Quotes About Innocence

Babies are born every day but truly, each one is a little miracle.

Sometimes I have this little girl in me who craves to do something mischievous.

I never actually watched 'Teletubbies.' Maybe I missed out.

The characteristic of 'Oxygene' is a mixture of innocence and ambition, of trying to do something different in a different way.

In 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was just playing and having a good time.

I look back at my childhood, and the films that I remember the most are things like 'Mary Poppins,' 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,' 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,' 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'

I do believe that if models look like children, then they shouldn't be sexualised.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

I bugged my mom and dad to 'get me inside the television set' when I was about four years old.

'Forrest Gump' is filled full of moments where your heart just cheers.

My favorite thing to wear from about first to third grade was a blue t-shirt with an iron-on monkey and the caption 'Here Comes Trouble.'

When I was a little girl, I used to watch a lot of monster movies, like 'Godzilla.' All those monster movies.

I think that most of the monsters I dream of, I dreamt of as a child.

Kids are the most beautiful beings that can come into your life.

But these cries proceeded not so much from a conviction of wounded justice and deceived innocence as from their opposites. It was the sublime, ironic, and irrevocable justice of what had happened to them, and their knowledge that they alone had been responsible for it, that maddened them. From this arose their sense of outrage and their cries of vengeance.

The perfect state of creative bliss is having power (you are 50) and knowing nothing (you are 9). This assures an interesting and successful outcome.

Stick Boy liked Match Girl, he liked her a lot. He liked her cute figure, he thought she was hot.

Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life trying to find a certain simplicity that you had. It's less about staying in childhood than keeping a certain spirit of seeing things in a different way.

Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.

150 miles outside Baghdad and began shooting children. By his own account, he 'saw that children were in the room kneeling down. I

Linda was nine then, as I was, but we were in love...it had all the shadings and complexities of mature adult love and maybe more, because there were not yet words for it, and because it was not yet fixed to comparisons or chronologies or the ways by which adults measure such things...I just loved her. Even then, at nine years old, I wanted to live inside her body. I wanted to melt into her bones -- that kind of love.

I am forever astonished at the longevity of childhood. How it never ends. How we are what we were. How turtles and engines and stolen kisses leave their jet trail across our gaping lives.

A nine-year-old girl, just a kid, and yet there was something ageless in her eyes— not a child, not an adult — just an ongoing everness, that same pinprick of absolute lasting light that I see today in my own eyes as Timmy smiles at Tim from the graying photographs of that time.

Dobbins shrugged his shoulders. What's serious? I was a kid. This thing is, I believed in God and all that, but it wasn't the religious part that interested me. Just being nice to people, that's all. Being decent.