Quotes About Innocence

What were they thinking, those little German children? Did they see animals when they looked at us, or people? I wasn't so sure myself anymore.

Nick felt a tear rise to his eye at the thought of the child's utter innocence of hangovers.

Thank heaven for little girls!For little girls get bigger every day.

Dearest dumpling, one day your imagination is going to get you into trouble," whispered his mother. He would never do that," Pecorino replied. "We're best friends.

The crippled child is not conscience of the handicap implied by his useless legs. Though often inconvenient or annoying, but he is confident that it will never prevent him from doing what he wants to do or being whatever he wishes to be. If he considers them a handicap its because he has been told they are. Children make no distinction between the one who's lame or the one who has use of all his limbs.

A little girl can be sweeter (and badder) oftener than anyone else in the world. She can jitter around, and stomp, and make funny noises that frazzle your nerves, yet just when you open your mouth she stands there demure with that special look in her eyes. A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.

Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people. They are born with a little bit of angelshine about them, and though it wears thin sometimes there is always enough left to lasso your heart-even when they are sitting in the mud, or crying temperamental tears, or parading up the street in mother's best clothes.

But you will come to regret this, Abigail. This won't be like one of the memories that fritters away into nothing when you come out of that game. This will leave a stain. You'll carry for it for ever, when you could have had a few more years of blissful innocence. Are you sure, now?

To me, everything is always new. People involved in my personal life make fun of me a lot for not being jaded.

I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people who seduce me personally are the people who seem not to know they're seductive, and not to know they have sex appeal.

It is a great thing about having young children, is that they don't really care whether you're the chief justice or whatever, and they do make sure that you have a good perspective on life and what's important.

I like animals because they are not consciously cruel and don't betray each other.

A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden.

All children, except two, grow up: Peter Pan and Donald Trump Jr.

I still find it quite easy to find my way into a child's imagination. We're all Peter Pan ourselves in some respects. Everybody should keep some grip on childhood, even as a grownup.

As a kid, I read 'Peter Pan,' and I really wanted to be him.

I'd done 'Peter Pan' in a little pre-K class or whatever.

If you fear phantoms, you're like a child frightened of seeing things in the dark.

I think everyone goes through a phase of longing to be little - I always wanted to be a girl who could sit on a man's lap, but that is just not going to happen.

I think about growing up back in Philly. It was about friendship with the guys and having a distant crush on some gal. And when you finally got the nerve to take her out on a date, you went to her parents' house with a shine on your shoes, took her to the movies, and got her home nice and early.

A lot of the children I photograph are extremely colorfully dressed in some way. But I also find a lot of kids with outsized personalities or who happen to be doing something charming.

I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.

I don't think it's physically possible for little kids to know what abstract thought is.

I kiss grandmas because they're clean. I haven't picked anything up from a grandma yet.