Quotes About Innocence

No child is racist. A child is born, and then they go through the educational system.

I wrote my first play when I was eight.

I'm kind of like Will Ferrell in the movie 'Elf.'

We get strength and encouragement from watching children.

I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.

I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe.

If you watch dogs play, they run and they fight, but they don't fight to hurt each other. They just play. And that's been me my entire life.

As a child I had a wild imagination; from the age of seven I'd sit and write epic stories.

I think that every man has a 16-year-old girl inside of him.

Esa es la gran virtud de la infancia: han nacido para reír, para dejar de lado las desgracias y tornar a sus juegos y fantasías

It implies also that there was a souring of "the earth's sweet being in the beginning." Long ago there occurred a besmirching of primordial innocence that has turned the history of human life and the practice of virtue into a project of restoration rather than one of joining ourselves to a universe that is still becoming more.

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

Question What is a child? A quiet between two bombardments.

Ich aber konnte überhaupt keine Schuld in dem Kind entdecken, seit es nicht mehr so wehrlos und stumm wie in den ersten Wochen war. Und damals war es wohl nicht unschuldig, sondern nur unfähig zu einer Äußerung gewesen, ein Bündel auf feinem Fleisch und Flachs, mit dünnem Atem, mit einem riesigen dumpfen Kopf, der wie ein Blitzableiter die Botschaften der Welt entschärfte.

I knew. I was not naive. I didn't want to know. I was naive.

Ma non è cosa oziosa dire che il cuore, l'animo e lo spirito di un bambino possono essere spezzati [...] L'amore può morire altrettanto facilmente, se non più amaramente, nel cuore di un bambino che in quello di un adulto.

My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin, Peter Gay Nazi Berlin

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.

No one responds to the newness of new things like children.

Children don't read to find their identity. They don't read to free themselves of guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion, or to get rid of alienation. They have no use for psychology. They detest sociology…. They still believe in good, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation and other such obsolete stuff.

My childhood had gone by without my knowing, and it seemed as if my heart had frozen.

Do not say only to what a child can feel, for do you not recall how powerfully you experienced emotion as a child?"..."We do not cast childhood off like the skin of a snake. It remains within us, even as we grow. It is the heart and core of us

So began their love, the boy happy and amazed, she happy and not surprised at all (nothing happens by chance to girls). It was the love so long awaited by Cosimo and which had now inexplicably arrived, and so lovely that he could not imagine how he had even thought it lovely before. And the thing newest to him was that it was so simple, and the boy at that moment thought it must be like that always.

eyes that, like those of children, look at an eternal present without forgiveness.