Youthful Innocence Quotes

Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I've never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.

I have such memories; I keep thinking about all the people I worked with. I was in the recording studio and I was talking to one of the engineers who is 24 and they don't know these people. They just absolutely don't know the people and it just tickles me. I don't feel like I've grown up.

All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful, for Mrs Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, ‘Oh, why can’t you remain like this for ever!’ This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth Wendy knew that she must grow up. You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.

An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away.

I was 19 when I recorded my first album, and I've been exposed to many things during these last few years; all the baby fat is gone.

What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man.

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

I'm sure there's some awful video of me singing when I was, like, 13 or 15 at my old school that my dad didn't take down off YouTube.

It seems only yesterday I used to believe there was nothing under my skin but light. If you cut me I could shine.

When I was young, I had a beautiful singing voice.

Free - I miss that band, but when I look back, we were very young.

I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart.

Gin a body meet a body Coming thro' the rye, Gin a body kiss a body— Need a body cry?

I remember, when I was a kid, my summers were pretty much running around, riding your bike, and then complaining about you were bored.

The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.

Nature has thrown a veil of modest beauty over maidenhood and moss-roses.

To the children and the innocent it's all the same.

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.

Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not yet known, when all is new, And all is lovely.

To grow up is to wonder about things; to be grown up is to slowly forget the things you wondered about as a child.

My memories from childhood always involve a football.

It's always a really great feeling when I talk to people who watched 'Jett Jackson' because we were the same age. We were all kids. I was 13 when I started working on that show, and that was part of my childhood.

I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.

Everybody's twelve years old in an apple orchard.

When you're a kid, all you really care about are Slurpees and Slip N Slide and riding your bike, and that's what I did.