Quotes About Innocence

The opposite of innocence is not sin. Dearly beloved, the opposite of innocence is strength.

For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better.

The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the stain of lies. For one moment we are bot failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better.

For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better. Then

I'm clutching my favorite record, More of the Monkees. I listened to that album incessantly, thinking that Davy Jones might "forget that girl" and find the kindergarten siren of his dreams. I look like a five-year-old mod with dark circles under her eyes.

But then is not life itself a fairy-tale which we lose the power of apprehending as we grow? No matter.

How sad if we pass through life and never see it with the eyes of a child.

I am six years old and instead of celebrating with birthday cakes, I chew on a piece of charcoal.

Mainly, I thought of Barney Fife as a kid. You can always look into the faces of kids and see what they're thinking, if they're happy or sad. That's what I tried to do with Barney.

He thought how sad it was to be an Animal who had never had a bunch of violets picked for him.

I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.

Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways - in science, in politics, in every bold intention.

Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings.

There is nothing that makes me happier than making a child smile.

Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone.

Child of the pure unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet, and I and thou Are half a life asunder, Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy-tale.

Always smile back at little children. To ignore them is to destroy their belief that the world is good.

To me nothing in the world is as precious as a genuine smile, especially from a child.

She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.

I speak for those children who cannot speak for themselves, children who have absolutely nothing but their courage and their smiles, their wits and their dreams.

But, my God, it's so beautiful when the boy smiles

Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play.

Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile.