“Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The hour of spring was dark at last, sensuous memories of sunlight past, I stood alone in garden bowers and asked the… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
The harvest moon has no innocence, like the slim quarter moon of a spring twilight, nor has it the silver penny brilliance… — Donald C. Peattie Copy Share Image
It is photography itself that creates the illusion of innocence. Its ironies of frozen narrative lend to its subjects an apparent unawareness… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The practice of Zen mind is beginner's mind. The innocence of the first inquiry—what am I?—is needed throughout Zen practice. The mind… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Staring at a world too horrible to comprehend, believing -- by dint of ignorance and innocence -- that beneath this unbearable contract… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
So much of what a pet is about for us is that it becomes a vessel for yearnings, dreams, illusions, hopes and… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
I believe Michael [Jackson] in a sense is an American martyr. Martyrs are persecuted and Michael was persecuted. Michael was innocent and… — David LaChapelle Copy Share Image
“My child, I know you're not a child But I still see you running wild Between those flowering trees. Your sparkling dreams,… — Antonia Michaelis Copy Share Image
Flea-Market vendors are frozen mid-haggle. Middle-aged women are frozen in the middle of their lives. The gavels of frozen judges are frozen… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The silliest and most tendentious of baseball writing tries to wrest profundity from the spectacle of grown men hitting a ball with… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
And his knowledge remained woefully incomplete, Harry! That which Voldemort does not value, he takes no trouble to comprehend. Of house-elves and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Shocked?” Juliet queried, the light pink tint on her cheeks the only telling sign of her discomfort with the conversation. He nodded.… — Rose Gordon Copy Share Image
I read Norman Lock’s The Boy in His Winter with delight and amazement. Styled in the vernacular of a rapidly changing America,… — David Oshinsky Copy Share Image
I learned that it is better, a thousandfold , for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
By the laws of rectitude accused Persons, however atrocious their offences, are allowed to make their defence, and by a verdict of… — Judith Sargent Murray Copy Share Image
“She clapped her hands and murmured, "Blue sky, blue eyes," as if it amused her. While we snuggled down there out of… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
We must face the fact that we are on the brink of times when man may be able to magnify his intellectual… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
“For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. Of course, they have memories. Of… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“Paths of the mirror" I And above all else, to look with innocence. As if nothing was happening, which is true. II… — Alejandra Pizarnik Copy Share Image
In April 1917 the illusion of isolation was destroyed, America came to the end of innocence, and of the exuberant freedom of… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes; the distinctions which set one man so much above another are very little perceived… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Children lose their innocence piece by piece. The layers are carved away until our hearts have been exposed and polished into an… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
“By innocence I swear, and by my youth, I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth. And that no woman has,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Childhood has been idealised as a lost garden paradise to which we can never return. We are excluded from this world of… — Loretta Lux Copy Share Image
It doesn’t make sense, it’s not logical, it’s not a safe profession or a smart profession if you wanna make money or… — Santino Fontana Copy Share Image
I can sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a… — Idina Menzel Copy Share Image
If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Truth cannot be defined, although it can certainly be experienced. But experience is not a definition. A definition is made by the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Is there wisdom in innocence? I think there is, but there is a cult now of drab men and women, for whom… — Phillip Mann Copy Share Image
Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Asset forfeiture is a mockery of the Bill of Rights. There is no presumption of innocence, no need to prove you guilty… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
A cold and searching wind drives away all contagion, and nothing can withstand it but what has a virtue in it, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I still had my innocence of a woman who just wanted to keep her “gifts” for her husband, But what about the… — Ndeupewa Copy Share Image
The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course. Until Caroline had died I had belonged… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
O! useful may it be to have shewn, that, though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
As children's inquiries are not to be slighted, so also great care is to be taken, that they never receive deceitful and… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The issue is not whether there are horrible cases where the penalty seems "right". The real question is whether we will ever… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
![“I believe Michael [Jackson] in a sense is an American martyr. Martyrs are persecuted and Michael was persecuted. Michael was innocent and martyrs are innocent. If you go on YouTube and watch interviews with Michael, you don't see a crack in the facade. There's this purity and this innocence that…” quote by David LaChapelle](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f13/david-lachapelle-8697_believe_i-believe-michael-jackson-in-a-sense-is_1089907.jpg)
![“It doesn’t make sense, it’s not logical, it’s not a safe profession or a smart profession if you wanna make money or have a living or have a family. So the fact that we keep doing [theatre] means we’re getting something from it that is almost childlike in its innocence.” quote by Santino Fontana](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/cec/santino-fontana-61079_childlike_it-doesn-t-make-sense-it-s-not-logical-i_1488211.jpg)
