Quotes About Innocence

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

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

Babies are such a nice way to start people

Women have a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.

Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly, your wholeness when you are broken, your innocence when you feel guilty, and your purpose when you are confused...

If only she could be so oblivious again, to feel such love without knowing it, mistaking it for laughter.

Ich erinnerte mich an gewisse Tage meiner Kindheit ohne Trauer und Wehmut, ja selbst ohne Sympathie. Das kleine Mädchen von damals war tot, erwürgt und verscharrt von großen geschickten Händen. Es war nicht Schade darum, denn es hatte sich kaum gewehrt, und um Dinge und Menschen, die sich nicht wehren, braucht man nicht zu trauern.

Children cannot help how they are born, they had no choice in it. Choosing to be a fool, though . . .

An idyllic childhood is probably illusion.

You get the feeling that childhood does not last as long as it used to. Innocence gets harder to hold on to as the world gets older, as it accumulates more experience, more mileage and more blood on the tracks.

A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.

Only now have you lived long enough to know the child that you shall always remain.

This new subterfuge is, of course, calculated to deceive the simple and innocent into thinking that the matter is settled.

He who sleeps does not sin.

I know a beautiful garden, where there are a great many children in fine little coats, and they go under the trees and gather beautiful apples and pears, cherries and plums; they sing and run about and are as happy as they can be. Sometimes they ride on nice little ponies, with golden bridles and silver saddles. I asked the man whose garden it is, "What little children are these?" And he told me, "They are little children who love to pray and learn and are good.

How they had the nerve to sanction other countries about their penal laws when they treated their own as guilty before there was even a trial, he did not know. Innocent till proven guilty?

When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child.' – 1 Corinthians 13:11 'The children of perdition are oft'times made instruments even of the greatest work.' – Ben Jonson, 1637-1673

As for you, be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.

The childhood .. is my favourite scene! Life is going so fast!

All the earth is made anew-- Far the false, and fair the true-- Where a little life begins, Free of sorrow, free of sins, And Baby comes.

Sally said with wide-eyed innocence, "I think you're pretty too, Pa." Clay seemed taken aback for a moment, then he smiled down at Sally and chucked her under the chin with his gloved fist. "Well, thank you darlin'. I reckon that's about the sweetest thing anyone's ever said to me.

Im sure it was the precociousness and an idealistic zest for life's experiences hiding behind a transparent mask of innocence that captured me!

The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.