Innocence Quotes · Page 17

“I see you kneeling in church—stained only by colored windows”

— john j geddes

Sometimes, being innocent is another way to show how honest you are.

— Aldyna Threesya

“He can feel them, reaching out for the child, groping their way to its purity…”

— J. Valor

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— John Milton

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

— Dennis DeYoung

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

— Ouida

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

— Flannery O'Connor

God never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state…

— Billy Graham

“This was me before I knew about anything hard, when my whole life was packed lunches and art projects and spelling quizzes.”

— Nina LaCour

Nuclear scientists lost their innocence when we used the atom bomb for the very first time. So we could argue computer scientists…

— Mikko Hypponen

“Ginger shrugged and batted her eyelids with innocence. “Those are words I like to live my life by—ambitious and daring. In fact,…

— Lee Strauss

Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Now that little Southern Belle I just met...well, that's a totally different story. I could feel the innocence just pouring off that…

— Nevaeh Lee

You lie once.. you lie for the rest of your life... and in quest of proving your innocence.. you pledge your honesty…

— Abhijeet Sawant

The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first…

— Robert Fripp

“These flowers are starwort," she said. "Starwort means 'welcome.' By giving you a bouquet of starwort, I'm welcoming you to my home,…

— Vanessa Diffenbaugh

“But I think parents aren't teachers anymore. Parents -- or a whole lot of us, at least -- lead by mouth instead…

— Robert R. McCammon

... Janis Joplin has one of the most distinguished female voices of the decade. It is a voice that has been aged…

— Al Aronowitz

“They are funny little representatives of simplicity, of awareness. No one is more aware of themselves as these children are. They have…

— Fisher Amelie

To the extent we are perceiving anyone's guilt -choosing to focus on the errors of their personality rather than the eternal innocence…

— Marianne Williamson

Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is…

— Octavio Paz

It's come at last," she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache. When there wasn't…

— Betty Smith

“Then Deborah stood at the wicket gate, the boundary, and there was a woman with outstretched hand, demanding tickets. "Pass through," she…

— Daphne du Maurier

“When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they don’t really know what they mean.”

— William Faulkner

“Billy ... was little more than a sort of upright barbarian ... as Adam presumably might have been [in Eden].”

— Herman Melville

Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

— Lyman Abbott

Without innocence, nothing can further, as they say in the I Ching.

— Frederick Lenz

The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes

— Anonymous

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

— Jimmy Buffett

“My innocence is wearin' thin But my heart is growing strong.”

— Fifth Harmony

Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence.

— Joan Mills

Natural Man, in our current version, is a disgruntled adolescent.

— Mason Cooley

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

— Jeanette Winterson

I haven't lost my innocence particularly. I'm always ready to pretend I haven't. Yeah, it is a shame in a way.

— Robert Plant

You don't need to prove you're innocence. . Because you're eyes say a thousand words that go unspoken

— Gomez

“Innocence still lives within our hearts and the child within each of us knows right from wrong.”

— Bryant McGill

Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days!

— Lord Byron

Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes.

— Daniel Defoe

Angels are not from heaven,our sincerity towards others will show the angels around us.

— Sumesh Nair