Quotes About Innocence

Genius is childhood recovered at will.

Genius is merely childhood recollected at will.

She is unaware of Hell and Purgatory And when the time comes for her to enter The black Night, she will look into the face of Death As a new-born child,—without hatred or remorse.

They have the divine eyes of little girls Who are amazed and laugh at everything that gleams.

Nuori tyttö, mörkö, hirviö, taiteen murhaaja. Nuori tyttö niin kuin hän todellisuudessa on. Pieni hölmö ja pikku paskiainen; kertakaikkisen typeryyden ja kertakaikkisen turmeltuneisuuden sekoitus. Nuoressa tytössä on kaikki sakilaisen ja koulupojan viheliäiset piirteet.

La génie n'est que l'enfance retrouvée à volonté.

They looked as if nothing had ever touched them--all well-mothered, protected, with a soft sheen of contentment. None of them had ever been in jail, or worked hard with their hands, or even gotten a traffic ticket. Skimmed-milk jollies, the whole bunch.

I met a genius on the train today about 6 years old, he sat beside me and as the train ran down along the coast we came to the ocean and then he looked at me and said, it's not pretty.

Prazan džep ima neku primjesu romantizma samo kada si jako mlad.

we were never children like your children. We do not understand love songs like your inamorata.

D??ar? ç?karken kolum Bernadette'in belindeydi. Liseli bir k?z? and?r?yordu hâlâ. -uzun saçlar, ipek, hassas ve seksi dudaklar. Ä°çinde bulunduÄŸu cehennemi gözlerine bakt???nda fark edebiliyordun ancak.

Like Las Casas, Bancroft believed that Indians had existed in societies without change—except that Bancroft regarded this timelessness as an indication of sloth, not innocence.

Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.

Children don't judge their own lives. Normal for them is what's laid before them day by day. Judgment comes later.

Luce, sitting near the back, all of this new to her, likes to believe her children are nothing like a pair of copperheads amid a field of sweet brown mice.

around which pigs and barefoot children grunted in loving communion of dirt.

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

Lawyers, I suppose were once children.

He looked like an angelic little boy who had been kicked out of his orphanage for failing to take part in group masturbation.

How could I have missed the opportunity to pop pills with my sister who was purer than a Quaker?

In her experience, dead children, unlike dead adults, always looked as if they were sleeping - though she understood that there was an element of wishful thinking whenever she had come across corpses that young.

It's girls whose ages are from 13 to 22 who are going astray, even as young as 9 years; deceived, betrayed, led away by the promise of making a fortune selling themselves.

Randy held out the koosh. "What is it?" "I have no idea," Donna said. "Your asshole scrubber?

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster. —JAMES BALDWIN