Quotes About Innocence

As a fact it was, in my mind, at one and the same time absolutely true and obviously untrue, and perhaps only children are able to accommodate double-faced facts like these.

He smiles shyly at Leah. Aged ten he had a smile! Nathan Bogle: the very definition of desire for girls who had previously only felt that way about certain fragrant erasers. A smile to destroy the resolve of even the strictest teachers, other people's parents. Now she sees ten-year-olds and cannot believe they have inside them what she had inside her at the same age.

Blimey, thought Kelvin, what an eye-to-face ratio. When you want to say something delicate, you don't want that eye-to-face ration staring up at you. Big eyes, like a child's or a baby seal's; the physiognomy of innocence--looking at Archie Jones is like looking at something that expects to be clubbed round the head any second.

I felt like some old diary she'd found in a drawer: a reminder of a more innocent and foolish time in her life.

a sort of child, someone to be treated with kid gloves and presented with reality by degrees.

Clarence, look see! It de young prince in white. 'Im come to play domino. I jus' look in his eye and I and I knew 'im play domino. 'Im an hexpert.

Somebody wanted her to play. Somebody thought it natural for her to play.

Ah was wid dem white chillun so much till Ah didn't know Ah wuzn't white till Ah was round six years old.

I wish we could get back to those days, just let kids go and play and enjoy themselves on the streets instead of at academies too young.

Pooh is able to accomplish what he does because he is simpleminded.

Did you ever hear of a kid playing accountant - even if they wanted to be one?

I adore kids. I enjoy everything that they bring to the party. They just say what they think.

When you're six years old, you don't look at things the way an adult looks at things.

My ambition when I was four years old was to be married.

Kids can amuse themselves with almost anything.

Wes Anderson's films, 6-year-olds are crazy about them.

If you saw me in 'The King and I,' I had that angelic, virginal face.

Animation films are about entertainment and about fun for the whole family, and if you went too far down a dark path, it's not what people, I think, expect from a great animated film.

Anime is something I loved to watch as a kid.

When I was about 7, I fancied Anna Chlumsky; the girl from 'My Girl.'

Tears came into Eugene's eyes. He was still under the spell of youthful beliefs, he had just left home, pure and sacred feelings had been stirred within him, and this was his first day on the battlefield of civilization in Paris. Genuine feeling is so infectious that for a moment the three looked at each other in silence.

Mavi de, bütün çe?itleriyle, göklerden al?nm??t?r, beyazla iyi ba?da??r. Bunlar?n ikisi de birer safl?k de?il midir?

La santa criatura ignoraba que donde empieza la ambición cesan los sentimientos ingenuos.

Las almas grandes están siempre dispuestas a hacer de una desgracia una virtud. Existe además un atractivo irresistible en obstinarse en hacer un bien en aquello en lo que los demás ven un motivo de reproche: la inocencia tiene el atractivo propio del vicio.