Quotes About Innocence

By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd; The sports of children satisfy the child.

I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.

It is Australian innocence to love The naturally excessive and be proud Of a thoroughbred gelding who ran fast.

The greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

Resistance is weakness and fear masquerading as strength. What the ego sees as weakness is your Being in its purity, innocence, and power. What it sees as strength is weakness.

Where'd the days go, when all we did was play? And the stress that we were under wasn't stress at all just a run and a jump into a harmless fall

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.

Children are all foreigners.

I think I was very nave early on, but that also meant I didn't know what couldn't be done.

Sport, at its best, at its most human, is able to inspire an innocence and joy that is unique to each of us.

A young man—we can sketch his portrait at a dash. Imagine to yourself a Don Quixote of eighteen; a Don Quixote without his corselet, without his coat of mail, without his cuisses; a Don Quixote clothed in a woolen doublet, the blue color of which had faded into a nameless shade between lees of wine and a heavenly azure; face long and brown;

He had frequently called for capital punishment on criminals, and owing to his irresistible eloquence they had been condemned, and yet the slightest shadow of remorse had never clouded Villefort's brow, because they were guilty; at least, he believed so; but here was an innocent man whose happiness he had destroyed. In this case he was not the judge, but the executioner.

Cornelius was stretched on his couch, with broken wrists and crushed fingers. He had not confessed a crime of which he was not guilty; and now, after three days of agony, he once more breathed freely, on being informed that the judges, from whom he had expected death, were only condemning him to exile.

los pobres muchachos eran tan felices que sólo pensaban en sí mismos, y no tenían ojos más que para aquel hermoso cielo que los bendecía.

He then closed his eyes as children do in order that they may see in the resplendent night of their own imagination more stars than are visible in the firmament;

I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words

You think she's pretty, you ought to see my slingshot!

Only her death could prove her innocence; a circle of impossible, deathly judgement.

Your grand daughter may not be looking for trouble, but trouble is looking for her.

the eldest who had the misfortune of being too beautiful and had a far off look in her eyes. Madame Cohen had seen what could happen to girls like that, they were picked off like fruit on a tree, devoured by blackbirds.

He's so kindhearted no dog has ever barked at him. No child has ever cried in front of him. No bee has ever tried to sting him.

Let her wake as when she close her eyes. That was all Jenny asked for. That was all she begged for on this March night that was perfectly equal to the day, unique in all the season. Let her be the same sweet girl, unburdened by gifts or sorrow.

One of the cruelest children had glued a nametag to the mouse's back. Sali had been scrawled in crude letters, but Sally took not the slightest pleasure in the misspelling of her name. She had cried over the little curled-up body, with its tiny whiskers and perfect paws, but when her teacher had asked what was wrong, she'd only shrugged, as though she had lost the power of speech.