Quotes About Innocence

Betty, who had found an old battered doll, was sitting quietly in the corner and industriously endeavoring to pick its one eye out

don't grow up to fast, darling. Age is inevitable, but if you nuture a childlike heart, you'll never ever grow old.

Don't grow up too fast, Darling. Age is inevitable, but if you nurture a childlike heart, you'll never, ever grow old.

I was like a docile lamb led to slaughter. I didn't know that they had devised plots against me. Jeremiah 11:19

It's because a country-western song can start you out at a family picnic eating buttermilk-fried chicken and watermelon on your great-grandmother's quilt, with butterflies flitting about, and before it ends, your daddy's gone to prison and your momma's run off with the preacher and your little brother's blowing butterflies to dust with a BB gun.

As a citizen - or even a TV legal analyst - am I required to presume innocence, i.e., that the authorities arrest the wrong person in every case? Not a chance.

America before the 1960s was a pretty innocent place. We were the Lone Ranger galloping off to the rescue of the needy and the oppressed of the world, and we could get things done.

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.

As parents know, little children are, by their nature, without guile. They speak the thoughts of their minds without reservation or hesitance as we have learned as parents when they embarrass us at times. They do not deceive. They set an example of being without guile.

I can say without reservation that I do not remember a day in our childhood without laughter.

Most of the characters in 'The Little Rascals' were living in poverty, but they decided to focus on the joy of being a kid: the humor, the heart, the resilience.

My little siblings keep me grounded. I'm a kid at heart.

I had to always decide - am I playing Will in the scene, or is it the monster, or is it a little bit of both? I had to show two different sides of one person in a scene. They were definitely very opposites, because Will is this sweet little innocent sort of kid, and the monster is fierce; he's intense. You really have to show both sides.

When I was 4 years old I used to draw on the sidewalk with broken brick.

High school is cool, especially that first-love mentality. That's what 'Sierra Burgess' captures is, like, his first moment of love. That's what I love. I like that innocence.

My signature scent is naivete.

When I was eight, I told my best friend I got a Hilary Duff autograph, but I just signed it myself.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

When my daughter was young, she thought all electronic signs were mine.

I'm very similar to the way I was when I was 5.

Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child.

Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.

Innocence revived is the freshening rain of life on dead and wintered fields.

Stone reckoned that most of the innocent people in prison had been sent there by police officers and prosecutors who reasoned that these victims were, after all, probably guilty of something, and better a conviction of an innocent person than no conviction at all.