Quotes About Innocence

within the core of each of us is the child we once were. This child constitutes the foundation of what we have become, who we are, and what we will be.

Hanni, I'm going to have to watch you carefully. You may break a lot of hearts in London." "What am I to break?" she asked with that lovely innocent smile. "Hearts. Lots of Englishmen will fall in love with you." "I hope so," she said. "I'm gonna be hot sexy dame. You can give me tips.

Cuáles son los cachorros más seguros? …Los candaditos.

Veintisiete años con más mundo que el que descubrió Colón, color sonrosado, ojos de más preguntas y respuestas que el catecismo, nariz de escribano por lo picaresca, labios retozones, y una tabla de pecho como para asirse de ella un náufrago, tal era en compendio la muchacha.

De pronto aparece, porque esas son las reglas del juego, una aguja que revienta la burbuja que se ha estado cuidando como una inocencia: y ya, fin de la tregua.

que nadie sepa que el niño interior no es la inocencia que guardamos como un cofre sino la orfandad que negamos como un crimen.

I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things.

A parent always tries to protect his child's world from the harsh reality of adulthood. - Busch

Bronwen came over plenty of Saturdays after that, but I was always shy of her. I think I must have fallen in love with Bronwen even then and I must have been in love with her all my life since. It is silly to think a child could fall in love. If you think about it like that, mind. But I am the child that was, and nobody knows how I feel, except only me. And I think I fell in love with Bronwen that Saturday on the Hill. Still, that is past.

Wyn we called her from the start, see. Nothing else to be done with a girl like that. Brown eyes she had, big, with eyelashes that touched her brows, and a smile in her voice, and looking to Davy as to a brother of God.

I wish I were a boy again-unquestioning, with no need to analyze the moment.

Non c'è da stupirsi che i bambini sono felici. Per loro la vita è facile. Un po' di fame un po', un po' di freddo, un po' di paura del buio. Tutto qui. Perché affannarsi tanto a crescere? La vita diventa troppo complicata.

The world had become something no schoolchild should be allowed to discover.

Je ne fais aucun mal en restant ici. I do no harm by remaining here.

Sih Hsuin gasps. "Look the color!" The color of greed, envy, freshness, growth, innocence. Green, green, green, green, and green.

But the death machine had only sampled a vast new source of raw material: the civilians behind the lines. It had not yet evolved equipment efficient to process them, only big guns and clumsy biplane bombers. It had not yet evolved the necessary rationale that old people and women and children are combatants equally with armed and uniformed young men. That is why, despite its sickening squalor and brutality, the Great War looks so innocent to modern eyes.

collected minerals and at ten years of age wrote poems but still played with blocks.

Our starting place was always original goodness,10 not original sin. This

Once we begin to learn the contemplative mind, we realize it is almost the natural way of seeing—and we have unlearned it! It is quite natural, as we see in children before the age of six or seven when they start judging and analyzing and distinguishing things one from another.

Americans prefer to isolate villains who despoil a preexisting innocence, rather than admit that there might not have been any innocence there in the first place.

He looked like those paintings of baby angels - what do you call them, hubbubs? No cherubs. That's it. He looked like a cherub who'd turned middle-aged in a trailer park.

Kids are baby goats. They're cute and they have redeeming social value. You are definitely not kids.

Maybe it's okay to still be a kid every once in a while.

Lovely. Imprisoned in a nursery school dungeon.