For I had expected always Some brightness to hold in trust, Some final innocence To save from dust — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“His career, my education, his freedom, my innocence…all tied together in a nice little package of morality.” — Gretchen de la O Copy Share Image
... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
All fables, indeed, have their morals; but the innocent enjoy the story. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Time of innocence, a time of confidences, long ago it must be. — Simon And Garfunkel Copy Share Image
A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
“What I call innocence is the spirit's unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“It's a razor's edge kind of innocence, which relies on a willingness to be duped for the sake of transcending ordinary experience,… — Maud Casey Copy Share Image
I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached itself… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Our lips were for each other and our eyes were full of dreams. We knew nothing of travel and we knew nothing… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Once innocence--an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists--encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood, it… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
The kind of people that love 'The Rocketeer' are the kind of people that love good storytelling and innocence and a better… — Billy Campbell Copy Share Image
Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
An indiscriminate distrust of human nature is the worst consequence of a miserable condition, whether brought about by innocence or guilt. And… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“It takes strength to remember, it takes another kind of strength to forget, it takes a hero to do both. People who… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
Dantes passed through all the stages of torture natural to prisoners in suspense. He was sustained at first by that pride of… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
Exercising leadership is an expression of your aliveness... But when you cover yourself up, you risk losing something as well. In the… — Ronald A. Heifetz Copy Share Image
“Although her disobedience is tragic, Eve’s innocence is not all bad. Certainly, that innocfence leads her to make a poor choice -… — Robert Rowland Smith Copy Share Image
“...princess play feels like proof of our daughters' innocence, protection against the sexualization it may actually be courting. It reassures us that,… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“I'm amazed and disheartened at how quickly adolescents lose their innocence nowadays. Everyone is in such a rush to give themselves over… — Karen Amanda Hooper Copy Share Image
“Their innocence is addicting, their hope is catching and I'm happy to be surrounded by them.” — Fisher Amelie Copy Share Image
Those who judge children in their innocence, prove themselves the lesser of character and the greater of ignorance. — Wes Fesler Copy Share Image
Love, the most generous passion of the mind The softest refuge innocence can find — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
“Innocence is a double edged sword - Nothing else can make the world more wonderous or deadly.” — Rich Jones Copy Share Image
English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“Was it not worth the loss of a little immortality to have that strange mix of innocence and strength close to him?” — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
Apart from my mom, you are the only one to see me completly naked like this… — Reian Jain Copy Share Image
“Yes, we have lost track of the light, the mornings, the holy innocence of those who forgive themselves.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The worst of us is not without innocence,although buried deeply it might be. — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
Keeping your innocence with a man should not be a job it should be a privilege — Kenzie-ann Copy Share Image
“composed of all the innocence of the present, and of all the passion of the future.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt. — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
It is the end of all hope. To lose the child, the faith. To end all the innocence. To be someone like… — Nightwish Copy Share Image
“Children are like soft petals. One wrong pluck and they are damaged forever.” — Nikita Dudani Copy Share Image
