Quotes About Innocence

The young, in their innocence, are often wise and capable of teaching the old.

was too young to know if my heart misbehaved itself in any way

Aku boleh saja dianggap tukang bercinta, tetapi aku bukanlah pembunuh seorang gadis remaja.

Stuart calls me the Milkybar Kid.

Why should she try to do these things? What motivates a child to grow?

Actually even the worst childhood is always enchanted, how awful.

things are very delicate. People tread upon them with too many human feet, with too many sentiments. Only the delicacy of innocence or only the delicacy of the initiate senses its almost nonexistent taste. Before, I needed seasoning for everything, and in that way I skipped over the thing and tasted the taste of the seasoning.

Esa muchacha no sabía que ella era lo que era, tal como un cachorro no sabe que es cachorro. Por eso no se sentía infeliz. Lo único que quería era vivir. No sabía para qué, no se lo preguntaba. Quién sabe, tal vez encontraba que había una ínfima gloria en vivir. Pensaba que una persona está obligada a ser feliz. De modo que lo era.

There I was open-mouthed and offended and withdrawn—faced with the dusty being looking back at me. Take what I saw: because what I was seeing with an embarrassment so painful and so frightened and so innocent, what I was seeing was life looking back at me.

Las personas depositan la idea del pecado en el sexo. Pero es muy inocente e infantil ese pecado. El infierno mismo es el del amor.

Cuando descubrí lo que era coger le pregunté a mi madre, con la sorpresa, la inocencia y el espanto de la infancia, si eso que me habían dicho mis amigas era cierto, si de verdad las mujeres debían dejar que los hombres «metieran su pito» dentro de una. Mi madre me miró, se tomó un instante y luego dijo: «No lo pienses así, es como cuando uno tiene hambre y come, o tiene sed y toma agua». No mencionó el amor. Ni siquiera los hijos por venir.

If you really want to know about the future, don't ask a technologist, a scientist, a physicist. No! Don't ask somebody who's writing code. No, if you want to know what society's going to be like in 20 years, ask a kindergarten teacher.

Si realmente quieren saber sobre el futuro, no le pregunten a un técnico, a un científico o a un físico. ¡No! No le pregunten a quien escriba en código. No, si quieren saber cómo va a ser la sociedad en 20 años, pregúntenle a la maestra de un jardín de niños.

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.

the young daughter of Sejanus is taken away to be killed. "What have I done?" Tacitus has her say. "Where are you taking me? I won't do it again.

It's always the ones who wring their hands demanding that someone defend, protect or educate the children, who are the most ruthless murderers of childhood.

Youth is not the age to seduce, it's the age to be seduced.

No, Lewis. Unlike you, I've lived a very sheltered life. I have tried to get invited along to one of these porno-parties, but everybody seems to think I'm above such things.

They were like two poor little leaves in a storm which bore death and annihilation not only to the heads of individuals, but to whole towns and entire tribes. What hand could snatch it and save two small, defenseless children?

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

History is a child building a sandcastle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.

Time is a child playing with droughts. The lordship is to the child.

Eternity is like a child playing at draughts; the kingdom belongs to a child.

I did grow up next door to Steve McQueen, who was a very famous movie star at the time, but as a kid it didn't impress me. We always had great fun with him. He would take us out on Sundays on his motorcycles, riding around in the desert he was like a second father.