Quotes About Innocence

God, children know something they can't tell; they like Red Riding Hood and the wolf in bed!

Nothing in the world is more sinister than a child's coffin.

Dejen que vengan a mí los niños, y no se lo estorben porque de los que se asemejan a ellos es el reino de Dios.

Babies are such a nice way to start people.

Mainly, I thought of Barney 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.

When he plays on snow, he doesn't leave any footprints.

Attaining the goal of a full, happy life, ripe with experiences well-used, means that each of us will become a paradox—free, yet constrained by necessity; shrewd, yet innocent; open to others, yet self-reliant; strong, yet able to yield; centered on the highest values, yet able to accept imperfection; realistic about the suffering existence imposes on us, yet full of gratitude for life as it is.

Is there a child in the world who does not believe in magic?

A woman stood in front of her with the peculiar poise that comes before the discovery of age and after the loss of innocence.

We each begin in innocence. We all become guilty.

There is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and useful for life in later years than some good memory, especially a memory connected with childhood, with home.

The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.

Childhood is not a state which only applies to the first phase of our lives in the biological sense. Rather it is a basic condition which is always appropriate to a life that is lived aright.

A child is a life that has not gone too far away from the Creator. Know a child to know life.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

The innocent is the person who explains nothing

So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!

The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be.

Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.

My nephew's always crying. I'm like, 'Dude, why are you crying? Your life is great. All you do is eat apple sauce and take dumps. That's your day.

When will we learn that childhood is in a great sense not simply a preparation for adult life but a thing unique and complete in itself—a masterpiece of God.

If I can look at a 6-year-old and learn from him, that's life. That's God for me, that's inspiring.

Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us do.

The artist has to look at life as he did when he was a child. If he loses that faculty, he cannot express himself in an original, that is, a personal way.