Quotes About Innocence

But nothing warps time quite like childhood

You might look into the eyes of an infant, born mere minutes ago, to find that she is a thousand years old. Their limitless warmth and wisdom belie her true age.

Si se lo permitimos, los niños pueden enseñarnos la salida. Hay una historia muy conocida de una madre que entra en la habitación de su hijo recién nacido y se encuentra a su otro hijo, un niño de cuatro años, asomado a la cuna. -Tienes que contarme cómo es el cielo y cómo es Dios -le implora el niño a su hermanito-. ¡Estoy empezando a olvidarme!

Si se lo permitimos, los niños pueden enseñarnos la salida.

If we allow them, children can show us the way out.

When she was little, her father, just before he went to bed, used to check his watch and ask in surprise, "How did it get so late so early?

When a kid says "smell my hand," it almost never smells like cinnamon.

the tears of the innocent are heavier than the guilty, but in the end they are still just tears

Your first crush is allowed to be on a doofus." "Mine won't be. I'll choose a handsome gypsy boy who'll break my heart, or a soft girl with a diamond in her belly button.

I feel like I'm a much better person when I'm developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I'm just working on my analytical mind.

Children like yourselves are full of magic, but the men have turned, they've lost their magic to the fear and hatred they harbor for all that they can't explain, control, or understand.

Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.

One day, I spent a long time with Isaac drawing a tea party for dinosaurs. On a huge piece of brown packaging paper we drew allosaurs and tyrannosaurs sitting on little chairs, with hind legs politely crossed

Quali sono, quindi le prime impressioni che un bimbo nomade ha del mondo? Un capezzolo dondolante e una cascata d'oro.

His one friend was the black boy, Pepeu, whom he held in thrall. Together they plucked finches alive, made certain experiments with the flesh of a watermelon, and shouted obscenities at the girls washing tripes in the river.    Once, they tried crucifying a cat, but it got away.

The usual run of children's books left me cold, and at the age of six I decided to write a book of my own. I managed the first line, 'I am a swallow.' Then I looked up and asked, 'How do you spell telephone wires?

Before she knew it, it had found her finger and was contentedly sucking on it.

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

How much sinning could you actually have done at a second-grade level?

Evan James was done up in a white suit, looking very handsome and calling "Dada, Dada" during the ceremony

My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity.

The books we read in childhood don't exist anymore; they sailed off with the wind, leaving bare skeletons behind. Whoever still has in him the memory and marrow of childhood should rewrite these books as he experienced them.

This has led George Marsden to observe that while "Calvinists had maintained that the human mind was blinded in mankind's Fall from innocence, in the Common Sense version, the intellect seemed to suffer from a slight astigmatism only."42