Quotes About Innocence

PriveÈ™te-l în adâncul ochilor; are o inim? ca de copil, atât de curat?, atât de singuratic?!

Anything can become a children's book if you give it to a child...Children are actually the best (and worst) audience for literature because they have no patience with pretence.

She remembered the story from her childhood, about Adam and Eve in the garden, and the talking snake. Even as a little girl she had said - to the consternation of her family - What kind of idiot was Eve, to believe a snake? But now she understood, for she had heard the voice of the snake and had watched as a wise and powerful man had fallen under its spell. Eat the fruit and you can have the desires of your heart. It's not evil, it's noble and good. You'll be praised for it. And it's delicious.

He was only a child, doing what adults led him to do; but somewhere in his heart he knew that even a child is a real person, that a child's acts are real acts, that even a child's play is not without moral context.

Little children gladly accept even the strangest stories that others tell them, because they lack either the context or the confidence to doubt. They go along because they don't know how to be alone, either physically or intellectually.

When Chveya was seven years old she had understood perfectly how the world worked. Now she was eight, and there were some questions.

The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood.

Little children gladly accept even the strangest stories that others tell them, because they lack either the context or the confidence to doubt.

Ender laughed and shook his head. 'You're actually having fun, Val' 'I can't think why I shouldn't.

somewhere in his heart he knew that even a child is a real person, that a child's acts are real acts, that even a child's play is not without moral context.

Not bad for two kids who've only got about eight pubic hairs between them, Peter said.

They make Lord of the Flies look like Pollyanna." "When did you read Pollyanna?" "It was a book?

Children couldn't stomach the truth, adults believed. Children had to be protected from the harsh realities of the world.

Children never do understand their own childishness. Then

Para conservar la alegría de la infancia tendrías que morir siendo niño, o vivir como tal, sin convertirte nunca en hombre, sin crecde jamás.

Children never do understand their own childishness.

Peter, pretending to take a crushed pea out of his nose

I dont believe in learning from other peoples pictures. I think you should learn from your own interior vision of things and discover, as I say, Innocently, as though there had never been anybody.

But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.

When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.

She was tall, exotic, so very young she seemed to flutter.

The Master said of Gong Yechang, "He is marriageable. Although he was once imprisoned and branded as a criminal, he was in fact innocent of any crime." The Master gave him his daughter in marriage. (Analects 5.1)

What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream

Cormac McCarthy