Childhood Innocence Quotes

Where once my careless childhood strayed, / A stranger yet to pain. — Thomas Gray

You either keep your childhood innocence or you rot! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

The child I was
is just one breath away from me. — Sheniz Janmohamed

A child's innocence is the one gift, that once stolen, can never be replaced. — Jaeda DeWalt

This was me before I knew about anything hard, when my whole life was packed lunches and art projects and spelling quizzes. — Nina LaCour

To express nostalgia for a childhood we no longer share is to deny the actual significance and humanity of children. — Perry Nodelman

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. — Pete Docter

One of the things I loved about my childhood was that I didn't feel like I lost my innocence too young, like some children these days. — Danielle De Niese

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. — Paula Sharp

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

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

Work, love, courage and hope,
Make me good and help me cope! — Anne Frank

No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing. — Federico Fellini

If the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin — Edna O'Brien

Once upon a time there was a girl named Debbie Jacobs and a boy named Teddy Dennis. — Rick Remender

That's the beautiful thing about innocence; even monsters have a pocketful of childhood memories with which to seek comfort with. — Dave Matthes

Back to my childhood where those monsters reside. They snack on innocence and dine on self esteem. — Jimmy Buffett

The art of living. Isn't that a funny expression? — Anne Frank

He strode with the weight of robbed innocence and a stolen childhood, for a life time of pain and anger, of terror and death."
- Frank Balenger — David Morrell

We're children. We're supposed to be childish. — George R R Martin

Heaven lies around us in our infancy. — William Golding

Childhood, after all, is the first precious coin that poverty steals from a child. — Anthony Horowitz

Believe in Eternity, believe in childhood, believe that the beauty of innocence lives on and on and on. I know it does. — Yann W. Tanoe

In an age of iPhones and Playstations, it's great to see that somebody's still rocking the bus-on-a-string. — Brandon Stanton

So was I once myself a swinger of birches.
And so I dream of going back to be. — Robert Frost

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. — John Marsden

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

No parson in the world ever pictured heaven so beautifully as they did, in their innocent talk — Emily Bronte

The nostalgia I have been cherishing all these years is a hypertrophied sense of lost childhood, not sorrow for lost banknotes. — Vladimir Nabokov

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals. — Clint Eastwood

It's never too late to have a happy childhood. — Tom Robbins