Quotes About Innocence

I get so much energy to work harder when I meet and greet younger kids because they like me with such innocent hearts.

I like to work with children because their way of reacting to the world is simple, and they are innocent.

I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy.

In some respects, I was almost a country boy. I ran around in streams and rivers and all that sort of thing.

It was a normal childhood, like the childhoods of all children my age: going to school, playing in the street with friends, spending time at home with my family.

I remember the Silver Jubilee clearly because we had a fancy dress street party in Sheffield. I dressed up as a Japanese girl with a too-big red kimono - cultural appropriation hadn't been invented in 1977. I was six.

We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!

We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did.

I'm still a kid. I stretched it out.

Well, again working strictly to the film, where you had this lovely, lovely land of brightness and color. And everybody is smiling and happy and butterflies flitting around and it was that kind of image that, it was like a dream world, really.

I think the thing that strikes you when you come back to 'The Little Mermaid' after all of these years is the simplicity and innocence. That's in the look of it, and that's in the sound of it.

I still feel like the 10-year-old dancing in front of her mirror, mostly to 'No Strings Attached.'

I was into the 'Dennis The Menace' comic strip long before I got into music, and it still makes me chuckle.

The first skincare product I ever got was nose strips. I was 8 years old, and I was like, 'I want to feel like a grown-up.'

Children often have a much stronger concept of morality than adults.

I really believe strongly that kids should be spared the runoff of their parents' lives and problems.

From taking photographs of George and Charlotte, I have been struck by the wonderful lack of self-consciousness that you see in photographs of children, without the self-awareness that adults generally feel.

Seeing how the kids react to you is pretty awesome. Not necessarily that they're star struck, but they're shy. They're kids. They don't know how to act to a new person.

I find that when I write for children, I am more hopeful, less cynical. I don't use different words or a different sentence structure. I just hope more.

I had a mundane, happy childhood, without much struggle.

I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I just have to go right down to the common denominator, find the simplest way that you can look at an object or a problem, and not muck it up with all of the stuff that adults do and over-analyze.

I had been struggling with how to create a child-like protagonist's voice without making it sound as though I was 'dumbing down' to the character. They are able to see events, people and places with an intensity and open mindedness that adults lack.

We are a nation with a powerful investment in the idea of our own fundamental innocence. Our can-do optimism and ingenuity are based on the faith that we are a decent, open, and generous people. This is our identity.

I've always been optimistic. And I have a feeling that it happened because of going to all those movies with my grandmother in the '40s because there was no cynicism.