Quotes About Innocence

I know when I was a kid I ate a beetle. I ate a beetle because I thought it was licorice.

David Sedaris wrote in one of his books that people like to make children into little grown-ups, which to him is about as funny as a dog in sunglasses.

Comedy, your funny bone, is formed in childhood.

I like it when very little children think for themselves, because they do not have access to car keys or credit cards or crack pipes, but they have some really funny lines.

A child of five could understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

It's sick and twisted and violent. Other than that it is totally G rated.

Loretta started belting out a song: "Row, row, row your boat, sitting in a tree! K-I-S-S-I-N-G !

There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them.

The end of the trial and the 'not guilty' verdicts on all counts, clearing Michael of all charges, mean that he can now concentrate on the future and his art.

There is a child in all of us, a person who believes in a glorious future.

Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.

When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.

My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity.

When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.

Why would anyone steal a shopping cart? It's like stealing a two-year-old.

A dirty mind is a terrible thing to waste.

Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?

Where children are, there is the golden age.

I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways.

Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.

Whatever good there is in small boys is usually based upon their admiration for girls of their own age.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.

I'm as pure as the driven slush.