Quotes About Innocence

Behind me on the road through the wasteland lies the corpse of an imprisoned child.

He was a good kid and a good destroyerman for the same reason: he was always looking out for someone else. At one point LeClerq had had the presence of mind to train his forty-millimeter mount on a spread of torpedoes bubbling toward Sprague's carriers. Johnny LeClerq was the very picture of wholesome blond American innocence, considerate of the enlisted men, devoted to the Navy, and meticulous in his duties.

Thomas hated the people who'd taken this poor, innocent kid form his family. He hated them with a passion he didn't know a human could feel. He wanted them dead, tortured, even. He wanted Chuck to be happy. But happiness had been ripped form their lives. Love had been ripped from their lives.

Her sweet little cry like that of angel among demons

I was just a kid," Thomas said, surprising himself.

A distant, faded memory of sucking on pennies as a kid popped into his head.

If you really did help design the Maze, Tommy, it's not your fault. You're a kid—you can't help what they forced you to do.

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 to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.

All young animals are appealing but the lamb has been given an unfair share of charm.

It seemed to him that the little Manchu had never looked so radiant. She gave him a most charming smile, but her eyes were all for the boy.

Sometimes kids just act impulsively, but it's because we have strong feelings, not because we're trying to make trouble. —Bobby Goodspeed

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Her voice went soft and sweet: it seemed to be luring some small child into a gas chamber with promises of candy.

So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!

If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!

When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

I do believe in fairies! I do! I do!

When you're five years old, trust is another name for love.

Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.

I can talk to fish!" Angel said happily, water dripping off her long, skinny body. "Ask one over for dinner," Fang said, joining us.

Something died in the American people on November 22, 1963—call it idealism, innocence or the quest for moral excellence. It is the transformation of human beings which is the authentic reason and motive for the Kennedy murder.

passed—Snoopy, Ronald McDonald

I was floating around up there like a feather, a trick from early childhood that was fading as I got older.

But still I was young.