The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot…

I project a definite innocence. A lot of that is just the way I grew up.

— River Phoenix

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

— Louis Kronenberger

There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with the desire to become…

— Anthony de Mello

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

— Loren Eiseley

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…

— Pete Docter

“the English novel is childish because what is desired is not maturity and wisdom but a return to the safety and innocence of childhood—”

— Lewis Carroll

Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to the innocence…

— Jo Nesbo

“I was so young, I tell myself now. I was twenty-one, only recently farewelled by childhood, although at the time childhood seemed like ancient…

— Mary-Rose MacColl

“How we perceive, feel about and respond to people and situations is far more guided by the lessons of early childhood than we would…

— Charlette Mikulka

Now words like innocence Don't mean a thing You hear the music play But you can't sing Those pictures in your mind Keep you…

— Rachel Copeland

High school is cool, especially that first-love mentality. That's what 'Sierra Burgess' captures is, like, his first moment of love. That's what I love.…

— Noah Centineo

There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

— Jean Baudrillard

Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless…

— Oscar Wilde

Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

— Oscar Wilde

But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is…

— Laurell K. Hamilton