Quotes About Innocence

Experience had taught me that innocence seldom utters outraged shrikes. Guilt does. Innocence is a mighty shield, and the man or woman covered by it, is much more likely to answer calmly: 'My life is blameless. Look into it, if you like, for you will find nothing.' That is the tone of innocence.

If you could hear, at every jolt, the bloodCome gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cudOf vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—My friend, you would not tell with such high zestTo children ardent for some desperate glory,The old Lie: Dulce et decorum estPro patria mori.

Who cares for his causes of complaint? Are you to break your heart to set his mind at ease? No man under heaven deserves these sacrifices from us women. Men! They are the enemies of our innocence and our peace - they drag us away from our parents' love and our sisters' friendship - they take us body and soul to themselves, and fasten our helpless lives to theirs as they chain up a dog to his kennel. And what does the best of them give us in return?

I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.

A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.

White. Like a clean piece of paper, like uncarved ivory, all is white when the story begins.

L'amore aveva lastricato questa famiglia di cadaveri sui quali sgambettava un numero esponenziale di marmocchi, e tutte queste donne erano pronte a ricominciare da zero, con il cuore puro, a incantarsi per l'improvviso rossore sulle guance incavate di Thérèse, identificato immediatamente come il segno dell'amore, quando io avevo sperato in una innocente tubercolosi..

Vous ne vous rendez pas compte, monsieur, j'ai douze ans et demi, et je n'ai rien fait.

The children became their reciprocal angels: readers.

Signorine, non è certo sotto le specie del vocabolario e della sintassi che la Letteratura inizia a sedurci. Ricordate semplicemente come le Lettere entrano nella nostra vita. Nella più tenera età, appena non ci viene più cantata la canzone che fa sorridere e addormentare il neonato, si apre l'era dei racconti. Il bambino li beve come prima beveva il latte. Pretende il seguito e la ripetizione dell'incanto; è un pubblico implacabile ed eccelso.

Small children cannot say what they want to be later because they don't really understand what later means.7 So, like shrewd politicians, they ignore the question they are asked and answer the question they can.

uno viaja siempre con el niño que fue.

babies don't know anything but nipples and lullabies. they splash out looks of wonder on anybody whether they merit it or not.

babies don't know anything but nipples and lullabies.

I was fifteen then, too young to fall in-love. Or maybe it is only then, with dew of childhood still in my eyes, that I was capable of such love. I will never know, of course.

O ?emu još govore njeni paragrafi, prazne rubrike koje je ispisivala nevidljivim mastilom mašta de?aka?

One moment you are young And full of innocent dreams. The next moment you look into a mirror To see eyes filled with years of pain Glaring back at you Swimming in their own horror.

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Why are children so much smarter than adults?

Many children use an alternative vocabulary for complex disease names. Hence, some say "smiling mighty Jesus" in place of spinal meningitis or "Luke and Leia" instead of leukemia.

Brigid O'Shaughnessy: "I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know." Sam Spade "You know, that's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere

I cannot tell you how many quiet mornings I have spent sitting around hotel rooms and furnished apartments in the United States and Mexico, smoking cigarettes, plunking the guitar, and watching Perry Mason --telling myself, "Well, at least I don't have a day job. And there is nothing wrong with that. I am not guilty of anything. Perry would see that in a minute.

Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.

I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.