Quotes About Innocent Childhood

#1. In the unspoilt state of innocent childhood, practically every human being has a natural and direct feeling for the existence of God Almighty. But as time passes, this faith may be deflected and people start believing in other powers - political, economic or social.

Nirmala Srivastava

#2. I mix everything up. A museum curator once said to me that there is a great jazz component to the way I do things because good jazz is improvisation and draws elements from all different cultures. And that's the way I do everything - the way I dress and decorate.

Iris Apfel

#3. Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.

Rollo May

#4. What time can be more beautiful than the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life?

Leo Tolstoy

#5. What better time is there in our lives than when the two best of virtues-innocent gaiety and a boundless yearning for affection-are our sole objects of pursuit?

Leo Tolstoy

#6. All too soon will Childhood gay Realise Life's sober sadness. Let's be merry while we may, Innocent and happy Fay! Elves were made for gladness!

Lewis Carroll

#7. Sweetheart,' 'darling,' 'luv.' I like these words; they fit me like a comfortable old pullover. I remember them from childhood; that's what innocent little boys were called by cheerful aunties back then, to make them feel welcome and secure in the world.

Michael Leunig

#8. No parson in the world ever pictured heaven so beautifully as they did, in their innocent talk

Emily Bronte

#9. One thing I can say about George ... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.

Barbara Bush

#10. Above the youth's inspired and flashing eyes/I see the motley, mocking fool's-cap rise.

Thomas Hardy

#11. Religion worried him. It could ask men to do things they'd otherwise never do.

Brandon Sanderson

#12. A live spent resisting temptations is a wasted life ... .

Paulo Coelho

#13. This is because he has in his heart a pearl, innocence; and pearls are not to be dissolved in mud. So long as man is in his childhood, God wills that he shall be innocent.

Victor Hugo

#14. Everyone is guilty of something, and everyone still harbors a memory of childhood innocence, no matter how many layers of life wrap around it. Humanity is innocent; humanity is guilty, and both states are undeniably true.

Neal Shusterman

#15. I would not say he (David Ginola) is the best left-winger in the Premiership, but there are none better.

Ron Atkinson

#16. Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood.

Mignon McLaughlin