Quotes About Innocence

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. PABLO PICASSO

Every child is born an artist. The trick is remaining one as an adult.

Todo niño es un artista. El problema es cómo seguir siendo artista una vez que se crece».

Remember, your artist is a child. Find and protect that child. Learning to let yourself create is like learning to walk.

He seems to think I'm about five, the way he's treating me.' Lizzie took the lantern and placed in on a table. 'I don't suppose you had anything to do with that, didn't you?' 'Oh no,' I said, eyes round and innocent.

Memories of childhood were the dreams that stayed with you after you woke.

Games are for childhood, and sometimes I think I lost my childhood young.

Isn't growing up a necessary process of losing one's innocence? Maybe, maybe not. But the trouble with life is, you rarely know when that loss is going to happen, do you? And how it will be, afterwards.

It seems to me that when you are young, you think about sex most of the time, but you don't reflect on it much

when I see pairs of young lovers, vertically entwined on street corners, or horizontally entwined on a blanket in the park, the main feeling it arouses in me is a kind of protectiveness. No, not pity: protectiveness. Not that they would want my protection. And yet—and this is curious—the more bravado they show in their behaviour, the stronger my response. I want to protect them from what the world is probably going to do to them, and from what they will probably do to one another.

May you be ordinary, as the poet once wished the newborn baby.

it is better to be gullible than suspicious.

Finally she said, When I grow up, I'm going to live out here. I'll probably be a Miss Somebody, too... Don't grow up, I told her. It only gets more confusing.

Christina was so feminine, so dainty, so damned innocent-looking … and she wore a knife strapped to her leg.

Surely there must be something they had said, or done, surely there must be some mistake they had made, surely they must be guilty of something, some obscure crime, perhaps, of which they were not even aware.

BEYOND THE FARM, they'd heard, there were strange pale children who grew up entirely indoors and knew nothing of the fields and streams. Some of these children, they'd heard, had never even seen a tree.

looked so sweet, so absolutely adorable

Porquê Sorcha? - disse ele. -Porquê ela para tanto sofrimento? Ela está inocente de qualquer maldade, incapaz de um pensamento mau. Porque há-de ela fazer este sacrifício por nós? - Porque é a mais forte - disse Conor simplesmente. - Porque dobra com o vento, mas não quebra. Sorcha é o fio que nos liga a todos. Sem ela somos como folhas ao vento, sopradas de um lado para o outro.

When boys played "guerrilla warfare," which was their version of cowboys and Indians, the enemy side would have thorns glued onto their noses and say "hello" all the time.

InocenÅ£a ei feminin? îl preschimbase într-un duÅŸman.

what cheered me most was to watch the girl quietly playing with her yoyo in the shadow of the emergency stairs, unseen by anyone but me. She was burdened with a great misfortune that she could not perceive as misfortune. She did not know how much luckier she was than the rest of mankind aware of unhappiness.

Seducing innocent virgins is such a tiring venture." Christian lifted a brow. "Are we back to that?

Billie Jo threw the pail, they said. An accident, they said.

There was no point in telling my father. He'd never let me quit after only one day. He couldn't help me and he'd make some terrible blunder if he tried. Parents are too innocent for the Boschian landscapes of middle school.