Quotes About Innocence

What hope is there for innocence if it is not recognized?

That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.

But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way

You lost your innocence when you grew up, all right, everyone knew that, but did you have to lose your hope, as well?

You two are children almost grown. Your hearts have not hardened to the realities of the world. Your dreams have not fallen through your fingers. You still know hope.

The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child.

Every child comes into this world as a gift to humanity.

I wanted to discuss the suffering of humanity in general, but perhaps we'd better confine ourselves to the sufferings of children.

Just because you are innocent does not mean that others cannot harm you. History teaches us that lesson.

When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up.

When I was a boy, I laid in my twin-sized bed and wondered where my brother was.

I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.

To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.

It's hard to think of yourself as a loser at 2 years old.

I find you can often find humor just by turning something upside-down. Like a... small child.

Ah, babies! They're more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts.

What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wife.

When I was a kid, I went to the store and asked the guy, Do you have any toy train schedules?

Kids. You gotta love them. I adore children. A little salt, a squeeze of lemon--perfect.

I was a hip kid. When I saw Bambi it was the midnight show.

There's nothing more toxic or deadly than a human child. A single touch could kill you.

I wondered about my inner child. In fact, I was troubled. Did I even have an inner child, I asked myself, given that, in essence, I'd just been born?

When I was a wee little kid, " remarked Roic, watching over their shoulders, "there was a time I thought that any skinny old man I saw was my grandfather. It was pretty confusing.

Anybody who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.