Quotes About Innocence

If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture

Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.

What I love about kids is there innate ability to love unconditionally - we can all learn from this

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

My earliest childhood memory was watching my parents loosen the wheels on my stroller.

Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before

No animal is so inexhaustible as an excited infant.

It reminds me that we are born innocent but ignorant, and that to remedy the second of these conditions we inevitably surrender the first.

Kids are flat-out freaking hilarious if you are paying attention. Not just my kid, but every kid.

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.

In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.

I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.

If you want real peace in the world, start with children.

Living with a dog is one way to retain something of a child's spirit.

Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right, for that shall bring a man peace at the last.

Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men.

How many innocent people and children suffer in the world! Lord, grant us your peace!

These idle disputants overlooked the invariable laws of nature, which have connected peace with innocence, plenty with industry, and safety with valour.

The peace of nature and of the innocent creatures of god seems to be secure and deep, only so long as the presence of man and his restless and unquiet spirit are not there to trouble its sanctity.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

I tucked him in with his stuffed-animal pet dog—cleverly named Dog-Dog, by the way.

Dogs are always good and full of selfless love. They are undiluted vessels of joy who never, ever deserve anything bad that happens to them.

I slowly surrender to the child in me who can't say goodbye.