Innocence Quotes

"I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss." "I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free" "The child is both a hope and a promise for mankind." "I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had." "Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird" "There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child." "The soul of sweet delight can never be defiled" "Within the child lies the fate of the future." "Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future." "Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent" "The angel that presided o’er my birth Said Little creature form’d of Joy and Mirth, Go love without the help of any Thing on Earth" "There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book" "Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these" "People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children" "In every real man, a child is hidden that wants to play" "We was young and we was dumb, but we had heart" "A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate." "There is no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes." "The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop" "Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong"