Quotes About The Loss Of Childhood Innocence

#1. To be a great composer requires immense experience ... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own!

Frederic Chopin

#2. 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

#3. Don't we all look back in longing, those of us who had happy childhoods? Because the greatest loss we ever know is not the loss of family or place or money, it is the loss of innocence. There is forever a hollow place in our hearts once we realize that darkness rings the campfire.

Carolyn Hart

#4. We must move on, of course. There's no point in hankering after distant pleasures and lost picture palaces. But there's no harm in indulging in a little nostalgia. What is nostalgia, after all, but an attempt to preserve that which was good in the past? And

Ruskin Bond

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

Anthony Horowitz

#6. The hardest for man is lie to himself between 3:00 and 6:00 in the morning.

Stephen King

#7. Americans have so far put up with inequality because they felt they could change their status. They didn't mind others being rich, as long as they had a path to move up as well. The American Dream is all about social mobility in a sense - the idea that anyone can make it.

Fareed Zakaria

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

Sheniz Janmohamed

#9. I always ask myself why old heavyweights come back, but I plan to stay out of the ring.

Lennox Lewis

#10. Emma gasped. "You drank faerie wine? Cristina! That's how you black out and wake up the next day under a bridge with a tattoo that says I LOVE HELICOPTERS.

Cassandra Clare

#11. Forest who is in love with fire will wear black wedding gown in her wedding.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. Love is self-serving - we do all sorts of things for our own comfort and call it love. But revenge is an intimate thing, don't you think? Would you be willing to enact another persons vengeance?

Kathleen Tessaro

#13. My life owes me. Like an overdose, I'm slowly
Drifting into the arms of trouble, then trouble holds me

K'naan

#14. I've always had this vision that the touring lifestyle is so unsustainable. But I have faith that I can do it, and I don't become a victim of my job or my work. And I can remove my self-worth from what I make and how many people show up.

Thao Nguyen

#15. a word, as often happens, can be like a musical worm in the mind and invite repetition. But

Alexander McCall Smith

#16. I was thinking of how, when we think of loss in our life, how our sense of 'home' was the first thing to go. You know, we lose that place of childhood innocence, of feeling protected. And so many of us spend the rest of our lives trying to reclaim that place called home, that life made simple again.

Tabitha Vohn