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Quotes About Innocence

Your plan isn't going to work." He was all innocence. "I have a plan?" "Oh, please," she scoffed. "You're going to try to wear me down in hopes that eventually I'll give in." "I would never dream of it." "I'm sure you dream of quite a bit more," she muttered. -Sophie & Benedict
~ Julia Quinn
An indictment is not a conviction.
~ Howard Coble
I saw my first indoor bathroom when I was 9.
~ Glen Campbell
Most kids have an innate feeling of the sense of God and spirit. But either we forget about it over time, or we're scared away from it.
~ Corbin Bernsen
The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals.
~ Clint Eastwood
There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Innocence is always unsuspicious.
~ Joseph Joubert
Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
~ Samuel Butler
Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.
~ Mason Cooley
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
~ A. E. Housman
'Good Times' is a story about the loss of innocence, how adults are responsible for their actions but children aren't.
~ Lynda Barry
Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.
~ John Shirley
I think there's an innocence to me.
~ Krista Allen
I feel I lost my innocence to cancer.
~ Delta Goodrem
I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence.
~ Donna Tartt
I just feel like every kid is growing up too fast and they're seeing too much. Everything is about sex, and that's fine for me. I'm not saying I don't like it. But I don't think it should be everywhere, where kids are exposed to everything sexual. Because they have to have some innocence; there's just no innocence left.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
You do not have to incriminate yourself. But once you assert your innocence, and once you say you didn't do anything wrong, you can't then use the Fifth Amendment to say, 'I'm not answering questions.'
~ Rush Limbaugh
I've been really lucky when it comes to casting kids, and I don't particularly like child actors. Too often, they just show up, and they've had whatever real innocence that's in a child just beaten out of them. They start to perform for you, and you can just see it coming. It's no good.
~ Jeff Nichols
The ten-block radius around my house in Brooklyn has been my whole world. When I walk on the street, I feel like I've rediscovered my childhood innocence. I love it because nothing has changed.
~ Lucas Hedges
I think it's so completely bizarre and arrogant for anyone to ever think that they could lose their innocence, because that implies that they have some sense, some idea of what's going on, and no one has any idea what's going on.
~ Andrew W.K.
I represented a man on death row whose lawyers had spent all of eight hours looking into his claim of innocence. I met men whose lawyers had never looked into their backgrounds.
~ Zephyr Teachout
Studio chief Winfield Sheehan wanted me to remain a little girl. If I lost my innocence, he said, it would show in my eyes.
~ Shirley Temple
I do think there is a link between the accidental art the sciences produce and the deliberate art the artist creates, but I can't help feeling that the innocence of the accidental art of science has a power and curious beauty that artists are hard-pressed to match.
~ Cornelia Parker
I truly believe in O.J.'s innocence, and unless they find him guilty, I will continue to support him.
~ Robert Kardashian