Quotes About Innocence

He didn't worry much about the illegal killings of humans, such as those killings so artfully and cruelly achieved by his clients.

plan. You've got to explain to the judge or whoever that this is all a mistake. I'm

It wasn't a romance; they were too young for that. Theo did not know of a single thirteen-year-old boy in his class who admitted to having a girlfriend.

Hop fell to his knees and pleaded, "Please, Mista Banning. I ain't done nothin'. I got kids, Mista Banning.

Kids are perfect people till grownups get their hands on them.

There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep.

Jenny decided that all manifestations of her innocence were futile and appeared defensive.

Miss O'Hara certainly had to cast her pearls before a dismal lot of swine, who looked like the type of vague, drawn old men who molested children at matinees.

I was in the Pre-School Play section, but we never played like the name said. We had to listen to stories some old woman read to us out of a grownup book that we didn't understand.

Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men.

She missed -- without knowing what she missed-- paints and crayons

It is education that grows flowers in innocent minds to reveal beauty.

There is one art, no more, no less, to do all things with artlessness.

Seeing the world through the eyes of a child is the purest joy that anyone can experience.

Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience

It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood.

You can't understand it until you experience the simple joy of the first time your son points at a seagull and says 'Duck!'

One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

I hadn't been free from adult responsibilities since I was 12, and I needed to experience that. I really needed to just be a kid again.

An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.

I don't think anything is as magical as a fairy tale experience by a child.

I think a lot of people also have kids to reclaim th? innocence and experience it over again. I think it's about staying curious and not losing the sense of wonder.

Experience which destroys innocence also leads one back to it.