Quotes About Innocence

I think the international community should unite to fight such inhuman phenomena as terror attacks and the murder of totally innocent people.

Children are weird. I was going to say 'most children,' but I think this a rare universal law.

It's hard to think of another body of work that is more universally beloved - I don't think I've ever met someone who has encountered 'Calvin and Hobbes' without falling for them.

I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.

Everybody is probably guilty of something. I'm sure that if anyone looked into my heart long enough, they could say, you know, 'Bill had some unkind thoughts back in second grade.'

I never sympathise with the accused unless there's a chance the accused is not guilty, but I certainly don't ever sympathise with the criminal.

Women should set themselves forth attractively but innocently, like a cat. A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening.

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.

Pure women are only those who have not been asked.

Aurora, you're a child, live like one, don't act like one. Enjoy the innocence, dump the immaturity.

I'LL LET YOU FREE IN MY NEVERLAND

Maybe, long ago, we used to be good. Maybe all little girls are good in the beginning.

Smiling face of every little girl is the signature of God's presence.

Like a lot of my experience in seeing 'Star Wars' movies multiple times is really just to relive that feeling of being a kid.

When I watch my sons play, I think, God, acting's the most natural thing in the world. They take the 'Star Wars' characters and say, 'Let's pretend that I'm Hans and you're Luke and that we're on this planet,' etc.

I remember I had a copy of 'David Copperfield' that I lugged around at primary school. I started reading it when I was seven, and I was eight when I finished it. I read an awful lot as a little girl and played games and imagined lots of things.

I was absolutely bathed in love. I was so young, starting at age 3, that working seemed very normal. I thought everybody went to work.

Kids come into the world with clean hearts, fresh starts.

When I was a child, I was raised Catholic. Somewhere, I didn't fit with the saints and holy men. I discovered the monsters - in Boris Karloff, I saw a beautiful, innocent creature in a state of grace, sacrificed by sins he did not commit.

Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.

Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life trying to find a certain simplicity that you had. It's less about staying in childhood than keeping a certain spirit of seeing things in a different way.

I love telling stories from a kid's point of view because they don't really see all the obstacles in front of them. They're resilient, and sometimes adults can steal that from them.

I've always been fascinated with the stealing of innocence. It's the most heinous crime, and certainly a capital crime if there ever was one.