Quotes About Innocence

You mean Piglet. The little fellow with the excited ears. That's Piglet.

Do go and see, Owl. Because Pooh hasn't got very much brain, and he might do something silly, and I do love him so, Owl. Do you see, Owl?

Christopher Robin, you must shoot the balloon with your gun.

HIPY PAPY BTHUTHDTH THUTHDA BTHUTHDY. Pooh

There, just inside the gates, was Mary. He was only six, but even then he knew that never would he see again anything so beautiful. She was five; but there was something in her manner of holding herself and the imperious tilt of her head which made her seem almost five-and-a-half. [From John Penquarto A Tale of Literary Life in London

Once upon a time, a very long time ago now, about last Friday, Winnie-the-Pooh lived in a forest all by himself...

The Grizzly Bear is huge and wild; He has devoured the infant child. The infant child is not aware It has been eaten by a bear." "Infant Innocence

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

Some kids would be much better off without the added confusion of an adult point of view. It destroys the purity of their world.

In retrospect, though many were guilty, none was innocent.

Small boys often produce their own plays; but usually the parts are not written out. They hardly need to be, for the main line of each character is always "Stick 'em up!" In these plays the curtain is always rung down on a set of corpses, for small boys are by nature through and uncompromising.

On our way home we throw the apples, the biscuits, the chocolate and the coins in the tall grass by the roadside. It is impossible to throw away the stroking on our hair

Posso persino dire d'aver avuto un'infanzia felice perché non sapevo che esistessero altre infanzie.

Virginity is like a balloon. One prick and it's all gone.

I had an amazing childhood.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing

But for a four-year-old, everything is sacred and ordinary.

By the time they return to the lodge in the late afternoon, they've seen so many white men—sa'ippus—and even white women, that Baby Mol no longer wants to touch them to see if the color comes off.

I used to pretend a lot. I'm very good at it,

crossed-legged with my friend named Echo who taught me how to amplify the strange sound the frogs made by cupping my ears. I need to hold this close within me, when today's news is full of dead children, their faces opening their mouths for air that will not come. Once I was a child too and my friend and I sat for maybe an hour, eyes adjusting to the night sky, cupping and uncapping our ears to hear the song the tenderest animals made.

Here for example the beautiful silver mirror of a river swells, a boy falls in, the water ripples sweetly around his locks, he sinks - and after a short while the silver mirror swells as before.

Almost two years had passed once again since his father's death. Hugo remained in the city, pure and strong as a virgin; for the man who harbours a god in his breast will remain untouched by the baseness which the world holds in store.

the students with their clear skin and shining eyes and inviting innocence, like a blank surface one wishes to scribble obscenities on.