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Quotes About Innocence

I tried not to seem like a kid who'd just been offered a chance to go up to the front of the plane and see the cockpit. Sure, I said. That sounds neat.
~ Atul Gawande
Og la oss ikke anklage Herren om vi ser små uskyldige barn lide. Ingen kan vite hvorfor, men den guddommelige rettferdighet lar oss ane at det er på grunn av forbrytelser begått før ankomsten til denne verden.
~ August Strindberg
As a young child I had Santa and Jesus all mixed up. I could identify Coke or Pepsi with just one sip, but I could not tell you for sure why they strapped Santa to a cross. Had he missed a house? Had a good little girl somewhere in the world not received the doll he'd promised her, making the father angry?" (p.3)
~ Augusten Burroughs
As a young child I had Santa and Jesus all mixed up. I could identify Coke or Pepsi with just one sip, but I could not tell you for sure why they strapped Santa to a cross. Had he missed a house? Had a good little girl somewhere in the world not received the doll he'd promised her, making the father angry?
~ Augusten Burroughs
It's not that I was an outright nitwit of a child.
~ Augusten Burroughs
I would have been an excellent member of the Brady Bunch. I would have been Shaun, the well-behaved blond boy who caused no trouble and helped Alice in the kitchen, then trimmed the split ends off Marcia's hair. I would have not only washed Tiger, but then conditioned his fur. And I would have cautioned Jan against that tacky bracelet that caused the girls to lose the house-of-cards-building contest. *
~ Augusten Burroughs
Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.
~ Ayn Rand
There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.
~ Ayn Rand
Few were innocent aside from those who had been hanged.
~ Stacy Schiff
The rest of the day they spent blowing soap bubbles from the veranda.
~ Stanis?aw Lem
He began thinking about the innocence of machines, about how man had endowed them with intelligence and, in doing so, had made them an accomplice of his mad adventures. About how the myth of the golem—the machine that rebelled against its creator—was a lie, a fiction invented by the guilty for the sake of self-exoneration.
~ Stanis?aw Lem
Given the deeply rooted Christian suspicion of sexuality, however, the new view of women as intrinsically asexual improved their reputation. Whereas women had once been considered snares of the devil, they were now viewed as sexual innocents whose purity should inspire all decent men to control their own sexual impulses and baser appetites.
~ Stephanie Coontz
I want to stay young and pure and free, unstained by the sin of Eve.
~ Stephanie Hemphill
I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't.
~ Stephen Chbosky
And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't.
~ Stephen Chbosky
My sister was the one who told me where babies come from. My sister was also the one who laughed when I immediately asked her where babies go to.
~ Stephen Chbosky
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I used to listen to it all the time when I was little and thinking about grown-up things. I would go to my bedroom window and stare at my reflection in the glass and the trees behind it and just listen to the song for hours. I decided then that when I met someone I thought was as beautiful as the song, I should give it to that person. And I didn't mean beautiful on the outside. I meant beautiful in all ways.
~ Stephen Chbosky
That scared me a lot. It scared me how much it scared me. Being punished for something you did not do. Or being an innocent victim. It's just something that I never want to experience.
~ Stephen Chbosky
Selbst Monster waren liebenswert, wenn sie klein waren.
~ Stephen Chbosky
There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I though that some days those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't.
~ Stephen Chbosky
Even monsters are adorable when they are little.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I think he was especially happy because I used to kiss this boy in the neighborhood a lot when I was very little, and even though the psychiatrist said it was very natural for little boys and girls to explore things like that, I think my father was afraid anyway. I guess that's natural, but I'm not sure why.
~ Stephen Chbosky
My mom told me that when I was little, I called them "Candy Grandma" and "Cookies Grandma." I also called pizza crust "pizza bones." I don't know why I'm telling you this.
~ Stephen Chbosky