Quotes About Innocence

No. No, first comes boyhood. You get to play with soldiers and spacemen, cowboys and ninjas, pirates and robots. But before you know it, all that comes to an end. And then, Remo Williams, is when the adventure begins.

I suppose the only time we ever really get to be happy in life—like one hundred percent blissful—is when we're little kids. Because there's less to worry about? Because we're too stupid to know how worried we should be.

I hope there are other animals my age out there. I always wanted to kill a baby goat!

A man on the run finds compassion or loveor even pretended innocence his greatest source of danger.

He knew nothing of earls and castles; he was quite ignorant of all grand and splendid things; but he was always lovable because he was simple and loving. To be so is like being born a king.

We're all five-year-olds. We don't know how to do this thing called life. We're just learning how.

Children don't know these things. So we begin now. That's what I love about this Work—we can write from a three-year-old perspective if we need to. It's timeless.

Because what's perplexing is not that you and I encounter suffering in this life; what's really perplexing is that He suffered in our place. Why did the innocent One suffer for our sins?

Su ingenuidad y su bondad parecían convertirlo en un imán irresistible para mujeres que devoraban hombres para desayunar y después escupían los restos

What was an infant's view of air travel? You go to a special place, walk into a large room with seats in it, and sit down. The room rumbles and shakes for four hours. Then you get up and walk off. Magically, you're somewhere else. The means of transportation seems obscure to you, but the basic idea is easy to grasp, and precocious mastery of the Navier-Stokes equations is not required.

There is only one child in the world and the Child's name is All Children.

Goodness in the form of innocence can render you a pray to others. In a predatory world , it is not always easy to distinguish virtue from guillibility. This is one reason why there is something quaint as well as imposing about the word 'virtue'.

Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.

Avoir de la compassion pour les coupables revient à trahir les innocents.

Real children do not go hoppity skip unless they are on drugs.

It was nice to hear the voices of little children at play, provided you took care to be far enough away not to hear what they were actually saying.

AAaargwannawannaaaagongongonaargggaaaaBLOON! which is the traditional sound of a very small child learning that with balloons, as with life itself, it is important to know when not to let go of the string. The whole point of balloons is to teach small children this.

He couldn't help remembering how much he'd wanted a puppy when he was a little boy. Mind you, they'd been starving – anything with meat on it would have done.

You were the kind of kid who couldn't see the difference between throwing rocks at a cat and setting it on fire.

I know nothing about her. Just some books, and some stories she tried to tell me, and things I didn't understand, and I remember big red soft hands and that smell. I never knew who she really was. I mean, she must have been nine too, once.

Look out! He's got a daisy!

Sometimes Carrot sounded like a civics essay written by a stunned choirboy.

Young Sam looked solemn for a moment and then said, I think I'll let Mr. Whistle do the being scared and then it won't bother me.

What happens when we get old? he wondered. Where does the kid part of us go?