Child Quote by William Faulkner

When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they dont really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and…

— William Faulkner

In my work, I try to reach and speak to that innocence, showing it the fun and joy of living; showing it that laughter…

— Walt Disney

In my work I try to reach and speak to that innocence, showing it the fun and joy of living; showing it that laughter…

— Walt Disney

A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder and innocence…

— Heather O'Neill

This is not politics... it's to protect the innocence of children.

— Bob Dole

“The innocence of children is what makes them stand out as a shining example to the rest of Mankind.”

— Kurt Chambers

The innocence of such children doesn't answer our deepest questions about this vale of tears to which we are condemned, but it helps to…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

— John Boyne

Grown-up people can wait.

— Ann Landers

God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings.

— Nikki Giovanni

Also, perhaps children are sterner than grown-up people in their refusal to suffer, in their refusal, even, to feel at all.

— Elizabeth Bowen

Grown-up people seem to be busy by clockwork... They run their unswerving course from object to object, directed by some mysterious inner needle that…

— Elizabeth Bowen

Christmas, in its final essence, is for grown people who have forgotten what children know. Christmas is for whoever is old enough to have…

— Margaret Cousins

As citizens we have to be more thoughtful and more educated and more informed. I turn on the TV and I see these grown…

— Emmylou Harris

“The entrepreneurs are only about my age, probably younger, but they don't seem so. Their tailored clothes and unbending hairdos, their clipboards and laser…

— Sara Baume