Quotes About Innocence

We want to be, when we are young, A little man. I would like to be a big child, Stronger and fairer than a man, And more lucid than a child.

Whether a man is guilty or innocent, we have to find that out by due process of law.

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.

Death row is a nightmare to serial killers and ax murderers. For an innocent man, it's a life of mental torture that the human spirit is not equipped to survive.

In an honest man there is always something of a child.

I'd rather be a boy playing with a paper plane, than to be a grown man playing with a woman's heart.

Every man remembers his childhood as a kind of mythical age, just as every nation's childhood is its mythical age.

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

The tenor of my life has been the opposite of everything that is vile, and no man can lay any such thing to my charge.

Most of their children had reached the age when they were no longer naturally endearing to anyone save their own parents; the size when their energy was more a menace than a wonder; and the level of intelligence when what would have been called innocence in a smaller child was infuriating rudeness. A honeybee cruising for nectar is pretty despite its implicit threat, but the same behavior in a hornet three times larger makes one glance about for some handy swatting material.

In any soul, the Condemned Man argued, was the ability to create a whole world, as big and variegated as the one that he and the Magistrate lived in. But if this was true of the Innocent, it was true of the Condemned Man as well, and so he should not—no one should ever—be put to death.

had led him into the business of small-town marijuana dealing, which must have seemed dark and dangerous at the time, but that now, in these days of crystal meth, seemed as wholesome as running a lemonade stand.

Sometimes we call those girls sluts. Do you think she had a boyfriend when she was eight?

I used to like the foods that come in abstract shapes: chicken nuggets, Fruit Roll-Ups, hot dogs.

I'm asking for simplicity, for purity and ease of choice and no pressure. I'm asking for Preschool.

Jamie Smart has gone home and Adrian sits on the curb at the edge of the field, the bike propped against a lamppost. He can see the back garden. He's drinking a can of Fanta. He's feeling pretty good. He's six years old. A van pulls up. The worried-looking driver gets out and jogs across the quiet road. He said, "Mate—what's your name?

your soul is stained with the blood of the innocent, feel their pain

SHE WILL GATHER ROSES This little girl Was born to gather roses, Wild roses. This little girl Was born to glean the rice, Wild rice. This little girl Was born to pick strawberries, Blueberries, elderberries, All the wild berries. This little girl Was born to gather roses, Wild roses. Tsimshian

World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire--

That's how it's always been: I was always in the clear so long as I was truly guilty. But the minute my motives were honest someone would finger me.

Yet, there is something about a person's eyes. . . they speak their own language, from the heart and soul. They speak love, grief, hate, innocence, and guilt. They speak the truth even as the person is lying.

The summer of '63, Keith reflected, had been called the last summer of American innocence

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