“The others cast themselves down upon the fragrant grass, but Frodo stood awhile still lost in wonder. It seemed to him that… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
I realise that I had the best of serious picture journalism. There was an innocence in our approach, especially in the 1950s… — Eve Arnold Copy Share Image
“A breeze ruffled the neat hedges of Privet Drive, which lay silent and tidy under the inky sky, the very last place… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“...I'm a fool. I expect too much, then I'm angry because nothing ever works out the way I want. When I was… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
“The flowered trim on the hems [of the dress] seemed superfluous, even frivolous, but at the same time it comforted her, as… — Gael Baudino Copy Share Image
“I don’t have a philosophy: I have senses... If I talk about Nature, it’s not because I know what it is, But… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“Though I myself have come to this safe harbour – if safety can be found in this life – yet I mourn… — K.W. Jeter Copy Share Image
People say you're born innocent, but it's not true. You inherit all kinds of things that you can do nothing about. You… — Hugo Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Still, the facts are always there. Every teacher, every parent, every priest who serves this kind of neighborhood knows what these inequalities… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
I am sorry they began their deliberations by so abominable a precedent as that of tying up the tongues of their members.… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Zen says that if you drop knowledge - and within knowledge everything is included; your name, your identity, everything, because this has… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
No acquisitions of guilt can compensate the loss of that solid inward comfort of mind, which is the sure companion of innocence… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Well, I'm pretty anti legends - I just don't think they're useful. So that certainly wouldn't be my intention. But will it… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
Small crimes always precede great crimes. Whoever has been able to transgress the limits set by law may afterwards violate the most… — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
What I liked about it is in the world of children, there are very, very different rules and a kind of naivete… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Many Americans have lost confidence in the way our criminal courts assess guilt and innocence. Whatever one thinks of the verdicts, the… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
“There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well… — Christine M. Korsgaard Copy Share Image
When I talk of primordial innocence, I hear it in Sufi music with the nay flute. I see it in Coptic icons,… — John Tavener Copy Share Image
Nor turned I ween Adam from his fair spouse, nor Eve the rites Mysterious of connubial love refused: Whatever hypocrites austerely talk… — John Milton Copy Share Image
But the trouble with sainthood these days is the robe-and-halo imagery that gets stuck onto it." Carl got that brooding look again.… — Diane Duane Copy Share Image
“Adults have the benefit of experience and know the trick will work as long as the technique is correct. When we “grow… — Alberto Alvaro Ríos Copy Share Image
“By innocence I swear, and by my youth, I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth. And that no woman has,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Childhood has been idealised as a lost garden paradise to which we can never return. We are excluded from this world of… — Loretta Lux Copy Share Image
It doesn’t make sense, it’s not logical, it’s not a safe profession or a smart profession if you wanna make money or… — Santino Fontana Copy Share Image
I can sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a… — Idina Menzel Copy Share Image
If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“Shocked?” Juliet queried, the light pink tint on her cheeks the only telling sign of her discomfort with the conversation. He nodded.… — Rose Gordon Copy Share Image
I read Norman Lock’s The Boy in His Winter with delight and amazement. Styled in the vernacular of a rapidly changing America,… — David Oshinsky Copy Share Image
“She clapped her hands and murmured, "Blue sky, blue eyes," as if it amused her. While we snuggled down there out of… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
By the laws of rectitude accused Persons, however atrocious their offences, are allowed to make their defence, and by a verdict of… — Judith Sargent Murray Copy Share Image
I learned that it is better, a thousandfold , for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
We must face the fact that we are on the brink of times when man may be able to magnify his intellectual… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
In April 1917 the illusion of isolation was destroyed, America came to the end of innocence, and of the exuberant freedom of… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“Paths of the mirror" I And above all else, to look with innocence. As if nothing was happening, which is true. II… — Alejandra Pizarnik Copy Share Image
“For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. Of course, they have memories. Of… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“Children lose their innocence piece by piece. The layers are carved away until our hearts have been exposed and polished into an… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes; the distinctions which set one man so much above another are very little perceived… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The only education in grief that any of us ever gets is a crash course. Until Caroline had died I had belonged… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
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![“It doesn’t make sense, it’s not logical, it’s not a safe profession or a smart profession if you wanna make money or have a living or have a family. So the fact that we keep doing [theatre] means we’re getting something from it that is almost childlike in its innocence.” quote by Santino Fontana](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cec/santino-fontana-61079_childlike_it-doesn-t-make-sense-it-s-not-logical-i_1488211.jpg)
