Quotes About Innocence

You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for - if you are honest - you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.

We lived a lovely, middle-class, suburban life in Philadelphia. And I really thought that the TV programs of the '50s, like 'Father Knows Best' and 'The Adventures Of Ozzie And Harriet' Nelson were documentaries filmed with hidden cameras in our neighborhood.

The Harm U Gave Little Infants Fucks Everyone

A baby can heal broken hearts.

Childrens' laughter is like medicine to sadness.

Oh, Tookie, I never wagered your lip nookie. In your eyes is the only place I wanna lookie. You've taught me 'bout loving and giving, I was a rookie. You're so pure and sweet. And now I'm hookie. On Tookieeeeee.

Como Adán en el paraíso

Sometimes I wish I were a little kid again, skinned knees are easier to fix than broken hearts.

A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.

The magic of first love Is our ignorance That it can never end.

Things in law tend to be black and white. But we all know that some people are a little bit guilty, while other people are guilty as hell

Present your religion to a little child, set him in the midst of those who profess it. If it frightens him, and freezes the smiles on his lips, then whatever sort of religion it is, it is not Christianity.

A child knows how to image before he know how to reason. He is born with a naturally vivid and fertile imagination but he has to learn how to use logic and reason.

How could people like these, without words to put to their emotions and passions, manage? They could, at best, only suffer dumbly. Their pains and humiliations would work themselves out in their characters alone: like evil spirits possessing a body, so that the body itself might appear innocent of what it did.

One is inclined to add only one emollient sentence: that whoever you are and whatever you have done, you will be reversed if you reach old age, for then you will look like a hard old walnut or like some beatified infant of boundless cynicism – the London ideas of innocence. You will look so sweet that you will be able to get away with anything.

Mikääs tuolla reppujen alla pihisee. – Poikahan se siellä.

Old Euclid drew a circle On a sand-beach long ago. He bounded and enclosed it With angles thus and so. His set of solemn greybeards Nodded and argued much Of arc and circumference, Diameter and such. A silent child stood by them From morning until noon Because they drew such charming Round pictures of the moon.

Sometimes, the only things that make you feel good are the same ones that worked when you were five. Yes, I slammed the door

A person gets old not when he reaches old age, but, when he stops being a child.

As a child, one has that magical capacity to move among the many eras of the earth; to see the land as an animal does; to experience the sky from the perspective of a flower or a bee; to feel the earth quiver and breathe beneath us; to know a hundred different smells of mud and listen unselfconciously to the soughing of the trees.

So many people try to grow up too fast, and it's not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!

Pure at heart: to be like a flower that blooms as gloriously, brilliantly in a secluded wild wood, not seen and praised.

Sève qui monte et fleur qui pousse, Ton enfance est une charmille : Laisse errer mes doigts dans la mousse Où le bouton de rose brille.

God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool.