Innocence Quotes · Page 17

“What a number of things a river does, by simply following Gravity in the innocence of its heart!”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“It was almost as if she was still the bewildred girl of fourteen who wasn't ready to be an adult.”

— Deborah Rodriguez

“How could he maintain the apology in his eyes without getting carried away by her cherubic innocence?”

— Faraaz Kazi

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

— Graham Greene

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

— Henry David Thoreau

Innocence is not accustomed to blush. [Fr., L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee.]

— Moliere

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.

— Joseph Addison

Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

For 14 years, I could not find volunteer lawyers capable of providing the legal assistance I needed to prove my innocence.

— Anthony Ray Hinton

Anglers boast of the innocence of their pastime; yet it puts fellow-creatures to the torture. They pique themselves on their meditative faculties;…

— Leigh Hunt

America has a hold on imaginations that no other country does. I think that is partly because it is an immigrant country…

— Pico Iyer

Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter…

— Yoko Ono

This young man-whether he's my son or a stranger-repeatedly declares, "I didn't do it, I didn't do it." And he's shot down.…

— Marguerite Oswald

It may part of a one way evolution... or it may be we are currently on the downside of an innocence cycle…

— Christopher Knight

When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I…

— Howard Ikemoto

“And there persisted in her a sense of Michael’s dangerous innocence, his naivete, which seemed to her to be connected to his…

— Anne Rice

“When your defenses are down, it's alarming and beautiful - all that strength contained in a glass jar of innocence." He swallowed.…

— Lynda Meyers

Truth is, most of us contain a splashing, giggling, squealing child who knows without thinking that bare skin and water go together…

— Janet Lembke

“But I did not bring the Wild Boy to England simply so he could learn from us. I also brought him here…

— Christopher Daniel Mechling

The innocence of those who grind the faces of the poor, but refrain from pinching the bottoms of their neighbour's wives! The…

— Aldous Huxley

I think scent is sensual. I guess evoking a mood or a spirit is key, and I think with the women's fragrances…

— Marc Jacobs

I wanted to be born at the farthest limit of the world. I'll explore it, I said to myself, biting big chunks…

— Abba Kovner

“There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well,…

— Ayn Rand

Love isn't as simple as you wish it would be. On the other hand, it's nowhere near as complicated as you fear…

— Rob Brezsny

“The scene had the innocence of all unsettling things that take place in silence.”

— Yuri Herrera

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

— Charles Peguy

“Experience surrounds innocence and innocence can never be regained once lost.”

— Matt Haig

O Innocence, with laughing eyes! Thou art a cherub from the skies, A wanderer from heaven.

— Harvey Rice

More than anything, it's a game of innocence. Politicians may come and go, but they always get booed at the ballpark.

— Pete Hamill

The culture will not be able to persist in light of the rigid systems of its own innocence.

— Michael Eric Dyson

I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality.

— Geoffrey S. Fletcher

Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults.

— Edmund Waller

Crime like virtue has its degrees; and timid innocence was never known to blossom suddenly into extreme license.

— Jean Racine

In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.

— Carolyn Heilbrun

“If I am to be a skeleton in a box buried deep into the ground, I pray you will be the dust…

— John Hennessy

Your innocence makes me forget all shady things of this world.

— Anonymous

Innocent girl -Bitch it doesn't matter how much you are sexy, In the end he gonna marry me only.

— Nishan Panwar

“We'll never feel safe again, and so it's bye-bye innocence. It's been nice knowing you, but you're gone now.”

— John Marsden

I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.

— Pierre Corneille

I really feel like the sky is the limit with the Innocent Criminals today.

— Ben Harper