Quotes About Innocence

The reason I love kids so much is because they're so honest, so you know right away if they like you or they don't.

An honest man is always a child.

Honestly, I'm not going to lie. I was a good kid.

A lawyer wants to get his client off the hook. And even if he knows the client is guilty, he is going to find ways and means of getting him off the hook.

In sixth and seventh grade, my two best friends and I pretended to be horses. Every day after school, we would gallop around, whinnying and stamping our hooves and tossing our manes - for hours.

I remember how much fun it was to be a child in the kibbutz.

I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world, it's hugely different.

When I was growing up, my favorite movie was 'Somewhere in Time' with Christopher Reeve, which is a hugely romantic, sappy movie. I couldn't understand it when the guy didn't get the girl or the girl didn't get the guy in love stories. I was definitely a sap.

All of us, as much as we like to think that we're evolved human beings, we're all still children deep down.

One of the best ways of understanding human nature is to study children. After all, if we want understand who we are, we should find out how we got to be that way.

Like children all over the world, by the age of 10 I'd come to believe that most of the really humane creatures were not really human at all.

I'm just very amused by five-year-old humor.

Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.

My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.

There's a child within me. Everything is fascinating. The hunger to learn, do better and more creative things never goes.

I have learned so much about myself. I have re-discovered that little boy who had the hunger to create, which I think I had lost.

The child is a metaphysical being.

The children in the woods play wild, secret games.

She had an invisible friend, a giant stuffed bear she called Ben. What kind of kid has an imaginary friend that's a stuffed animal? She collected hair ribbons and arranged them in alphabetical order by color name. She was the kind of girl who exploited her cuteness with such joy you couldn't begrudge her.

it's easy to like pregnant women—they're like ducklings or bunnies or dogs.

Watching the river flow over fish-white feet, so intently, utterly self-possessed even as a child.

Stunned children stood in the middle of grubby yards.

His eyes are mischievous, his lashes are long. I can see what he looked like as a boy.

Since little-girlhood, we're trained to find the Big Bad Wolf seductive.