Quotes About Innocence

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

John Denver I listened to when I was in elementary school.

Every child must have a childhood they deserve. But unfortunately, millions of children are deprived childhood and their dreams crushed under the burden of poverty.

I'm kind of a simple guy. The best way you can describe it is, I'm the same person I was when I was a kid. Everyone's like, 'Of course you are,' but I'm like, 'No, seriously.' I liked 'ThunderCats' when I was a kid; I call myself Thundercat now.

But the problem is that you cannot just admit to something you haven't done; you need to deliver the details, which you can't when you haven't done anything. It's not just, Yes, I did!' No, it doesn't work that way: you have to make up a complete story that makes sense to the dumbest dummies.

After my conviction, I was devastated. I had never believed that I would be convicted.

The vividness of children is easier to see when they're completely left to their own devices.

I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role.

I learned how to change a cloth diaper on a raccoon. I was maybe 8 or 9.

I wrote my first song when I was about eight. It was about putting a diaper on a chicken!

When I was a kid, I honestly never thought about race. I didn't see differences.

I wanted to be a tap dancer when I was very young.

All of my children's books are attempts to tap into what I believe to be children's, and to some extent human beings', fantasies.

If I see a roll of Bubble Tape, a bag of Haribo Gold-Bears or a pouch of green-apple Big League Chew, I'm eleven again.

I'm not supposed to say it, but I was not guilty of any crime. I became a target because I was a strong and a rich woman who had been very successful.

Tarzan is such a great character in that he's very innocent and wide-eyed about the world, yet he's so powerful and capable. It's fun to play those qualities simultaneously in the same person.

There's a childlike quality to Tarzan that's quite beautiful and wonderful, but there's also an intelligence and fierceness that's quite powerful as well.

I've been playing Tarzan and Jane since I was a kid.

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

I don't drink tea or coffee. I'm like a child: I like fruit juices and sodas and creamy hot chocolate.

We used to do sock puppet shows for my auntie back in the day. Me and my friends would do accents of Englishmen, and we would sip tea and act like we were rich in front of the family, and they thought it was just hilarious, the level of perception that we had about things that we'd never experienced.

Every kid likes to be read to, or just even have an adult play with them, no matter if it's little girls with a tea party or boys playing in the dirt, it's all part of being a kid. It's something we all went through.

I always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty.

A very bland eleven-year-old, playing computer games. I went to a local primary school but I wasn't anything special or anything insanely interesting. I didn't have a crazy personality. I was somewhat book smart, but I wasn't hanging off the teacher, nor was I messing up in class. I wasn't doing much to disrupt anything. I was just there, existing.