Quotes About Innocence

Kate Reese shivered when she realized the sad truth: Even monsters are adorable when they are little.

Little kids talk about the strangest things. They really do.

why were you happier when you were a kid? Because you didn't know anything. The more you know, the sadder you get.

It was wrong to do this, said the angel. You should live like a flower, Holding malice like a puppy, Waging war like a lambkin. Not so, quoth the man Who had no fear of spirits; It is only wrong for angels Who can live like the flowers, Holding malice like the puppies, Waging war like the lambkins.

You can never hope to recapture the first fine careless rapture

The girl who played Gwendolen stood out like a good deed in a naughty world.

Et in arcadia ego.' Why should they notice it? Its shadow will be on them soon enough and they in turn will be wagging fingers at their children and saying, 'I too once lived in arcadia, you know …' and their children will not listen either.

Learn subtlety, James," he said. "It is perfectly possible to destroy something innocent, yet leave no public mark.

To know how cherries and strawberries taste, ask children and birds. GOETHE

Come on back and we'll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure in belief and thus afraid of the dark.

Don't ask me silly questions I won't play silly games I'm just a simple choo choo train And I'll always be the same. I only want to race along Beneath the bright blue sky And be a happy choo choo train Until the day I die.

When I was a kid I believed everything I was told, everything I read, and every dispatch sent out by my own overheated imagination. This made for more than a few sleepless nights, but it also filled the world I lived in with colors and textures I would not have traded for a lifetime of restful nights.

Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children.

You don't have to look back to see those children; part of your mind will see them forever. They are not necessarily the best part of you, but they were once the repository of all you could become.

Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.

the late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood ...

Small children are great accepters. They don't understand shame, or the need to hide things.

Children have to grow into their imaginations like a pair of oversized shoes.

Innocence to experience. Human nature, baby. Grab it and growl.

The Writer: [voiceover] I was 12 going on 13 the first time I saw a dead human being. It happened in the summer of 1959-a long time ago, but only if you measure in terms of years. I was living in a small town in Oregon called Castle Rock. There were only twelve hundred and eighty-one people. But to me, it was the whole world.

Perhaps kids really did come into the world trailing clouds of glory, as Wordsworth had so confidently proclaimed, but they also shit in their pants until they learned better.

As W.H. Auden pointed out, the Reaper takes the rolling in money, the screamingly funny, and those who are very well hung. But that isn't where Auden starts his list. He starts with the innocent young.

When you're six, most of your Bingo balls are still floating around in the draw-tank.

They found him guilty, and brother, if Maine had the death penalty, he would have done the airdance before that spring's crocuses poked their heads out of the dirt.