Quotes About Innocence

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

The little ones are the only good human beings.

They say that rape is the only crime in which the victim has to prove her innocence. And I want you to know, I believe in your innocence. You don't have to prove anything to me.

Innocence is a bleeding wound without a bandage, a wound that opens with every casual knock from casual passers-by. Experience is an armour.

All those practice fights when it was just us, two children pretending to be soldiers. Or two soldiers pretending to be children.

It is so heartbreaking what we do to children in this world

A face whose emotions had not yet been battered by experience.

Strawberry fields forever

Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.

Maybe I'm just a kid in love.

Kids don't see hate in their eyes. They see the world, and living in it to the best of their abilities. And that's where love comes from for me.

After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.

A first book has some of the sweetness of a first love.

The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it.

Children are born innocent. Before they are domesticated they live in the moment, love without fear, and don't even think about the opinions of others.

The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,The humble sheep a threat'ning horn:While the Lily white shall in love delight,Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.

There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.

And it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

Know ye what it is to be a child? It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief.

You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.

If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

I'm still a little girl in Hawaii, I have the same friends I had when I was a kid who love me for who I am - not what I do. I never got caught up in the club scene or took wrong roads.

I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.

If it doesn't fit, then you must acquit.