Quotes about Innocence
unchanging truth, that unless we become as little children in the doing of our Heavenly Father's Will, we cannot enter into our Eternal Home.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Trippa, troppa, tronjes, De varken's in de boonjes, De koejes in de klaver, De paardeen in de haver, De eenjes in de water-plass! So groot myn kleine (here insert the little boy's or little girl's name)
— Theodore Roosevelt
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
— Henry David Thoreau
Marvelous are the innocent.
— Virginia Woolf
There was a serenity about him always that had the look of innocence, when, technically, the word was no longer applicable.
— Virginia Woolf
Had they not been taken, she asked, to circuses when they were children? Never, he answered, as if she asked the very thing he wanted; had been longing all these days to say, how they did not go to circuses.
— Virginia Woolf
Stepping through fields of flowers and taking to her breast buds that had broken and lambs that had fallen; with the stars in her eyes and the wind in her hair— He took her bag.
— Virginia Woolf
Stepping through fields of flowers and taking to her brest buds that had broken and lambs that had fallen; with the stars in her eyes and wind in her hair— he took her bag.
— Virginia Woolf
It is good to be children sometimes, and never better that at Christmas, when its might Founder was a child Himself.
— Charles Dickens
It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.
— Charles Dickens
For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.
— Charles Dickens
I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.
— Charles Dickens