Quotes About Innocence

Most movies use older actors, but I thought, if I could just put kids on camera and get them to be themselves, what could be easier?

I've always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took on a rather demonic form.

I grew up a single kid and so my whole childhood was spent in my backyard dealing with imaginary circumstances and role playing and stuff.

I had this imaginary world where fairies were my friends. If you told six-year-old Juno that she'd one day play a Disney fairy, she'd totally freak out.

When you are young your imagination is so clear.

I had a good imagination and I still have one; a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away.

Kids have got such active imaginations and they're scared of so many different things.

My kids definitely give me all of my ideas. I'm always listening to what they talk about, how they play, what they play. Their imaginations are so incredible.

Children are so creative and imaginative that they just bring you to life all over again.

When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else.

When kids play, they are working on imagining the kind of world we live in.

I am too childlike to be immature.

When you hear a child's voice, it will have that immediate effect of putting you in mind of looking after children.

When I was a kid, I did dial the 900 numbers out of curiosity, but I was such a goodie-two-shoes that I immediately hung up because I didn't want it showing up on the bill.

The guilt of newborns is immense.

All spiritual things must have in them a childlike quality. The belief in immortality rests not very much on the hope of going on. Few of us want to do that, but we would like very much to begin again.

I've done no harm to no one. In fact, I think I've improved the world.

I've been saying inappropriate things since I was a kid.

People are inclined to say that I am Ramona. I'm not sure that's true, but I did share some experiences with her.

Wird man nicht immer wieder zum jungen Mädchen, wenn man losläuft, den Armen eines Mannes entgegen?

Die Liebe macht offenbar kindisch.

Laurino thought a jury could well interpret the back-and-forth of the girls as a not very elaborate cat-and-mouse game, orchestrated by Mari, who pretended she needed the tutelege of the sexually experienced Leslie, who, of course, was eager to guide her protegee, eager to prove just how experienced she was.

She waited uneasily and shyly. From afar he saw that her eyes--clearly her father's--were filled with desperate innocence. He pictured, in her, his own redemption. Violins and lit candles revolved in the sky. Leo ran forward with flowers out-thrust.

He remembered how satisfied he had been as a youngster, and that with the little he had had - a dog, a stick, an aloneness he loved (which did not bleed him like his later loneliness), and he wished he could have lived longer in his boyhood. This was an old thought with him.