Quotes About Innocence

I would dream that this coffin had wings, and it would fly around my bed at night, and so it was a dream that happened a lot, and that's what frightened me.

When I talk of primordial innocence, I hear it in Sufi music with the nay flute. I see it in Coptic icons, in most traditional art, particularly art of the American Indian. I find the texts extraordinarily beautiful and very childlike and very simple. I've been particularly interested in American Indian texts.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

Twentysomethings thank me for their childhood... SpongeBob lives at the bottom of the sea, but he brings a lot of great stuff to the surface.

Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me.

People might think I'm very hard, what with my black make-up, my hair over my eyes, etc. My innocence didn't always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don't have anymore. I'm inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don't think daily life is always great. It protects me.

I did a commercial when I was, like, 5 or 6 years old for... what was it called?... Cabbage Patch Kids! That was the first thing I ever did. Little bit embarrassing.

The first thing I did was a print ad for Century Plaza. I was five.

The first thing I remember writing was a poem - about a princess who sat on a hill and sang all day - when I was eight.

The most important thing in life is having a child. Nothing is more special than a child.

I have the luxury of being a little boy... To me, the most important thing in life is to be a human being. Second is acting.

In the real world, some defense lawyers never have an innocent client in their whole career.

As a nation, it's time to put politics aside and do the right thing to protect innocent little babies.

The early seasons of 'The Simpsons' had a great deal of heart. That's what I'm trying to pull from, the kind of stuff that goes straight to kids' hearts. When they're watching, they don't necessarily know why they love something.

You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.

Innocence as we understand it in our culture is very theatrical. The flip side is, if you're charming enough, you can get away with anything.

My mum says I never had tantrums. I had elongated and very complicated tea parties in my cot, and I was sort of talking, I guess, quite young, and I would say, 'Oh, how lovely to see you, do come in!' I'd have these theatrical tea parties by myself with my imaginary friends.

Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.

Now, would you do something for me before I kiss you good-night?" "What do you need, Noah?" "I need you to look behind the shower curtain and under the bed. Then lock me out and put the trunk against the door." "Noah, did you have monsters under the bed when you were little?" He touched her nose. "No. Because I checked." *

She's beautiful, isn't she?" He put an arm around her shoulders and laughed. "Shelby, babies are like puppies, there's no such thing as an ugly one.

I know, I know, but there was something about the pains we had as kids, the melodrama and agony over things that didn't really matter but mattered so much just the same….

She was everything he avoided—youth, innocence, inexperience. And she had everything he wanted—guts, wisdom and compassion.

Sitting there on the swing set, in her bare feet and blue dress, her hair slipping out of its ponytail, she was so gorgeous that it hurt.

That's not to say we were totally innocent of any public displays of affection; there was some hand-holding and the occasional hurried good-bye kiss on even days, when we had different sixth periods.