the light of

She was as simple-hearted and honest as the day was long, and so she was an easy victim. She gathered together her quack periodicals and her quack medicines, and thus armed with death, went about on her pale horse, metaphorically speaking, with hell following after.

is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but not from an individual—he is a

Artemus Ward used that trick a good deal; then when the belated audience presently caught the joke he would look up with innocent surprise, as if wondering what they had found to laugh at. Dan Setchell used it before

When I am come to mine own again, I will always honour little children, remembering how that these trusted me and believed in me in my time of trouble; whilst they that were older, and thought themselves wiser, mocked at me and held me for a liar.

That was the greatest heart and the simplest that ever beat.