Quotes About Childish Innocence

#1. Yet for all the childish innocence of its bizarre glamor, Venice developed an atmosphere, or became the outpost of a sinister deep-rooted power ... It is a place of dreams, not only the tinseled ones ...

Fritz Leiber

#2. Something in me died at Peleliu. Perhaps it was the childish innocence that accepted as faith the claim that Man is basically good. Possibly I lost faith that politicians in high places, who do not have to endure war's savagery, will ever stop blundering and sending others to endure it.

Eugene B. Sledge

#3. First of all, the corpse road is a promise, not a guarantee,

Maggie Stiefvater

#4. Your circumstances don't dictate your future ... Your circumstances don't limit you.

Richard Sherman

#5. We're children. We're supposed to be childish.

George R R Martin

#6. Nothing is more real than the masks we make to show each other who we are.

Christopher Barzak

#7. I'm more of a homebody type. I don't want to look like I want to be in the public eye. I didn't become an actress to be famous.

Sarah Hyland

#8. Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.

John Lydon

#9. She pulls me toward her, tells me, "You're sweet, you know that?" I crack a smile. Life will not tear us apart this
time. Our hearts will see to it.

Pete Wentz

#10. Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.

T.H. White

#11. We seem to have lost our contact with the primordial: the idea of - call it divine revelation as opposed to something that's learned by the human intellect - something that, if you lay yourself completely open, and you just open your heart completely, something will actually come into it.

John Tavener

#12. Childish fantasy, like the sheath over the bud, not only protects but curbs the terrible budding spirit, protects not only innocence from the world, but the world from the power of innocence.

Elizabeth Bowen

#13. The really pure in heart know nothing of what goes on around them each day, each night; never realize what poisonous weeds spring up beneath their childish feet.

Francois Mauriac

#14. Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#15. Like the Bible says. A child should be leader of them all, and to be led by that kind of innocence. Didnt Jesus say bring on the children? Be like the children. Not childish, but child-like. That kind of innocence.

Michael Jackson

#16. Mr. Briggs's chemistry class

Jessica Brody

#17. Some travelers collect souvenirs, postcards, or bumper stickers; I bring home a pencil from the various places I visit.

Michael Dirda