Youth Innocence Quotes

#1. I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got a lot back - all their purity and insight and innocence is so on the surface, and they're so unrepressed; they'd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss.

Bat For Lashes

#2. In Homer and Chaucer there is more of the innocence and serenity of youth than in the more modern and moral poets. The Iliad is not Sabbath but morning reading, and men cling to this old song, because they still have moments of unbaptized and uncommitted life, which give them an appetite for more.

Henry David Thoreau

#3. 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

#4. The victory's found in truth, like innocence found in youth Self defeat is your own dispute

Damian Marley

#5. Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

Bo Bennett

#6. There was something about Gawain's youth and credulity that was driving me to puncture his pious innocence.

Bernard Cornwell

#7. The components of innocence - security, a sense of wonder, and optimism- are not just throwaway by-products of the ignorance of youth.

Diane Medved

#8. It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one's stature on the edge of the door.

Evelyn Waugh

#9. She has the fascinating tyranny of youth, and the astonishing courage of innocence.

Oscar Wilde

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

Tom Robbins

#11. I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.

Anita Diamant

#12. By innocence I swear, and by my youth,
I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth,
And that no woman has, nor never none
Shall mistress be of it save I alone.

William Shakespeare

#13. I like being able to see an innocence in people. I see a lot of beauty in youth. Young people are in progress. Their faces and bodies and minds are constantly changing. It's exciting to capture that on film.

Bernardo Bertolucci

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

Truddi Chase

#15. 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

#16. Even innocence itself has many a wile,
And will not dare to trust itself with truth,
And love is taught hypocrisy from youth.

George Gordon Byron

#17. Innocence is like youth,' he declared sadly, 'which is given to us only to expend and takes its very meaning from its loss.

John Barth

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

T.H. White

#19. She had never had a friend like this, in her private room, combing her hair, listening to her, talking about silly nonsense and the uselessness of one's parents; how the future was perfect, because they hadn't lived it yet.

Jessie Burton

#20. You know what I miss the most about my youth? My gullibility. It's nice believing in everything and everyone. It makes you feel secure, but be strong and depend more on yourself and you'll be ready for disappointments. That's the best advice I can offer you.

V.C. Andrews

#21. He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all.

Cormac McCarthy

#22. So near along life's stream are the fountains of innocence and youth making fertile its sandy margin; and the voyageur will do well to replenish his vessels often at these uncontaminated sources.

Henry David Thoreau

#23. Give me passion.
Flash.
Give me joy.
Flash.
Give me youth and energy and innocence and beauty.
Flash.

Chuck Palahniuk

#24. As youth and innocence give way to experience, doubt clouds the mind. Those who find renewed purpose in the complexity will thrive instead of falter. -

Jon Skovron

#25. It takes a very long time to become young.

Pablo Picasso

#26. Young people sometimes use their innocence as an excuse to be unwise.

David A.R. White

#27. A cotton-candy knockout, a strawberry sundae sweetheart, and a vanilla soft-serve misfit. We are the youth. And we live in a world where innocence is so short.

YellowBella

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

Neil Gaiman

#29. I know that age, it's a particularly obstinate one, and a thousand bogies won't make you fear the future. A pity we can't change over.

Daphne Du Maurier

#30. The only thing scarier than death is the disappearance from youth.

Marc Spitz

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

Sheniz Janmohamed

#32. Saints preserve us,' Dr. Kellen said, and squeezed Galen's shoulder. 'What have we done to our youth?

Jessica Day George

#33. India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion
and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age

Jawaharlal Nehru

#34. I had forgotten such innocence exists,/forgotten how it feels/ to live with neither calendars nor clocks

P.K. Page