Quotes About Innocence

driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is Heavens will; She can, though every face will scowl And every windy quarter howl Or every bellows burst, be happy still.

Das kann ich, sagte ich einfältiges Kind.

Los niños pequeños no se preocupan de la posición de alguien, ni de su educación o de si es rico o pobre –dice–. Responden a la sonrisa en tu rostro».

You never love a book the way you love a book when you are ten. It is an honor to be in that sacred space in some children's brains.

As the boy's vacant eyes moved across the crowd of amused onlookers, he slowly mirrored their smiles and finally broke into an uncertain grin at the joke which he did not understand. I felt sick inside as I looked at his dull, vacuous smile – the wide, bright eyes of a child, uncertain but eager to please, and I realized what I had recognized in him.

Growing up happens in a heartbeat. Once day you're in diapers, the next day you're gone. But the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul. I remember a place, a town, a house, like a lot of houses. A yard like a lot of other yards. On a street like a lot of other streets. And the thing is, after all these years, I still look back... with wonder. -Kevin from the finale of the Wonder Years

Ree, brunette and sixteen, with milk skin and abrupt green eyes, stood bare-armed in a fluttering yellowed dress, face to the wind, her cheeks reddening as if smacked and smacked again.

Children just need the time, the space, and the permission to be kids.

"Who lends his money without usury and does not accept a bribe against the innocent,"

I was not kicking Brady; I was just loving him with my boot.

I really love being human. But some days I really wish I could be a fairy.

"What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bees and he told me about the butcher and my wife."

Mommy. I'm not joking, I'm not kidding, and I'm not playing. I need chocolate.

So many reasons are there to love you. Your cute smile, your sweet laugh, your innocence and your kind heart makes me love you.

I've been in different countries, and a girl will come up and say, 'I love you. We are going to get married someday!' And I'm like, 'You're 11!'

I wish I were a little girl again, because skinned knees are easier to fix than broken heart.

"Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems."

My best friend and I went to sleep-away camp every summer. We'd share stories of making out with boys, but we never did, so we made it all up. My real first kiss was at a friend's house when I was in junior high. He was such a good kisser, and we're still close friends!

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

I think age is terribly overrated. You're okay as long as you don't grow up. By all means grow old, but don't mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.

Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.

I dainty little lass I wasn't. I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11.

Old age is second childhood.

The saddest sight these days is the image of hundreds of thousands of children kidnapped and lured into being child soldiers from the age of eight.