Blood Quote by Martin Amis

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…

— Danielle de Niese

So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age.

— John Gardner

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.

— Clint Eastwood

I think that childhood is innocent, but not in the way we usually believe. I think it's a very sensual age, where emotions and…

— Celine Sciamma

Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is…

— Cesare Pavese

I've always felt this, from when I was growing up to now with my son Riley. We don't let them be little. I was…

— Melissa Peterman

With childhood comes a brief grace period of ignorant bliss -- when you're not aware of the pain around you. That is the most…

— Barry Privett

Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin,…

— Jonathan Tropper

I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can…

— Sadie Jones

I think a lot of people also have kids to reclaim thу innocence and experience it over again. I think it's about staying curious…

— Mamie Gummer

The burdens of childhood are as hard to bear as the crosses that weigh us down later in life, while the happinesses of childhood…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“Children lose their innocence piece by piece. The layers are carved away until our hearts have been exposed and polished into an unnatural gloss.…

— Deborah Smith