Innocence Quotes · Page 14

“Life is not how we lead it. It is how children are born to lead it.”

— Raheel Farooq

I met Big Pun when I was a young boy. I think that he really gravitated to my innocence.

— Tony Sunshine

How but in custom and in ceremony are innocence and beauty born?

— Anonymous

“Never mourn the loss of innocence, because it always brings the much greater gain of wisdom.”

— Erica Goros

Every girl's first love are full of innocence, But it is his misfortune, his lover's just wants to indulge her.

— Mak_786

I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“the fabric of family, the limits of love, the loss of innocence and the birth of knowledge.”

— Betty Smith

Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.

— Jean Racine

“...and his eyes had that splendid innocence, that opaque blue candour of the satanically fallen. ~ The French Lieutenant’s Woman ”

— John Fowles

I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows…

— Fred Melamed

The artist has to look at life as he did when he was a child. If he loses that faculty, he cannot…

— Henri Matisse

In Baltimore, kids grow up very quickly. You're placed in a lot of situations that a child shouldn't be in and a…

— Sheldon Candis

Innocence is not virtue. Virtue demands the active employment of an ardent mind in the promotion of the general good. No man…

— William Godwin

I will prove my innocence, ... I guarantee the Filipino people that I will be vindicated because the truth is on my side.

— Joseph Estrada

Mistaking Palestinian military weakness for moral innocence seems to further amplify the inattention of journalists to the culture of lies.

— Ilana Mercer

“The appearance of one's innocence is a funny house of cards; you start by shifting the smallest thing, and before you know…

— Suzanne Rindell

“Consider," she said, "what it is, a unicorn. It is the incarnation of purity, an avatar of innocence. And here is the…

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

“People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another…

— Anonymous

Presumptions of guilt or innocence may sometimes be strengthened or weakened by the place of birth and kind of education and associates…

— Levi Woodbury

You loved people and you came to depend on their being there. but people died or changed or went away and it…

— Audre Lorde

We find that Good and Evil happen alike to all Men on this Side of the Grave; and as the principle Design…

— Joseph Addison

I lost my innocence with Johnny Cash. I used to watch the 'Johnny Cash Show' on television in Wangaratta when I was…

— Nick Cave

I felt I had a very innocent childhood and I feel privileged by that. But as an adult, I know that there…

— Jay Asher

“Why are girls to be told that they resemble angels; but to sink them below women? Or, that a gentle, innocent female…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.

— Michael Pollan

“It was easy to fool the three of us (tween boys), who were naked with innocence.”

— “The Cat’s Table” by Michael Ondaatje

“Too much innocence can also refer to ignorance. Therefore, mankind is innocent.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.

— Jack Lynch

I have always said that innocence is much more powerful than experience.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

We stopped looking under our beds for monsters when we realized they are inside us.

— Leslie

A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

When a person is found less guilty than he is suspected, he is concluded more innocent than he really is.

— Charlotte Lennox

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

— Voltaire

Already old, the question Who shall die? Becomes unspoken Who is innocent?

— Karl Shapiro

Innocence alone dares commit certain acts of audacity. Virtue, when tutored, is as calculating as vice.

— Honore de Balzac

I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.

— Steve Toltz

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

— Albert Camus

I have no better way of judging guilt or innocence than anyone else.

— Robert Shapiro

Innocence was gone from all our acts. Our habitual state of rebellion became a serious political crime.

— Anais Nin

I think Indian women are very beautiful. They have a sense of elegance and innocence.

— Pierce Brosnan