Best childhood & innocence Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Collins, Thomas Gray, and Oliver Goldsmith

“I know every numbskull will babble on about "black man," "maneater," "chance," and "retrospective interpretation," in order to banish something terribly inconvenient that might sully the familiar picture of childhood innocence. Ah, these good, efficient, healthy-minded people, they always remind me of those optimistic tadpoles who bask in a puddle in the sun, in the shallowest of waters, crowding together and amiably wriggling their tails, totally unaware that the next morning the puddle will have dried up and left them stranded.”

“You get the feeling that childhood does not last as long as it used to. Innocence gets harder to hold on to as the world gets older, as it accumulates more experience, more mileage and more blood on the tracks.”

World Long Doe Feelings Lasts Used Blood Childhood Harder Track Innocence Mileage

Author:Martin Amis

“I want to talk about the internet, the impact it’s having on the innocence of our children, how online pornography is corroding childhood and how, in the darkest corners of the internet, there are things going on that are a direct danger to our children and that must be stamped out.”

Want Children Childhood Danger Internet Direct Our Children Impact Corners Innocence Online Pornography

Author:David Cameron

“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.”

Knows Looks Heart Realizing Loss Darkness Forever Childhood Longing Rings Innocence Hollow Campfire Happy Childhood Loss Of Innocence

Author:Carolyn Hart

“You get to relive your childhood when you have a baby and you see these toys and these books you read when you were little - the innocence that you are able to maintain because you have to find that again in order to connect with your child keeps you in a special state of mind.”

Mind Children Littles Book States Able Order Childhood Special Baby Our Children Innocence Your Children State Of Mind Toys

Author:Idina Menzel

“The way in which we manage the business of getting and spending is closely tied to our personal philosophy of living. We begin to develop this philosophy long before we have our first dollar to spend; and unless we are thinking people, our attitude toward money management may continue through the years to be tinged with the ignorance and innocence of childhood.”

“Not since Lord of the Flies has a novelist written with such perceptiveness about the potential for harm that lurks within the innocence of childhood.”

Lord Written Childhood Harm Innocence Novelists

Author:Paula Sharp

“Every time we focus on someone else's darkness, we are blocking our own view of the light. We think the person we are involved with has attacked us or has withheld love from us, when they really haven't. We focus on their guilt instead of their innocence. Frequently people are just being themselves and we start projecting our own childhood dramas onto them, pushing away the very love we want so much.”

People Thinking Want Persons Light Views Darkness Focus Childhood Havens Involved Drama Guilt Block Innocence Pushing Just Being Pushing Away

Author:Marianne Williamson

“The child is innocence and forgetting, a new beginning, a game, a wheel rolling on its own, a prime movement, a sacred Yes.”

Children Play Games Forget Childhood Movement Yeah Sacred Innocence Wheels Prime Rolling New Beginnings

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Parents don't want their children to lose that purity and innocence of childhood. We want to bottle that and hold onto that, but it's impossible.”

Want Children Parent Loses Impossible Childhood Innocence Purity Bottles Purity And Innocence

Author:Pete Docter

“You either keep your childhood innocence or you rot!”

Childhood Innocence Your Children

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Through private investment capitalism kept raising the productivity of labor to new heights. Parents were able to earn enough so their offspring did not have to join the work force at an early age. This produced something unique in history: Childhood, a time when the young could experience the innocence of play and opportunity of schooling before entering the world of work.”

World Enough Play Age Able Young Opportunity Force Parent Childhood Unique Capitalism Labor Investment Productivity Innocence Height Entering Schooling Offspring

Author:Richard Ebeling

“Childhood has been idealised as a lost garden paradise to which we can never return. We are excluded from this world of carelessness, innocence and unity. But the imaginary kingdom is nothing more than a projection of adult ideas and concerns onto the image, an expression of our own yearnings. By photographing children alone, divorced from any social setting, I allow them to exist on their own...I am exploring the equivocal connection between self and world.”

“[Ending] is partly drawn from a desire to shock the audience, to brutally de-romanticize what many Americans think is happening overseas. And partly drawn from my own childhood: violence and a loss of innocence. But keep in mind that, as a writer, I'm both the criminal and the victim. I'm not trying to get out of anything easy.”

Thinking Trying Mind Desire Easy My Own Loss Audience Violence Childhood Happenings Victim Criminals Innocence Shock Loss Of Innocence

Author:Said Sayrafiezadeh

“I felt I had a very innocent childhood and I feel privileged by that. But as an adult, I know that there were people who didn't have that. There are a lot of teens who haven't had as easy a childhood as me, and having literature that explores these "darker" parts helps relieve the burden and stress they may be feeling. As a writer, there is often a temptation to draw back when we write for teens - to preserve their innocence. But the reality is, if someone has already had that innocence taken in their life, then not writing about it is just brushing it under the rug.”

People Writing Helping Feelings Reality Literature Easy Taken Childhood Stress Burden Innocent Temptation Innocence

Author:Jay Asher

“I was first sexually exploited when I was seven, by a distant cousin at a family wedding. Even after that I was routinely molested by older cousins and their friends. See, my innocence was taken away and I became mature at one bloody incident. I believe I never had a childhood. I grew up as an elderly person. And that's what my femininity brought upon me. Of course, in a patriarchal society, hijras' bodies are thought of as toys.”

Believe I Believe Taken Childhood Seven Innocence Mature Bloody Femininity Cousin Sexually

Author:Laxmi Narayan Tripathi

“Just imagine becoming the way you used to be as a very young child, before you understood the meaning of any word, before opinions took over your mind. The real you is loving, joyful, and free. The real you is just like a flower, just like the wind, just like the ocean, just like the sun.”

“When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.”

Source: The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:

“we have to listen to the child we once were, the child who still exists inside us. That child understands magic moments. We can stifle its cries, but we cannot silence its voice.The child we once were is still there. Blessed are the children, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.If we are not reborn if we cannot learn to look at life with the innocence and the enthusiasm o childhood it makes no sense to go on living.”

Ifs Looks Children Stills Moments Heaven Voice Silence Magic Childhood Cry Goes On Blessed Kingdoms Enthusiasm Innocence Reborn Kingdom Of Heaven Magic Moments

Author:Paulo Coelho

“There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third.”

Lost Love Is Childhood Thirds Innocence Get Back One Love Lost You

Book:Checkers

Source: Checkers

“No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing.”

Important Matter Happens Childhood No Matter What Important Things Innocence

Author:Federico Fellini

“It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the young to see what awful innocence adults grow into, that terrible vulnerability that must be sheltered from the rodent mire of childhood.”

Children Reality Young Grows Parent Common Grief Childhood Terrible Protect Adults Bitter Awful Innocence Vulnerability Rodents

Author:Katherine Dunn

“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”

Long Age Pain Passion Pleasure Known Childhood Youth Gains India Innocence Maturity Abandon Ripe Pain And Pleasure Insouciance

Book:The Quintessence of Nehru

Source: The Quintessence of Nehru

“There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with the desire to become somebody. Contemplate the crowds of people who are striving might and main to become, not what Nature intended them to be- musicians, cooks, mechanics, carpenters, gardeners, inventors- but "somebody": to become successful, famous, powerful; to become something that will bring not quiet and self-fulfillment, but self-glorification and self-expansion”

Source: The Way to Love: Meditations for Life

“Coming to the master is coming in search of your innocence, in search of your lost childhood, in search of your originality... in search of your individuality, in search of freedom.”

Lost Childhood Masters Individuality Innocence Originality

Author:Rajneesh

“To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken it will enter the regions of childhood vision and dream.”

“Choices, more choices than we like afterward to believe, are made far backward in the innocence of childhood.”

Believe Made Choices Belief Psychology Childhood Innocence

Book:The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic

Source: The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic

Childhood Quotes

Related topics

Childhood Quotes