Quotes About Children's Innocence

#1. When children's innocence is used as a tactic to suppress queer adults, readers need to resist, not children, but those who conscript children to fight their own ideological agendas.

Tison Pugh

#2. 'Good Times' is a story about the loss of innocence, how adults are responsible for their actions but children aren't.

Lynda Barry

#3. The poet believed that 'Beauty' first entered the world not at its creation, nor with the first garden, the first sunrise, the birth of the first man and woman and their first sexual act. The poet believed that 'Beauty' entered the world the day the first child blushed.

Roman Payne

#4. I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#5. Parents don't want their children to lose that purity and innocence of childhood. We want to bottle that and hold onto that, but it's impossible.

Pete Docter

#6. In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

Michael Jackson

#7. I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.

Donna Tartt

#8. A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder and innocence as children who are kept away from the city's underbelly.

Heather O'Neill

#9. Children are the most reasonable about discipline. When they tell you not to do something, it's always because they know why.

Criss Jami

#10. There is an earned innocence, I believe, which is as much to be honored as the innocence of children.

Marilynne Robinson

#11. We try to bring up our children so that they are protected from the world's evils, only to find we've raised a pack of innocents who seem to be about to stumble into them at every turn just from sheer stupidity!

Samuel R. Delany

#12. Children, Never look Back! and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.

Milan Kundera

#13. I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.

Orson Scott Card

#14. The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.

Jim Henson

#15. Young children see the innocence of life, while some adults live in innocence.

Jan Jansen

#16. Innocence of eye has a quality of its own. It means to see as a child sees, with freshness and acknowledgment of the wonder; it also means to see as an adult sees who has gone full circle and once again sees as a child - with freshness and an even deeper sense of wonder.

Minor White

#17. In the inner place where true artists create there exists a pure child.

Lawren Harris

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

George R R Martin

#19. All children blackmail their parents with their innocence.

Joanne Greenberg

#20. To express nostalgia for a childhood we no longer share is to deny the actual significance and humanity of children.

Perry Nodelman

#21. The whole point about childhood," Domenica went on, "is that it affords us a brief moment of innocence and protection from the pressures of the world. Parents who push their children too hard intrude on that little bit of space.

Alexander McCall Smith

#22. This is not politics ... it's to protect the innocence of children.

Bob Dole

#23. What I liked about it is in the world of children, there are very, very different rules and a kind of naivete and innocence and sweetness that's been beautifully captured, I think, by this film as you can even see [gesturing toward the film's poster on display nearby] from this gorgeous artwork.

Russell Brand

#24. Many children fly like birds, guess other people's dreams, and speak with ghosts, but ... they all outgrow it when they lose their innocence.

Isabel Allende

#25. When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they don't really know what they mean.

William Faulkner

#26. It is difficult to frighten those who are easily astonished; ignorance causes fearlessness. Children have so little claim on hell, that if they should see it they would admire it.

Victor Hugo

#27. I am representing here - the sound of silence. The cry of innocence. And, the face of invisibility. I represent millions of those children who are left behind, and that's why I have kept an empty chair here as a reminder.

Kailash Satyarthi

#28. Staring at a world too horrible to comprehend, believing
by dint of ignorance and innocence
that beneath this unbearable contract of guilt and blame there is always an older contract that may bind and release in a more salutary way.

Gregory Maguire

#29. Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to Heaven. There are others: innocence, but that is for little children; penance, but we are afraid of it; generous endurance of trials of life, but when they come we weep and ask to be. The surest, easiest, shortest way is the Eucharist.

Pope Pius X

#30. One of the things I loved about my childhood was that I didn't feel like I lost my innocence too young, like some children these days.

Danielle De Niese

#31. Adults had the notion that juveniles needed to suffer. Only when they had suffered enough to wipe out most of their naturally joyous spirits and innocence were they staid enough to be considered mature. An adult was essentially a broken-down child.

Piers Anthony

#32. I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

John Boyne

#33. Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.

John Wyndham

#34. See the world with the innocence of children.
Approach the world with the daring of children.
Love the world with the readiness of children.
Heal the world with the purity of children.
Change the world with the wisdom of children.

Neale Donald Walsch

#35. Meditation is the art of cleaning your mirror from all the dust that the society, the religion, the educational system has poured on you, to take away everything that has not been born with you, to bring you to your absolute innocence as you were born as a child.

Rajneesh

#36. The innocence of children is what makes them stand out as a shining example to the rest of Mankind.

Kurt Chambers

#37. Say what you will, dear sister, we do what we do for the promise of our youth. Yet it is always they who scar beneath the points of daggers.

Chris Galford

#38. I want to talk about the internet, the impact it is having on the innocence of our children, how online pornography is corroding childhood and how, in the darkest corners of the internet, there are things going on that are a direct danger to our children, and that must be stamped out.

David Cameron

#39. And the sun on the wall of her room, the block of sun with all the tiny flying things in it. When she was little she thought they were the souls of dead insects, still buzzing in the light.

Tim Winton

#40. Innocence ain't all it's cracked up to be, you know. Innocent little kids rip the wings off flies, because they don't know any better. That's innocence.

Joe Hill

#41. I bought my first camera to photograph my brother's children. I learned a lot from that experience. The value of innocence and of not being focused on yourself, and I have to say that these things have remained with me to this day. I can immediately feel when someone is putting on a camera face.

Peter Lindbergh

#42. One of my favorite things is watching my children learn something new. The combination of innocence and excitement makes a parent feel truly alive, even if only for a second and peripherally.

Michael Adam Hamilton

#43. Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future.

Maria Montessori

#44. For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

G.K. Chesterton

#45. The essence of art is to recapturel the fantasy and the imagination of a child again, but without the innocence of a child.

Romare Bearden

#46. Those who judge children in their innocence, prove themselves the lesser of character and the greater of ignorance.

Wes Fesler

#47. Their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals.

Mark Helprin

#48. When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

Patrick Rothfuss

#49. The magic, the wonder, the mystery and the innocence of a child's heart are the seeds of creativity that will heal the world.

Michael Jackson

#50. I prefer to write books for children instead of reading them. But I do strongly believe in childhood and in respecting childhood innocence. I don't like books for children that deal with adult themes.

Philip Kerr

#51. Her purity of spirit would never be in doubt, though she moved through a blemished world.

Ian McEwan

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

T.H. White

#53. DOSTIE: Let's be honest here. People? Sometimes they suck. But kids, well, they're like a new snowfall, you know?

Hillary DePiano

#54. In Baltimore, kids grow up very quickly. You're placed in a lot of situations that a child shouldn't be in and a lot of Baltimore kids lose innocence very soon.

Sheldon Candis

#55. The child's naive dream of life is the only one worth having.

Marty Rubin

#56. Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child.

John Dryden

#57. I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.

Donna Tartt

#58. The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to which we are condemned, but it helps to dispel them. That is the secret to family life.

Joyce Carol Oates

#59. Innocence is something to be appreciated, to be understood, to be enjoyed. Like you see animals, they're innocent; you see children, they're innocent; flowers, they're innocent. Divert your attention to all these things.

Nirmala Srivastava

#60. There's this assumption that all children have the luxury of a childhood where their innocence is always respected and their main occupation is pleasant play - at the age of 18 or 21, they are then thrust into the real world and shown its uglier side, but not before.

Margo Lanagan

#61. Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

W.B.Yeats

#62. To injure, ignore, disrespect, and violate the innocence of a child are among the greatest evils known to man.

Billy Graham

#63. Life is not how we lead it. It is how children are born to lead it.

Raheel Farooq

#64. I would love to be fooled. The innocence of child for the first time, seeing something and being in wonder is something that I long for because I'm tainted.

Criss Angel

#65. 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

#66. He thought that if there were a God, His essence was in the virtuous innocence of the children.

Pete Conrad

#67. What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?

Nikita Khrushchev

#68. Even sleep is characteristic. How beautiful are children in their lovely innocence! how angel-like their blooming features! and how painful and anxious is the sleep of the guilty!

Wilhelm Von Humboldt

#69. In the hearts of children, there's so much trust and love. If only we could all cling throughout our lives to the wonder and innocence that are always present in a child. Our

Linda Thompson

#70. We must abandon the goals of perfect obedience and untainted innocence and begin to equip our children to see their place in God's family, their need for his grace, and their opportunity to embrace his mission.

Mark Matlock

#71. They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it
seems that only the children weep. Good night.

Harper Lee

#72. I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

Angelina Jolie

#73. Unlike adults, Phil said, children had an innocence that was refreshing. However, the human world had started to pollute them - like they did with oceans.

Alana Ankh

#74. The innocence of children is their wisdom, the simplicity of children is their egolessness. The freshness of the child is the freshness of your consciousness, which never becomes old, which always remains young.

Rajneesh

#75. People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.

Hector Hugh Munro

#76. Children are like soft petals. One wrong pluck and they are damaged forever.

Nikita Dudani

#77. My children inspire me with their innocence and enormous capacity to love.

Maria Canals Barrera

#78. Children who are ill, in their innocence and plight, teach adults many lessons, and one of those lessons is that 'Life must go on. Face it. Live it. Enjoy it. Despite all the odds.' That is bravery, in the eyes of a sick child.

Kcat Yarza

#79. Children are meant to grow up, and not to become Peter Pans. Not to lose innocence and wonder, but to proceed on the appointed journey: that journey upon which it is certainly not better to travel hopefully than to arrive, though we must travel hopefully if we are to arrive.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#80. The courage of children and beasts is a function of innocence.

Annie Dillard

#81. There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about.

Criss Jami

#82. A white male child of perfect innocence and intelligence makes the most suitable victim.

Aleister Crowley

#83. It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Tom Robbins

#84. Children are prophets of nature.

Raheel Farooq

#85. Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless.

Mason Cooley

#86. I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.

Mark Haddon

#87. I must say that my father is innocent. I should say it. I have to say it. I'm obliged to say it. My father will kill me if I don't say he is innocent. The children of murderers cannot kill the father.

Alejandro Zambra

#88. Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom, a lack of self-consciousness, that is innocence.

Frederick Lenz

#89. People never think of a child as being a monster, because if they did, they would never be able to sleep at night. Children are where lies peoples hopes, dreams, innocence... Not where lies murder.

Chelsea Radojcic

#90. If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to adults heaven is being children again.

Diane Ackerman

#91. Regarding local residents attempting to ban sex shops from their neighborhoods: You show me a parent who says he's worried about his child's innocence and I'll show you a homeowner trying to maintain equity.

George Carlin

#92. The human body represents to me the same universal innocence, timelessness and purity of all seed pods, suggesting the mother as well as the child, the parental as well as the descendant, conceived according to nature's longings.

Ruth Bernhard

#93. I wanted to shout down to him, to warn him that he was giving flowers to a monster, but I did not.

Neil Gaiman

#94. I liked all the children in my class. Back then, I think we all just tacitly assumed that we were equal. That we were all in the same boat. We didn't really think about our different genders, races or classes. We just co-existed, like one big family.

Joss Sheldon

#95. Making strides in areas unencumbered by hard-won expectation feels effervescent. By switching into child-mode, shuffling the cortex, we remember our innocence, when we knew less. These are the essentials of continued aesthetic discovery.

Sara Genn

#96. Children are like water; they don't much care where the stream takes them. They do nothing to avoid or follow the contours.

Nilesh Rathod

#97. But shouldn't they still act like children? They aren't normal. They act like
history. Napoleon and Wellington. Caesar and Brutus.

Orson Scott Card