Quotes About Innocence

She'd never believed in God, except when she heard children singing.

All babies had that same wise look, as if they'd just come from another realm where they'd learned some beautiful truth they couldn't share.

We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves. Even if my philosophy does not extend to discovering anything new, it does nevertheless possess the courage to regard as questionable what has long been thought true.

Nobody's born rotten. You just don't have bad kids. It's not true. There is no such thing. But we can make them bad.

Shawty badder than a three year old.

Thank God kids never mean well

Soon there'll be nothing left to the law but acronyms, DNA swabs, and every man's right to claim an exoneration the moment after he's convicted

Children's laughter is the music of heaven.

Children delight in folk-tale and fairy lore, but the very little child loves best the story which mirrors the familiar. And it is for him, and for the mother who is striving in this age of profusion to guard the innate simplicity of her child's nature, that I have written my little stories.

Childhood is really age-less. It's just a matter of how much time you can invest in it.

Live innocently; God is here.

No eleven-year-old has any real grasp of death. He doesn't have any real concept of other people--that they feel pain, even that they exist. And his own adult future isn't real to him, either. Makes it that much easier to throw away.

We shared a sympathetic look, mutually marveling that kids who commit grown-up crimes still have their little-boy sweet tooth.

You can call it innocence or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: She assumed that everyone else was just like her. Evidence to the contrary found nowhere to lodge, like a book on chaos theory in a library that didn't have a physics section.

Is it called naiveté when you're naïve in purpose?

Infants have great intuition, because intuition's about all they've got.

You can call it innocence or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: She assumed that everyone else was just like her. Evidence to the contrary found nowhere to lodge, like a book on chaos theory in a library that didn't have a physics section.

You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.

Behind innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and misdirected impulse; clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill the unventilated mind.

Knowledge is always worth more than innocence. Or ignorance.

how accepting children can be of the oddest scenarios. But still, seeing it now, in black and white, it really is quite shocking.

Beatrix, do you know what happens to girls who ask such naughty questions?" "They're ravished in haylofts?" she inquired hopefully.

Babies were dangerous . . . they made you fall in love before you knew what was happening.

Here's your hat, and by the way, I'm a virgin