Quotes About Innocence

Per questo ho detto che Marcellino pane e vino è il cinema della morale cattolica. Infatti, Marcellino è tutto negli occhi.

These children are so stupid; they think they are the first to discover the world.

Is it a crime to want to be good? she cried

All my life I've been harassed by questions: Why is something this way and not another? How do you account for that? This rage to understand, to fill in the blanks, only makes life more banal. If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence.

All my life I've been harassed by questions: Why is something this way and not another? How do you account for that? This rage to understand, to fill in the blanks, only makes life more banal. If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence.

Pobre de aquel, que no hizo de su infancia Una leyenda.

La inocencia también es sagrada. La inocencia nos absuelve de nuestros errores.

On our garden walks Mama always used to tell me, 'Angels live in gardens, Darcy.' 'Where?' I would ask, looking around for the white-winged beings I saw drawn on my Sunday school papers. 'Close your eyes and breathe deep.' 'All is smell is flowers, Mama,' I would say. 'Not so. That's the breath of the angels. And the stirrings you hear in the leaves are their wings brushing past.

Ieri ho domandato ad un bambino di cinque anni chi fosse Gesù. Sapete cos'ha risposto? Una statua.

Yesterday I asked a five-year-old child who Jesus was. You know what he replied? A statue.

Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water lilies, woodchucks, bats, bees, butterflies, various animals to pet, hayfields, pine-cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets; and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of education.

O menininho brinca no tapete enquanto nós adultos rimos contando coisas da infância do pai dele e dos tios. Ele ergue o rosto e indaga: — Do que vocês estão falando? — Da infância — responde alguém. — Infância é legal? — Muito. — A gente não pode viajar pra lá? Era o que estávamos fazendo

But I think her feelings about our mother were a heavy burden in her life, at least when they were together. When our mother was far away, maybe she could forget her. Our mother was always stepping on her to get up higher, always needing to be right, always needing to be better than her, and than all of us, most of the time. The terrible innocence of our mother, too, as she did that. She had no idea, most of the time.

Children and fools speak true.

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

The child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal.

"In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child," says good old Santa Claus; and if he had his way the children would all be beautiful, for all would be happy.

what is an imaginary friend? are there also imaginary enemies?

How fair, to sinless Adam, Eden smiled! But sin brought tears, and Eden was wild!

It is ever the lot of children to accept their circumstances as universal, and their particularities as general.

Almost nothing lives here anymore, except where we plant it? No. No, no, no. We don't know any of that. We have tea parties with our teddies. We go sledding. We enjoy being young. We take what's coming to us. That's our way.

Ora o desenho animado, si nos convence e nos ilumina tanto, deve ser também porque ele nos reverte a esse infantilismo profundo e inamovível que persevera em nós, apesar de toda a nossa adulta materialidade. Ele arromba o limite existencial das coisas e nos coloca num mundo de milagre. Num mundo fantasmagórico, mais exatamente que fantasmal.

Vuelve a ser el Niño inocente de Dios que eres. Estate abierto a los milagros.

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.