Quotes About Child's Innocence

#1. A child's innocence is the one gift, that once stolen, can never be replaced.

Jaeda DeWalt

#2. 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

#3. You can become unhinged and cut loose from the world. You can believe you are a permanent outsider. But the innocence of a child will bring you back and give you the shield of joy with which to protect yourself. I have learned this late in life but not too late. It's never too late.

Michael Connelly

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

Nikita Dudani

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

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#6. Innocence still lives within our hearts and the child within us still knows right from wrong. Instead of connecting with ugliness; connect with beauty. Take great care with what you put into both your mind and body - your health and well-being are at a tremendous risk.

Bryant McGill

#7. Once a child is confronted with the concept of death there's a certain innocence that goes.

Patsy Kensit

#8. The resurrection is to be like a child, but with a difference. The difference is that we have freedom with wisdom instead of innocence.

Miguel Ruiz

#9. I was so happy that my mother, father, and two brothers had somehow found one another. Perhaps my mother and father have gotten back together, I thought.

Ishmael Beah

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

Jim Henson

#11. He had always tried to treat Havaa as a child and she always went along with it, as though childhood and innocence were fantastical creatures that had died long ago, resurrected only in games of make believe.

Anthony Marra

#12. 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

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

Lawren Harris

#14. He can feel them, reaching out for the child, groping their way to its purity ...

J. Valor

#15. Becoming a child is living toward a second innocence: not the innocence of the newborn infant, but the innocence that is reached through conscious choices.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#16. Under no circumstances would he [Humbert Humbert] have interfered with the innocence of a child, if there was the least risk of a row.

Vladimir Nabokov

#17. 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

#18. When a man possesses the innocence of a child, we call him a fool.
When a child possesses the cunning of a man, we call him an abomination. As with love, knowledge has its seasons.

R. Scott Bakker

#19. You are an intriguing combination, half child, half seductress, half angel."
I laughed sort and bitterly. "That's what all men like to think about women. Little girls they have to take care of
when I know for a fact it is the male who is more boy than man.

V.C. Andrews

#20. Who is that blond child laughing as he runs after his colored marbles? [my marbles]
It's me
And who is the poet writing this poem?
That blond child who laughed as he ran after his colored marbles

Pierre Albert-Birot

#21. The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the child, but ever further into sin, ever deeper into human life.

Hermann Hesse

#22. 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

#23. When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#24. The great advantage of having a bear as a central character is that he can combine the innocence of a child with the sophistication of an adult.

Michael Bond

#25. Despite her near delirium, she noticed Jared's eyes flicking constantly to the rearview mirror, disappointment and anger warring in his expression. She sometimes thought that he shed a large part of his innocence that night, a child confronting his parent's awful shortcomings.

Nicholas Sparks

#26. 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

#27. Listen to the child in you and follow its innocence

Munia Khan

#28. The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a self-rolling wheel, a first movement, a sacred Yes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#29. 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

#30. You are not the happy, unthinking child you have always appeared to be, accepting everything at its face value. You are not just one of the women of the household. You are Renisenb who wants to think for herself, who wonders about other people.

Agatha Christie

#31. Nick felt a tear rise to his eye at the thought of the child's utter innocence of hangovers.

Alan Hollinghurst

#32. When I was a child, I used to look at the sky and wonder how were stars fixed on the canopy and why didn't they fall on Earth. I also wondered why they disappeared in day time. When I grew up, all my questions got answered, but I lost my innocence.

Tarif Naaz

#33. I cherished her individuality, that spark of independence no child should lose to life's restrictions and parameters.

Truddi Chase

#34. 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

#35. Believe in Eternity, believe in childhood, believe that the beauty of innocence lives on and on and on. I know it does.

Yann W. Tanoe

#36. 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

#37. It was too late. Maybe yesterday, while I was still a child, but not now. I knew too much, had seen too much, I was a child no longer now; innocence and childhood were forever lost, forever gone from me.

William Faulkner

#38. 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

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

Billy Graham

#40. 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

#41. The Grizzly Bear is huge and wild;
He has devoured the infant child.
The infant child is not aware
It has been eaten by a bear."
"Infant Innocence

A.E. Housman

#42. He was filled with horror at the thought of what a child becomes, and what the dead must feel watching the change from innocence to guilt and powerless to stop it

Graham Greene

#43. I look upon the gift of my life as a wondrous journey.

Maureen Brady

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

Marty Rubin

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

John Dryden

#46. I was sophisticated enough to know that the written word is no mirror of the writer's character, that the amateur, though a selfless angel, may show himself a pompous ass, while the professional, a monster of ego, can convince you in a phrase that he has the innocence of a child. I

Louis Auchincloss

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. It is no use trying to assume again the state of innocence and acceptance of the animal or the child. This time it has to be conscious. To circle about in such gladness as his, is the effort of a whole lifetime.

Jeanette Winterson

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. Most men die many times in their lives. The man we become invariably slaughters the child we once were. His knowledge of the world murders the babe's innocence.
from Time Untime by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#55. 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

#56. Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public.

Criss Jami

#57. I saw something I could never forget. I saw lifetimes of acknowledgement, fear, wisdom, questioning, and understanding in a child's eye. It was the worst thing I would ever witness.

Shannon A. Thompson

#58. 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

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

Aleister Crowley

#60. The child I was
is just one breath away from me.

Sheniz Janmohamed

#61. You get to relive your childhood when you have a baby and you see these toys and these books you read when you were little - the innocence that you are able to maintain because you have to find that again in order to connect with your child keeps you in a special state of mind.

Idina Menzel

#62. What there was no effective record of indeed was the small strange pathos on the child's part of an innocence so saturated with knowledge and so directed to diplomacy.

Henry James

#63. Aurora, you're a child, live like one, don't act like one. Enjoy the innocence, dump the immaturity.

Noorilhuda

#64. 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

#65. 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

#66. I have been wrongly accused; and you, ma'am, and everybody else, will now think me wicked."
"We shall think you what you prove yourself to be, my child. Continue to act as a good girl, and you will satisfy us.

Charlotte Bronte

#67. And yet a child's utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes as intelligence waxes.

Herman Melville

#68. Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child.

Anthony Horowitz

#69. Let the purity and innocence of a child be your one and only religion!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#70. Don't be so timid! When you were a child, didn't you speak out the truth that the oldest ones kept secret? Well, you were right then. You must find the time of innocence in yourself again, because that was also the time of courage.

Amin Maalouf

#71. 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