Quotes About Innocence

the angel in man-- has also been my own life-long obsession. In a sense I believe it has always been the problem of the creative being... obsessed... with the idea of re-creating the world in order, as I see it, to re-establish man's innocence.

The sooner the gardener loses certain kinds of innocence the better, and there is no better place to begin than with the weather.

The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature,- of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!...Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself?

Ah! What would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour.

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.

I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb.

and yet a child's utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes.

I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago.

I remember myself, age five, sitting on a porch overlooking a very muddy road. The day was rainy. I was wearing rubber boots, yellow - no, not yellow, green - and for all I know, I'm still there.

What child has ever known the country and has not twined hundreds of fragrant wreaths with the yellow shining cowslip and the more frail and delicate violet - mingling here and there green leaves culled from the odorous eglantine, or, as we more commonly call it, sweetbriar.

If you see with innocent eyes, everything is divine.

Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.

There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good.

You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word. You can see how he solves his problems. You can also see what's wrong. Young children, especially, have enormous creativity, and whatever's in them rises to the surface in free play.

The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay 'forever young at heart.'

When I was young, I asked my priest how you could get to Heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He told me what God said to his children. You are sheep among wolves. Be wise as serpents, yet innocent as doves.

When you're young, you don't know what you don't know, so it's easier to get into that magical thing.

When I was a really young child, I felt like I could see fairies. I was convinced there were fairies in my grandmother's garden.

When I was young, around 5, I was crying in all the pictures of me. I did not like the flash; it scared me!

A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature.

Some of the most powerful memories are those when you are very, very young. Adult life is seen through the reflection of complex, rational thought.

I don't know if it's that my own childhood felt brief, or I grew up too fast, or I was pushing myself too much at a young age, but I do feel like I am clinging to a certain childlike quality in myself, as a result of a childhood that was sometimes complicated.