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Quotes About Innocence

'Between Shades of Gray' is a story of astonishing force. I feel grateful for a writer like Ruta Sepetys who bravely tells the hard story of what happens to the innocent when world leaders and their minions choose hate and oppression. Beautiful and unforgettable.
~ Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Jesus never uttered a loftier or a grander truth than when he said that wisdom cometh out of the mouths of babes.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Innocence is the source of love.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
Little pitchers have big ears.
~ John Heywood
Waiting for wisdom to open the cage, we forged in the fires of the innocent age.
~ Dan Fogelberg
Wisdom comes only with innocence.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
I was cured in my new infamy of all the tired wisdom of age. I would never weary into that tired state again - -I swore to myself, I would always be this raw, wet child hereafter.
~ Clive Barker
The fun is created only through innocence and innocence is the only way you can really emit also the fun. Imagine this world without any fun, what would happen?
~ Nirmala Srivastava
The wisdom in the story of the most educated and powerful person is often not greater than the wisdom in the story of a child, and the life of a child can teach us as much as the life of a sage.
~ Rachel Naomi Remen
An awesome thing children need is a frank smile from a sincere heart
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
When somebody you love dies, a phase of life's innocence dies with that person, and a part of you dies as well.
~ Janvier Chouteu-Chando
The murder of a child has no justification, even if the bombs have missed their mark.
~ Compton Gage
In the sacredness of pureness
~ a spark of divinity manifest.
Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public.
~ Criss Jami, Healology
Be as wise as a fox. Be as harmless as a dove.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
A child can die even in the safest place on earth- its mother's womb!
~ Munia Khan
The secret of childhood happiness is to succeed to be happy with the simplest things ever possible!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The spirits of children are remote and wise...
~ Frances Cornford
.keep the child inside you alive..
~ Boris Kovalík
I miss those times when I hadn't a clue.
~ Marina Leigh Hatfield
WHAT ARE YOU DOING TODAY TO LET ALIVE THE CHILD WITHIN YOU?
~ Seema Brain Openers
...I live with regrets - the bittersweet loss of innocence - the red track of the moon upon the lake - the inability to return and do it again...
~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
Wars cannot be won by destroying women and children
~ William D. Leahy
Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.
~ Cornelia Otis Skinner