Quotes About Innocence

The main thing about SpongeBob is that he celebrates innocence. His outlook on life is very optimistic and earnest, and I think kids relate to that. He has a creative spark in the same way children are very creative from an open and naive perspective.

A lot of people have said that I've got a voice that speaks to children. I think I've got a natural naivety to me. I'm childish.

The first things I remember drawing were battles - big sheets of paper covered in terrible scenes of carnage - though when you looked closely, there were little jokes and speech bubbles and odd things going on in the background.

When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and write.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

The first album I bought was the Spice Girls, ha ha.

I think every kid is a 'Spider-Man' fan at some point.

I certainly wasn't the kind of kid that grew up collecting bugs and spiders.

There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with.

Children are perfectly happy to sit next to spiders; it is only grown-ups who are frightened away.

Who's not played spin the bottle? But I never done the kiss version. I always wanted to, but I never did. We did the truth or dare one instead.

I always wrote little things when I was younger. My first opus was a book of poems put down in a spiral notebook at five or six, handsomely accompanied by crayon illustrations.

Spiritually, I understand that Trump is an innocent child of God. And before he was a Presidential candidate, I found him to be a kind of entertaining American character. But he is not entertaining anymore; he is frightening. He has been elected to the Presidency of the United States and yet he acts like he is mocking the job.

I don't know, maybe I'm overly paranoid that they're going to be spoiled, but I want to keep them going as kids for as long as I can. I want to keep them innocent and free.

Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.

The world is crazily in love with you, wildly and innocently in love. Even now, thousands of secret helpers are conspiring to turn you into the beautiful curiosity you were born to be.

For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.

Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children are pure, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

Childhood constitutes the most important element in an adult's life, for it is in his early years that a man is made.

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.

I do not judge you. The magistrate sits in your heat that judges you. I never thought you but a good man, John-only somewhat bewildered.

There is no client as scary as an innocent man.

My job as a prosecutor is to do justice. And justice is served when a guilty man is convicted and an innocent man is not.