Quotes About Innocence

There are just so many funny kids and teenagers. They're just not aware of how funny they are.

There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.

'Leave It to Beaver,' which ran from 1957 until 1963, was one of the strangest, sweetest, most distinctive domestic sitcoms of television's celebrated Golden Age.

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

Kids make the best audiences. They're like drunk people - they don't mind telling you exactly what they think.

The child asks, 'Why don't I have this happiness thing you're telling me about?'

When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, 'Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?' And she would look at me and say, 'No honey, I don't know what you're talking about.'

Phillip Schofield has always been my primary crush. Sure, I danced in front of the telly when Shakin' Stevens was on Top of the Pops, but that was because my rudimentary grasp of how telly works made this five-year-old think she could be seen by him. So that was less love, more showing off.

For a child everything is wonderful, be it going to a fair or visting a temple with parents. This happiness and enthusiasm needs to reflect in my writing.

Growing up, I watched a lot of Shirley Temple movies.

I never go to temples, but when I see a child, I see God in them.

I absolutely love Shirley Temples. I don't know why, but ever since I was young, it's always been my favorite thing to drink!

It is better that ten guilty men go free than one innocent man be wrongfully convicted.

Es ist besser, wenn zehn Schuldige davonkommen, als dass ein Unschuldiger verfolgt wird.‹«

William Blackstone stated, 'It is better that ten guilty men go free than one innocent man be wrongfully convicted.

than that one innocent suffer. —SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE

It is not a system without faults, but as my fellow jurist William Blackstone stated, 'It is better that ten guilty men go free than one innocent man be wrongfully convicted.

It is not a system without faults, but as my fellow jurist William Blackstone stated, 'It is better that ten guilty men go free than one innocent man be wrongfully convicted.' "Mr.

Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer. —SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE, Commentaries on the Laws of England

First there's the children's house of make believe,Some shattered dishes underneath a pine,The playthings in the playhouse of the children.Weep for what little things could make them glad.

It's harder to talk about, but what I really, really, really want for Christmas is just this: I want to be 5 years old again for an hour. I want to laugh a lot and cry a lot. I want to be picked or rocked to sleep in someone's arms, and carried up to be just one more time. I know what I really want for Christmas: I want my childhood back. People who think good thoughts give good gifts.

What I notice is that every adult or child I give a new set of Crayolas to goes a little funny. The kids smile, get a glazed look on their faces, pour the crayons out, and just look at them for a while....The adults always get the most wonderful kind of sheepish smile on their faces--a mixture of delight and nostalgia and silliness. And they immediately start telling you about all their experiences with Crayolas.

That church teaches that infinite innocence was sacrificed for me! I do not want it! I do not wish to go to heaven unless I can settle by the books, and go there because I ought to go there. I have said, and I say again, I do not wish to be a charity angel. I have no ambition to become a winged pauper of the skies.

People liked to talk; there were very few exceptions, the question was how you made them do it. Some were amenable to alcohol; others liked a spotlight; and then there were those who merely needed proximity to another conscious human being. A subsection of humanity would become loquacious only on one favorite subject; it might be their own innocence, or somebody else's guilt.