Quotes About Innocence

There will always be cases that cry out to me for ultimate punishment. That is not the true issue. The pivotal question instead is whether a system of justice can be constructed that reaches only the rare, right cases, without also occasionally condemning the innocent or the undeserving.

And the man and his wife were both naked and were unashamed. (Gen. 2:25)

There may be always a time of innocence. There is never a place.

The only enemy of innocence and beauty is time.

Every time you say you don't believe in fairies, a fairy dies.

But nothing warps time quite like childhood

Being a child is such a shining gift, yet we don't know how precious it is until it's worn out and gone away.

I grew up in a time where anything was possible.

I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid.

The last time I saw you I was trying to throw thumbtacks into your cradle!

I spent so much time as a child thinking what if I was a robot, what if my mind were somewhere else? As a kid you're in the middle of all that.

I probably also wanted to be black at that particular time [ 9 years old] as well.

It was when I was the age where you can, as they say, "hear voices" without worrying that something is wrong with you. I "heard voices" all the time as a small child.

When you see Liana [Liberato], who at the time was 14, there is an inexperience and innocence that you can't act and you can't fake.

You can only be a virgin once. There can only be one first time.

Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time

I have never understood the appeal of babies, they seem such horrible creatures most of the time!

Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records.

I love 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' and I love 'Bugsy Malone.' I haven't seen 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks' in a long time, but I remember loving it as a kid.

Every time a child, any child, is born, it is new - and different; that is the wonder.

When I was a child I wanted to be a petrol pump attendant. I suppose you have all sorts of thoughts as a child and at the time I figured that it was a way to avoid doing anything like going on stage.

Most men die many times in their lives. The man we become invariably slaughters the child we once were. His knowledge of the world murders the babe's innocence. from Time Untime by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Few can remember clearly when innocence came to a sudden end, the moment at which we ask for the first time: Am I loved?

Such, such were the joys When we all, girls and boys, In our youth time were seen On the Echoing Green.