Innocence Quotes · Page 18

There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

My innocence is running thin, but my heart is growing strong.

— Anonymous

Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless.

— Mason Cooley

Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.

— William Davenant

I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas.

— Hillary Scott

I think you lose your innocence when you have kids, because the world suddenly becomes a much more dangerous place.

— Jon Stewart

Let the purity and innocence of a child be your one and only religion!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“What he lacked in experience, he made up for in enthusiasm and the sweetness of innocence.”

— Nick Wilgus

The fruition of what is unlawful must be followed by remorse. The core sticks in the throat after the apple is eaten,…

— Jane Porter

If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then…

— Luis Bunuel

“That's what innocence is, you know. A blissful oblivion of what's coming, of what you'll lose and what you'll gain, and what…

— Laura Wiess

I think it's so completely bizarre and arrogant for anyone to ever think that they could lose their innocence, because that implies…

— Andrew W.K

She is got the eyes of innocence, the spirit of an angel, a personality of a dreamer and smile that hides more…

— Vishak

By innocence I swear, and by my youth, I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth, And that no woman has,…

— William Shakespeare

As long as [Mikhail] Saakashvili is president, I will be unable to prove my innocence in Georgia. Seen in this light, there…

— Irakli Okruashvili

I did gardening and cooking and drawing and reading to try take the pressure off the music - just being eclectic and…

— Bat for Lashes

“The loss of innocence is inevitable, but the death of innocence disturbs the natural order. The death of innocence causes an imbalance…

— B.G. Bowers

She felt him tremble with the force of his need. He spoke just beneath her ear, his voice thick with tormented pleasure.…

— Lisa Kleypas

It takes mystical insight to see the beauty and innocence in each other, even when that is not what we are showing…

— Marianne Williamson

Whatever poets may write, or fools believe, of rural innocence and truth, and of the perfidy of courts, this is most undoubtedly…

— Lord Chesterfield

PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of…

— Ambrose Bierce

You get to relive your childhood when you have a baby and you see these toys and these books you read when…

— Idina Menzel

And that's what innocence is. It's simple and trusting like a child, not judgmental and committed to one narrow point of view.…

— Michael Jackson

The thing about Zen is that it pushes contradictions to their ultimate limit where one has to choose between madness and innocence.…

— Thomas Merton

What can innocence hope for, When such as sit her judges are corrupted!

— Philip Massinger

I truly believe in O.J.'s innocence, and unless they find him guilty, I will continue to support him.

— Robert Kardashian

Innocence is impossible when people have never had the choice of becoming corrupt by dominating others.

— Sheila Rowbotham

A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Look past the violence. There is a wonderful brimming spirit of innocence and fun.

— Don DeLillo

There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.

— Horace

While you're finding evidence of innocence, you also find evidence that points to other people.

— Peter Jackson

It is hard and perhaps impossible for many people to recognize the difference between innocence and naiveté.

— M. F. K. Fisher

“So little I know in my innocence. Ideals, like pebbles in a stream wash away, wash away. Life makes no sense.”

— Kristen Heitzmann

Innocent people can get into terrible jams, too. One false move and you're in over your head.

— Ben Hecht

I'm going to search for my star until I find it. It's hidden in the drawer of innocence, wrapped in a scarf…

— Michael Jackson

For I see that then I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence, once lost, is lost forever.

— Susan Hill

Sweet the young muse with love intense, Which smiles o'er sleeping innocence.

— Christopher Smart

“You will not be damned if you make love to me,” he said. “Instead, your innocence will be my salvation.”

— M.F. Hopkins

“I had no technique for dealing with him: only an overpowering, unnerving, irrational, chemical desire to be with him.”

— Elaine Dundy

Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world.

— Hector Tobar