Quotes About Innocence

It's also probably fair to say she was probably too young at thirteen to innocently open the drawer under his bed and come across a leather gas mask type thing with a leather dick attached where she presumed a nose should be, along with associated whips, gels, handcuffs and other unexplainable objects Unfortunately, once seen, never unseen and it was a lesson for her at a young age that you never know people until you've been through their drawers and computer history

even at the park the mothers got tired of calling their own children away from ours as if they might catch leprosy very small children don't care about skin colour, Rachel, until they're brainwashed by their parents

I had to point at Hanna. But the finger I pointed at her turned back to me. I had loved her. I tried to tell myself that I had known nothing of what she had done when I chose her. I tried to talk myself into the state of innocence in which children love their parents. But love of our parents is the only love for which we are not responsible. ...And perhaps we are responsible even for the love we feel for our parents.

Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he has but two friends. In his almost universal unpopularity he points out, with pride, that these two are the dog and the horse. He believes, with an innocence peculiar to himself, that they are equally proud of this alleged confraternity. He says, 'Look at my two noble friends -- they are dumb, but they are loyal.' I have for years suspected that they are only tolerant.

To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child.

But even the most general ideas of God should not be forced on a childish mind; they should come, so to speak, by chance; they should be presented in answer to some demand of the child's heart; they should be inculcated by stray words and passing remarks; they should form the atmosphere surrounding the child habitually, and not be a sudden "wind of doctrine."

Don't grow up too fast, darling. Age is inevitalbe but if you nurture a childlike heart you'll never grow old.

Miz Goodpepper leaned forward and looked deep into my eyes. "My grandmother said, 'Don't grow up too fast, darling. Age is inevitable, but if you nurture a childlike heart, you'll never ever grow old.

All I know is that growing up hurts too much. Growing down is what I'd really like to do. Be little enough again so it would be perfectly natural to be protected from the wind and the rain—and the world.

Quite often somebody will say, 'What year do your books take place?' and the only answer I can give is, in childhood.

Livy says when her mama and papa are happy she hears them jumping on the bed at night. Are you going to jump on the bed?

and little Jeremiah

Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic.

Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.

Now the man and his wife were both naked, but they felt no shame.

Racetracks seem to reward innocence. If babies were permitted to wager, they'd ultimately win so much money that management everywhere would bar them. NO BABIES ALLOWED, says a big sign at Hialeah. At Belmont Park, it reads, BEAT IT, BABIES.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children.

Maybe it was because of the speed and danger. Or the psychedelic disco ball and the Beatles. Or the 'Suicide' fountain drinks and the crowded boys bathroom. But Skateland on Lindsey Street was absolutely the place to be in the Sixties.

Janelle woke up, terrified. This wasn't that unusual. Janelle was terrified over lots of stuff...spiders, hamsters, people. As a little girl, she once called 911 to report that her shadow was following her.

A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.' 'That's why animals are so soft and huggy.