Quotes About Innocence

Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.

I love kids a lot. I love to spend time with them. They give me the energy to live, and I would love to bring a smile on their faces.

I love kids - they're so carefree and always put a smile on my face.

When your baby smiles at you with their whole body, it's enough to make me fall down.

The first record I was really into was the Drifters' 'When My Little Girl Is Smiling.'

People will say, 'What's your favorite part of Cincinnati?' I'm like, 'I was nine, man. I liked recess and having snacks. I didn't go anywhere. I was a kid.'

When I was seven, I decided to buy all my friends some ice cream, but the problem was where to get the money. Sneaking into church, I went to the side of the altar where you can light a candle for your loved ones and took the money from the collection boxes.

Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.

The very first movie that I ever saw in a theater was 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.'

The kids are so much fun. I'm always taking a look over at what they're doing because it reminds me of when I was so small before.

It's so much fun trying to channel my inner four-year-old.

I have so much fun writing for children.

It was such an infantile prayer, the sort of prayer a five-year-old might pray. But maybe those were the best kind.

oh how she wondered, what she looked like to him, in his alien innocence.

She liked sheep more than any other animal; they had an innocence and a serene intentness about them that was worlds away from the brutish cunning and manic excitability of, say, vodsels. Seen in poor light, they could almost be human children.

Eravamo come due bestie in un Eden degenere.

a child's disquiet is as potent as a damp fart.

His mouth had already been hanging open, but it managed to hang open further as the tiny close-set peepers crowding his nose opened with the wide-eyed innocence of a newborn suffering its first gas pain.

Algo se marchitó de repente dentro de su ser: quizá la fe en la perennidad de la infancia.

Todo se le vuelve decir que la infancia es un tesoro, pero la vida es un desatino, y los niños no la disfrutan en su afán de hacerse hombres.

Very young children are not afraid to express what they feel. They are so loving that if they perceive love, they melt into love. They are not afraid to love at all. That is the description of a normal human being.

The resurrection is to be like a child, but with a difference. The difference is that we have freedom with wisdom instead of innocence.

Very young children are not afraid to express what they feel. They are so loving that if they perceive love, they melt into love. They are not afraid to love at all. That is the description of a normal human being. As children we are not afraid of the future or ashamed of the past. Our normal human tendency is to enjoy life, to play, to explore, to be happy, and to love.

The happiest moments in our lives are when we are playing just like children, when we are singing and dancing, when we are exploring and creating just for fun. It is wonderful when we behave like a child because this is the normal human mind, the normal human tendency. As children, we are innocent and it is natural for us to express love. But what has happened to us? What has happened to the whole world?