Innocence Quotes

"Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel" "There is no such thing as a grown person who has forgotten their childhood" "The child is a well-spring of love; whenever he is touched, he brings joy to the person who touches him." "How is it possible not to feel his inner beauty, so akin to the spiritual beauty which the child reveals? The child’s power is our power." "When I was a kid, my grandmother had this giant spool of thread, and we were going to string it out of her window real far, you know, and then let go and put a note on the end. Now I'm stuck with a spool of string I could never use up." "In every Infant’s cry of fear" "A man's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child at play" "Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings often come wise sentences" "The soul of a true Christian appears like a little white flower" "I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve." "Not all victims are innocent. Not all victims are Jews." "Art is childhood and no longer sleeps delighted by sun" "He who mocks the infant's faith" "The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool" "Hearts are like crystal, fragile and pure "