Innocent Quotes

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America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace… — James Ellroy
I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it… — Arthur C. Clarke
The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all… — Washington Irving
What an unbearable creature he must have been in those days--and yet in those days he had been comparatively innocent. That was another mystery: it… — Graham Greene
Methought I heard a voice cry, Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep, - the innocent sleep; Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of… — William Shakespeare
When we are green, still half-created, we believe that our dreams are rights, that the world is disposed to act in our best interests, and… — Tobias Wolff
But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent… — Agatha Christie
Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is… — Khalil Gibran
Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I feel moderately bad about this whole thing. On the one hand, I am providing myself with urgently required survival skills. Other lessons in this… — Audrey Niffenegger
Jesus Christ was innocent too,' said Svejk, 'and all the same they crucified him. No one anywhere has ever worried about a man being innocent.… — Jaroslav HaÅ¡ek
Don't ever lose that innocent laughter, don't let time take that away — John Mellencamp
Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this tiny world by… — Virginia Woolf
Not all games are innocent. Some come dangerously close to cruelty. — Elie Wiesel
Indeed, religion allows people to imagine that their concerns are moral when they are highly immoral - that is, when pressing these concerns inflicts unnecessary… — Sam Harris
No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you… — Dean Koontz
I would be mute, beautiful, changless as the earth for you. I would be your memory, without age, always innocent, always waiting in the King's… — Patricia A. McKillip
You don’t need no gun control, you know what you need? We need some bullet control. Men, we need to control the bullets, that’s right.… — Chris Rock
No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations… — Anne Rice
From the night Buddy Willard kissed me and said I must go out with a lot of boys, he made me feel I was much… — Sylvia Plath
I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is 'Abortion', because it is a war against the child... A direct killing of the innocent child,… — Mother Teresa
And that's what innocence is. It's simple and trusting like a child, not judgmental and committed to one narrow point of view. If you are… — Michael Jackson
We are born one time only, we can never start a new life equipped with the experience we've gained from the previous one. We leave… — Milan Kundera
When you see such photos, you can't help but wonder at just how sweet and sad and innocent all moments of life are rendered by… — Douglas Coupland
There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But… — George Bernard Shaw

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