Quotes About Innocence

The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eyes and the heart of the child.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

The days went by for him, all different and all the same. The boy was happy, and yet he didn't know that he was happy, exactly: he couldn't remember having been unhappy. If one day as he played at the edge of the forest some talking bird had flown down and asked him: "Do you like your life" he would not have known what to say, but would have asked the bird: "Can you not like it?

Never lose the child like wonder. It's just too important. It's what drives us. Help others.

I've often carried a crayon in my shirt pocket. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and I take another hit.

Everyone, at nineteen, is dumb and beautiful in equal parts...

Montag, you're looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going, a long time back. I said nothing. I'm one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the "guilty," but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.

I talk all the time about the eight-year-old me and all the eight-year-olds who are living in their camps.

Children are often better actors than adults because they have a greater capacity for believing in a situation.

It captures a lot of the spirit of the '50s.

My first playpen was a cardboard box.

When I was a kid, those were carefree days without much pressure.

I wish I could be more carefree. I grew up fast.

Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies.

'Rugrats' was my favorite cartoon growing up as a kid.

When I was younger, I used to watch a lot of cartoons.

As a kid, I always had my nose buried in the side of a cereal box.

Children can change the world.

I like being a 10-year-old kid who's in charge.

You can't charge somebody with something they have not done.

I was a big 'Charlie Brown' fan as a kid.

While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought.

I had aquariums of bullfrogs and mudpuppies. My poor mom had to deal with me incubating chicken eggs in my bedroom.

There is a child in all of us.