Quotes About Innocence

I'm still shocked every time I see snow. The first bit of snow each year... I stay up and I watch it. And then I go out and pick it up and eat it and move around in it.

There's a time I can recall Four years old and three feet tall Trying to touch the stars and the cookie jar And both were out of reach

..children know such a lot now, they soon don't believe in fairies, and every time a child says, 'I don't believe in fairies,' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

I was probably nine or ten the first time I heard there was no Santa Claus.

The key to mostly anything is pretending your first time isn't.

Running around when I was a kid was a really happy time; a time when getting home for dinner or for sleep were my only responsibilities.

We often don't realize the passing of years until we see them in a child.

We look at the world once, in childhood.The rest is memory

Kids don't have much accumulated and deep memories and that's why they happily live in the present time!

To look beautiful and innocent all the time, keep your heart beautiful and innocent all the time!

Backward turn backward O Time in your flight Make me a child again just for tonight.

We've let the blade of our innocence dull over time, and it's only in innocence that you find any kind of magic, any kind of courage.

I did spend a lot of time as a child very confused about whether I had a devil in me, or whether I was in a state of grace. I mean, these ideas are so potent to anybody with half an imagination.

We were just a gaggle of kids, and everybody played together and had a good time. You know how kids can be completely horrible; abusive but fun. But anyway, it was a nice childhood.

Innocence and mystery never dwell long together.

Good Lord, even to his own ears they sounded like a pair of coconspirators being so overhearty in their enthusiastic simulation of innocence that they proclaimed themselves as guilty as hell.

the best man for the job can sometimes be a four-year-old girl.

Once I told Ha?anala about the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. . . . I told her how Abraham bargained with God for the lives of ten righteous men who might have lived there. She said to me, ?Abraham should have taken the babies from the cities. The babies were innocent.?

In those days, I still enjoyed a child's desperate tendency to put sparkles on my whole tribe.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop. Mark Twain

We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory. Louise Glück, "Nostos

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop. Mark Twain The

You're like a little wild thing that was never sent to school.

I saw what a child must love, I saw what love might have done had we loved in time.