Innocence Quotes

"Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is" "I never want to grow up." "I want to be a kid forever." "I think having a child is as close as you can get to seeing the face of God, no matter what you believe." "When you're a little kid, you don't see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind" "I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss." "I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free" "The child is both a hope and a promise for mankind." "I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had." "Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird" "There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child." "The soul of sweet delight can never be defiled" "Within the child lies the fate of the future." "Children are human beings to whom respect is due, superior to us by reason of their innocence and of the greater possibilities of their future." "Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent"