Quotes About Innocence

There are actual monsters in the world, but when my kids ask I pretend like there aren't.

The greatest privilege of childhood is to live totally in the present.

The happiness of children is based on their ignorance of what their parents are really thinking

Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

Daddy, What's the horizontal tango?

Then what sport do you play?" Carlos puts down his food. Oh, no. He's got a rebellious gleam in his eye as he says, "The horizontal tango." ------------------------------------------- "Dancing really isn't a sport," Brandon tells Carlos, oblivious to the shock at the rest of the table. "It is when I do it," Carlos says. ------------------------------------------- Brandon turns to my dad with big, innocent eyes. "Daddy, do YOU know how to do the horizontal tango?

I brush a strand of hair from her face, then move beside her. When she wraps her arms around my neck, all I want to do is protect this girl for the rest of my life. I ease her jacket open and lean away. A pink lace bra stares back at me. Nothing else. "Como un angel," I whisper. "Is our game over?" she asks nervously. "It's definitely over, querida. 'Cause what we're gonna do next is no game.

Sometimes good men need to do things that aren't good. Right?" I ruffle his hair. Luis is way more innocent than I was at his age. "You know, I think you're gonna be the smartest Fuentes yet, little bro.

In such a people world, filled with a real, immediate, and tangible sense of belongingness, did I spend the earliest years of my life. I was not only wanted, I was loved. I was cherished. The adults in my world, no doubt, had their cares and their sorrows. But childhood, by its very nature, is a magic-filled world, egocentric, wonderfully carefree, and innocent. Mine was all these things and more.

Stare at the Newborn baby then you'll see love and peace.

But of what avail was the innocence of the accused in days when an indictment was equal to a conviction!

When a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies. They live in nests on the tops of trees; and the mauve ones are boys and the white ones are girls, and the blue ones are just little sillies who are not sure what they are.

It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing known for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.

Infancy is irretrievable. Its memories live underground. To what extent they return by stealth or are triggered by various catalysts remains an ongoing question.

Venus is kind to creatures as young as we;We know not what we do, and while we're youngWe have the right to live and love like gods.

There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third.

I thought acting was what grownups did. It was such a part of my childhood. I was already in love with performing before I knew there were other options. By then, it was too late.

I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.

Love is like ice in the hands of children.

And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd

As chaste as unsunned snow.

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

Sweet the young muse with love intense, Which smiles o'er sleeping innocence.