Quotes About Innocence

No one keeps a secret so well as a child

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.

There is one habit one should not grow out of -that is Being A Child at Heart .

Beauty is the flower of chastity.

The world amazed me, in that I saw it as I had when I was a child. I had forgotten the beauty and the magic and the knowingness of it and me.

It's essential that a part of you not grow up. Childhood wonder gives us our spark and beauty.

She's got the kind of ethereal, unselfconscious beauty some young girls possess that breaks your heart. Or theirs.

I love the whirling of the dervishes. I love the beauty of rare innocence. You don't need no crystal ball, Don't fall for a magic wand. We humans got it all, we perform the miracles.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed.

Real beauty is when you're centered, when our mind is with the truth. That is how every baby is beautiful because they are centered.

... what is there over which the incomparable beauty of childhood would not triumph?

A five-year old is in a pretty good position to assess who is beautiful and who is not. Removed from the confusions of sexuality, he or she can judge a face as a face.

the late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood ...

No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk.

When I was 5 years old, my best friends were Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen because we lived across the street from each other.

I sometimes have birthday parties for the kids in my neighborhood and then pretend to suggest that I am going to molest them to the parents. It's a hilarious prank even though I am not a paedophile.

Having a birthday cake squashed into your face by young kids? Delicious. I always don a Santa suit at Christmas. Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.

I grew up on the golden age of children's TV.

When I was four, I asked my mother for a valet for my birthday.

No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.

Childhood is frequently a solemn business for those inside it.

I don't care whether the person is guilty or not guilty. It's not my business to establish guilt or innocence. It's a court of law that does that and a jury does that, but not me.