Quotes About Innocence

My mother found a letter, though, that I wrote her when I was 8 years old and it was a letter where I asked if she could take me to the orphanage because I would like to adopt a little baby.

When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll.

My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.

The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby; the sweet simple things in life. We have almost lost track of them.

Babies! What a wonderful way to start people!

When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.

At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.

My mother bore me in the southern wild, And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child, But I am black as if bereaved of light.

Already the new-born children interpret love In the voices of mothers.

I envy my daughter's childhood.

I have always been a flirt. My mother says whe I was a child, I used to stand outside the house and just smile at everyone who walked by. Like, 'Please take me with you!'

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

We are all born artists. ... Almost everything kids do is art.

Only animals were not expelled from Paradise.

Be a child again. Flirt. Giggle. Dip your cookies in your milk. Take a nap. Say you're sorry if you hurt someone. Chase a butterfly. Be a child again.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

My innocence is wearin' thinBut my heart is growing strong.

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.

To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

I liked when I was naive and I thought it was just about making good music.

Mozart didn't need a scheme for his music. He played and sang with the heavenly lightness of a child.

I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song.

Great men have the nature of a child.