Innocent Quotes

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There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people. — Howard Zinn
I grew up in Detroit. I was a teen father. I lived on welfare for three years. I have a brother serving life in prison,… — Michael Eric Dyson
Hollywood is in somewhat the same position as Las Vegas these days. It went from being the capital of sin to Disneyland, and now it's… — Hanna Rosin
a cloud-congested caul that is alternately red, orange, vermilion, purple. Sometimes the clouds break apart in great, slow rafts, letting through beams of innocent yellow… — Stephen King
Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky and really meant… — Jack Kerouac
I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old,… — Philip Pullman
If only it were possible to love without injury – fidelity isn’t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her.… — Graham Greene
I would assign every lie a color: yellow when they were innocent, pale blue when they sailed over you like the sky, red because I… — Steve Martin
There was something appealing in thinking of a character with a secret life that her author knew nothing about. Slipping off while the author's back… — Karen Joy Fowler
I ask you, is it the fig tree's fault that it's not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do to… — Yann Martel
And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled sleep. — Albert Camus
Birds are the last of the dinosaurs. Tiny velociraptors with wings. Devouring defenseless wiggly things and, and nuts, and fish, and, and other birds. They… — Neil Gaiman
So here we have it. The equivocating distinction between civilisation and savagery, between the "massacre of innocent people" or, if you like, "a clash of… — Arundhati Roy
By giving the love act a name, if only an innocent little word like, "it," he paved the way for other words, words that would… — Milan Kundera
One of the injustices of the world was that it was so easy to make the innocent and caring ones happy with so little. — Alexandra Ripley
Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters. To beguile the time, Look like the time; bear welcome in… — William Shakespeare
I'm not blessed, or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job to do, and I do it. Listen: even as we're talking, I'm there… — Neil Gaiman
But truth be told, I'm not as dour-looking as I would like. I'm stuck with this round, sweetie-pie face, tiny heart-shaped lips, the daintiest dimples,… — Sarah Vowell
However passionate, sinning, and rebellious the heart hidden in the tomb, the flowers growing over it peep serenely at us with their innocent eyes; they… — Ivan Turgenev
if you'd ever had a grown-up daughter you'd know that by comparison a bucking steer is easy to manage. And as to knowing what goes… — W. Somerset Maugham
I'm not...' Angharad began, but then she thought. Not what? Not a bad person? Perhaps. But had she never known anger? Never held unkind thoughts?… — Charles de Lint
For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension… — Tom Stoppard
To see her is a picture- To hear her is a tune- To know her an Intemperance As innocent as June- To know her not-Affliction-… — Emily Dickinson
That disapproving look was back in her eyes. Her teacher face. The one that could make you squirm from ten paces, even if you were… — Laurell K. Hamilton

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