Quotes About Innocence

Innocent until proven guilty," Williams stated. Decker smiled. Spoken like a true American with his ass against the wall.

Roiters said, "I always felt that the kid had blood on his hands.

I would have felt that I nailed his coffin. He was a wonderful person, Peter. A sweet man with a brilliant mind. In some ways he was much more attentive to me than Yitzchak. He would never do anything criminal, Peter. Just as you wouldn't. It's not in his makeup.

We can all pretend to be cynical and scheming, but when we're faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off.

Going to the cinema is like returning to the womb; you sit there still and meditative in the darkness, waiting for life to appear on the screen. One should go to the cinema with the innocence of a fetus

I see fetal sciences in you, mummified poems, and bones of my romantic secrets and old innocence. Shall I hang you on the wall of my emotional museum, beside the dark, chill, sleeping irises of my evil? Or shall I spread you over the pines ?suffering book of my love? so you can learn about the song the nightingale offers the dawn?...

If blue is dream what then innocence? What awaits the heart if Love bears no arrows?

Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.

Los niños, como ustedes tres - dijo Raiza, y los miro con amargura - no deberian saber que existe el odio. A los niños solo habira que hablarles de amistad y ternura.

En 1875 Oscar Hertwig descubrió la fecundación del óvulo por el espermatozoide. Entonces empezamos a saber de dónde veníamos. Ni Sócrates, ni Platón, ni Aristóteles, ni Newton, ni Descartes, ni Kant, ni Mozart, ni Napoleón lo supieron: vivieron y murieron como los santos inocentes, sin saber.

Otros dos niños de pocos años se arrastraban, semidesnudos, por esta vida y el piso de tierra.

con eso de que aquí, en este país de leyes y constituciones, democrático, no es culpable nadie hasta que no lo condenen, y no lo condenan si no lo juzgan, y no lo juzgan si no lo agarran, y si lo agarran lo sueltan…

Twas a still, calm night and the moon's pale light Shone over hill and dale When friends mute with grief stood around the deathbed Of their loved, lost Lily Lyle. Heart as pure as forest lily Never knowing guile, Had its home within the bosom Of sweet Lily Lyle.

Peanut butter is the pate of childhood.

I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.

Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden.

I knew I was Little Tree, and I was happy that they loved me and wanted me. And so I slept, and I did not cry.

il muso detto shiran-kao , faccia di chi non sa nulla.

Ya no hay adultos, lo único que queda son niños de todas las edades. Escribir un libro sobre mi infancia es, pues, hablar de mí en presente. Peter Pan es amnésico.

It is children who are the true realists: they never proceed from generalities. The adult recognizes the general form in a particular example, a representative of the species, dismisses everything else and states: that's lilac, there's an ash tree, an apple tree. The child perceives individuals, personalities. He sees the unique form, and doesn't mask it with a common name or function.

C'est que, pour l'enfant, une promenade est une identité complète, un visage, une personne. Ce ne sont pas des routes qui se croisent à des carrefours, ou des sentiers sous un même ciel.

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.

I must take issue with the term 'a mere child ' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Children ask better questions than adults. "May I have a cookie?" "Why is the sky blue?" and "What does a cow say?" are far more likely to elicit a cheerful response than "Where's your manuscript?" Why haven't you called?" and "Who's your lawyer?"