Quotes About Innocence

Jennifer Aniston was a lovely girl, very unspoilt.

I think the secret to what Jim Henson did, ultimately, is that he understood how to cut through to the... I know this sounds corny... but the child inside of you.

I was watching Johnny Carson when I was way too young to be awake that late.

I love horror movies, and the kid is always such a big part. Kids are usually seen as so innocent, like, 'Oh, they can't do anything that creepy - they're kids!' That's what a lot of horror movies draw on, so getting to join that 'club' is really cool.

One of the great things about kids is they haven't heard a lot of the old jokes. You can get away with the corny ones.

I will be thin and pure like a glass cup. Empty. Pure as light. Music. I move my hands over my body - my shoulders, my collarbone, my rib cage, my hip bones like part of an animal skull, my small thighs. In the mirror my face is pale and my eyes look bruised. My hair is pale and thin and the light comes through. I could be a lot younger than seventeen. I could be a child still, untouched.

Man by the fall fell at the same time from his state of innocence and from his dominion over nature. Both of these losses, however, can even in this life be in some part repaired; the former by religion and faith, the latter by the arts and sciences.

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

Todo le recibe como si le esperase desde siempre, y puede mirar a los perros y a los gatos frente a frente, lo cual nosotros no hacemos nunca. El niño pasa del sueño a la vigilia dentro de una misma palabra, sin ruptura, sin trauma, y va por la casa despertando a lo que siempre estuvo dormido, hasta que él llegó.

Now my innocence begins to weigh me down.

Frank Cottrell Boyce

Children are not entirely human. There is a lot of the animal left in them. about the girl who needed her foot amputated. p170

Sweetes' li'l' feller—Everybody knows;Dunno what ter call 'im,But he's mighty lak' a rose!

Yes, but I don't think of the Teen Angel as of an age.

Nature does not loathe virtue it is unaware of its existence.

The misfortune of man is that he was once a child.

Whoever harms an innocent man, pure and faultless, his evil comes back at him like dust thrown into the wind. Sutta Nipata 662

What we often mistake for frailty in children is their openness to experience.

A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination.

I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God.

Childhood isn't just something we "get through." It's a big journey, and it's one we've all taken. Most likely, though, we've forgotten how much we had to learn along the way about ourselves and others.

The child is in me still and sometimes not so still.

We were not convicted. We would win this case if we fought it.

Verrückt, aber weise.Gefangen, aber frei.Physiker, aber unschuldig!