Quotes About Innocence

Young children have so little life experience that they inevitably assume that what happens around and to them is the norm.

He had never been an artistic man. He had never been a fastidious man. He had got pleasure from smelling at dung-hills, from making water in his wife's garden, from snuffing up the sweet sweat of those he loved. He had no cruelty, no culture, no ambition, no breeding, no refinement, no curiosity, no conceit. He believed that there was a borderland of the miraculous round everything that existed and that everything that lived was holy.

Sometimes I wish I was a little child again, because bruised knees heals better than a broken heart.

I don't want to repeat my innocence, I want the pleasure of losing it again

Sometimes I wish I was a child again, broken knees are easier to fix than a broken heart.

You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around - and why his parents will always wave back.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

I love how you make me feel like a woman and a little girl all at the same time.

Girls are simply adorable :) that's all thank you.

I'd rather be a boy and play with paper planes, than be a man and play with a women's heart.

One of my favorite games when I was a kid was 'murder/suicide'. Dad would show us a photo and ask us: 'Is it a murder or a suicide ?'

I'm absolutely confident that everybody that's been put to death is two things: One, they're guilty of the crime charged, and, secondly, they had full access to our courts, both state and federal.

Killers aren't always assassins. Sometimes, they don't even have blood on their hands.

And no child deserved to die for defending her father, no matter who she was

Watching the summer close is like watching a good kid die for no apparent reason.

children are simply human beings who are allowed to do what everyone else really desires to do, as for instance, to fly kites, or when seriously wronged to emit prolonged screams for several minutes.

And what does every child believe every adult capable of doing? Of actually being able to bend the world to an inner desire, exactly what the child is busily practicing in his passionate play.

I seemed like a baby bird keeping its truly innocent animal lusts hidden under its wing. I was being tempted, not by the desire of possession, but simply by unadorned temptation itself.

Great changes in the destiny of mankind can be effected only in the minds of little children.

He had the face of an angel, but he f**ked like a devil.

Because they are children and for no other reason they have dignity and worth simply because they are.

The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite.

You continue to dream the wild dreams that you dream when you were young.