Innocence Quotes

"A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires." "It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one" "I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had." "When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind" "I think having a child is as close as you can get to seeing the face of God, no matter what you believe." "I want to be a kid forever." "I never want to grow up." "Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is" "Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird" "Everything is a ceremony in the wild garden of childhood" "There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions" "Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being." "An honest man is always a child" "Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?" "The soul is healed by being with children." "I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer." "The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants." "To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me" "Sometimes I believe it is best to take the child's approach to life, which assumes no limitation at all. Children set out to do things without knowing that they are not supposed to be able to do them."