I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder. — John Boyne Copy Share Image
The pose of innocence is as mandatory as the ability to eat banquet food and endure the scourging of the press. — Lewis H. Lapham 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
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
“composed of all the innocence of the present, and of all the passion of the future.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The 'safe spaces' for minority students on university campuses are actually redemptive spaces for white students and administrators looking for innocence and… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
“Ah no, he did not want May to have that kind of innocence that seals the mind against imagination and the heart… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What there was no effective record of indeed was the small strange pathos on the child's part of an innocence so saturated… — Henry James Copy Share Image
So I live in Los Angeles, and it's kind of a goofy place. They have an airport named after John Wayne. That… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular. — Maximilien Robespierre Copy Share Image
Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“No mind seems more peaceful than the mind of a sleeping innocent child because life has not yet planted the seeds of… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human in not having to be just happy or just sad in… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
There is no basis in text, tradition, or even in contemporary practice (if that were enough), for finding in the Constitution a… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Our "life education" has not necessarily taught us a satisfying way to live. We suffer from a vague sense that there must… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
I saw the man my friendwants pardoned, Thomas Flinton. He is a bright, good-looking fellow… Of his innocence all are confident. The… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Those who have lost an infant are never, as it were, without an infant child. Their other children grow up to manhood… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Be ever watchful for the opportunity to shelter little children with the umbrella of your charity; be generous to their schools, their… — Conrad Hilton Copy Share Image
“The thing about learning how to fight is that— some of us are not born with that desire. They say some are… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it. I am little comfort to… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Keeping your innocence with a man should not be a job it should be a privilege — Kenzie-ann Copy Share Image
Apart from my mom, you are the only one to see me completly naked like this… — Reian Jain Copy Share Image
The worst of us is not without innocence,although buried deeply it might be. — Walt Disney 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
“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
English children have lost their innocence, for their first lessons have been in the exploitation of their adult slave. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“Innocence is a double edged sword - Nothing else can make the world more wonderous or deadly.” — Rich Jones Copy Share Image
Love, the most generous passion of the mind The softest refuge innocence can find — John Wilmot 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
Time of innocence, a time of confidences, long ago it must be. — Simon And Garfunkel 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
“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
