Innocence Quotes · Page 15

“To express nostalgia for a childhood we no longer share is to deny the actual significance and humanity of children.”

— Perry Nodelman

“But she'd lost a good deal of her innocence there, because she'd discovered so much she couldn't control.”

— Lorraine Heath

The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute.

— William Shakespeare

Back then they had Elvis and they thought Elvis was so risqué. So everyone has their perception to what innocence is.

— Josh Brolin

Once a child is confronted with the concept of death there's a certain innocence that goes.

— Patsy Kensit

“But there was something so admirable about her innocence that he would not insult her by tarnishing it.”

— Eve Edwards

It is Australian innocence to love The naturally excessive and be proud Of a thoroughbred gelding who ran fast.

— Peter Porter

“The lily represents the restored innocence of the soul upon death.”

— C.M. Stunich

Like the Bible says. A child should be leader of them all, and to be led by that kind of innocence. Didnt…

— Michael Jackson

The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics…

— John Scott

Go in thy native innocence, rely On what thou hast of virtue, summon all, For God towards thee hath done his part,…

— Robert Browning

Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, "I didn't do it." Guilt has a thousand voices,…

— Anonymous

“They have secret weapons that break the heart of innocents, elevate stress levels, shoot down to make it look guilt. They can…

— Maria Karvouni

Do you who are a Christian desire to be revenged and vindicated, and the death of Jesus Christ has not yet been…

— Saint Augustine

“She has this amazing aura around her which catches you off-guard. A girl’s innocence combined with a woman’s sensitivity. A charm that…

— Avijeet Das

Those that expose themselves as knowing the truth, lose the battle of innocence and humility and eventually pull a trigger at the…

— Akiane Kramarik

Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn,…

— Lin Yutang

Daniel held himself very still, waiting for the wave of jealousy that never came. He was furious with the man who’d taken…

— Julia Quinn

If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. If women can supply no counterbalance…

— Germaine Greer

Knowing what [Christ] knew , knowing all about mankind--ah! who would have thought that the crime is not so much to make…

— Albert Camus

So many times I've photographed stories that show the degradation of the planet. I had one idea to go and photograph the…

— Sebastiao Salgado

“I see you exhausted by poisonous flies; I see you bleeding and torn at a hundred spots; and your pride refuses even…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Mind is repetitive, mind always moves in circles. Mind is a mechanism: you feed it with knowledge, it repeats the same knowledge,…

— Rajneesh

Focus on guilt will always breed fear, and focus on innocence will always breed love. Any time we project guilt onto someone…

— Marianne Williamson

The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence.

— Saul Bellow

“Smile on the face or innocence on the face is as attractive as beauty on the face.”

— Amit Kalantri

“You can't measure what a boy did in innocence against what a man has to do for the rest of his life.”

— Aaron Allston

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.

— Irving Howe

“Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, as well.”

— C.S. Lewis

I set my heart out to prove my innocence by any means necessary.

— Brian Banks

There is no courage but in innocence; no constancy but in an honest cause.

— Thomas Southerne

Only her death could prove her innocence; a circle of impossible, deathly judgement.

— Alice Hoffman

We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.

— Katherine Dunn

I am as innocent regarding any conspiracy as any of you gentlemen in the room.

— Jack Ruby

The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.

— Flannery O'Connor

To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.

— Ouida

In our haste to grow too soon, we left our innocence on Desert Moon.

— Dennis DeYoung

Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.

— John Milton

The big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent nose, In piteous chase.

— William Shakespeare

Back to my childhood where those monsters reside. They snack on innocence and dine on self esteem.

— Jimmy Buffett