Quotes about Innocence of Childhood
I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world could cause me harm.
— Paulo Coelho
Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.
— Jack Kerouac
It is good to be children sometimes, and never better that at Christmas, when its might 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
It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when the Great Creator was a child himself.
— Charles Dickens
I should like to ask you:--Does your childhood seem far off? Do the days when you sat at your mother's knee, seem days of very long ago?
— Charles Dickens
There's something special about a kid's smile. I see in their faces what we all used to be before the world got hold of us.
— Charles Martin
But all those who were there, if they had lived past childhood, had twice in this world, first and last, been as helpless as a little child.
— Wendell Berry
Child, you are like a flower,So sweet and pure and fair.I look at you, and sadnessTouches me with a prayer.
— Heinrich Heine
What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.
— Epictetus
Childhood is not a state which only applies to the first phase of our lives in the biological sense. Rather it is a basic condition which is always appropriate to a life that is lived aright.
— Karl Rahner
Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.
— Jack Kerouac