Quotes About Innocence

... pure and intelligent women can be deceived and misled by the baser sort, their very innocence and experience making them credulous and the helpless tools of the guilty and bold.

As an actor, you always want to reach back to being a child and having the spontaneity and the imagination of a child.

When I was a child, I pretended that I had my own cooking show. I would stand at the kitchen counter with an empty bowl and spoon and talk in a silly voice, explaining the concoction I was creating.

I have a soft spot for children.

I feel really lucky that I grew up pretending to be a spy for my whole childhood.

Using flimsy evidence to spy on innocent citizens could very well be a crime.

Former CIA employee Joseph Weisberg's 'An Ordinary Spy' may attract attention for how much it redacts - whether by authorial choice or by CIA design - but its power comes from the growing frustration Weisberg's fictional alter ego feels at a system designed to betray seeming innocents in the most casual and cruel manner possible.

The music I heard growing up, since there was no TV or cinema or record covers, I didn't know if it was black, white, hip, square, male, female... whatever. I'd hear melodies and things and got intrigued on that level.

I'm a little kid from St. Louis, Missouri, on the inside.

I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.

The first book I ever bought for myself was 'One Fish Two Fish' by Dr. Seuss. My favourite page shows two children carrying an enormous glass jar up some stairs in the dark. In the jar is a tusked beflippered creature floating in brine.

The idea of licking stamps seemed great fun for me.

I have memories of the time when I was younger and when I believed in Santa Claus, which was the best part of Christmas. Back then, I wrote to Santa every year, hoping that my mom would post the letter with a stamp to the North Pole!

If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent.

Do you remember you shot a seagull? A man came by chance, saw it and destroyed it, just to pass the time.

A truly great man never puts away the simplicity of a child.

I woke early like a condemned man to the naivety of birdsong.

Maimonides taught that it is better that 10 criminals go free than let one innocent man be executed. The Innocence Project represents that point of view.

Kids are beautiful, man. And they know much more than grownups think they know. Kids are just perfect people until grownups get their hands on them.

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.

Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.

Men are often bad, but babies never are.

It is better to let 100 criminals go free than to imprison 1 innocent man.

Coonskin caps, Yankee bats, the Hound Dog man's big start. The A-bomb fears, Annette had ears, I lusted in my heart.