Quotes About Innocence

In second grade, she'd snuck up on a napping Eva and colored her entire forearm with a highlighter. Because she was "important.

She has the complexion of a wealthy infant.

I get one slice of dick and turn into a wide-eyed Disney princess.

the look on his face was one of absolute, perfect joy—the kind of joy that can't be reproached, stolen, or marred—the kind that only the innocent or the ignorant are capable of experiencing.

But everyone has secrets, don't they? But that doesn't have to be a bad thing. Secrets can be a burden. I mean, once you know something, that's it. You can never un-know it. You can never take that knowledge back. The innocence you had before, it's gone. You shouldn't inflict that on someone unless you really have to. Especially not someone you love.

There could never be innocence in a world without justice.

When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me.

Life was invented for kids. But then we all grow up, and society imposes filters that block the joy of silliness and sponging up pointless little things that make childhood the magic time for which it is widely known.

These rare gray afternoons evoke a sweet, childhood melancholy in my soul, like when it rained in kindergarten and we had to stay inside and do crafts with library paste and pipe cleaners and buttons, and I made the best project in the whole class, an ultra-powerful rubber-band zip gun, but the teacher gave me a zero because I got her in the eye with a button.

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

Nobody is born evil.

A baby is a loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

I really think one of the most extraordinary things in the world is the amount of noise a child can make.

I still had a normal childhood with my friends from school.

The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.

The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl!

I wanted to really just understand... how could a whole generation of children who were just children at the time - boys riding their bikes, flying kites, and doing all kinds of things they normally do - how could they suddenly be taught a completely different curriculum?

Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.

I want my music to make you reminiscent or nostalgic of your childhood, or take you back to a better place.

You have to let kids be kids. Robbing them of their childhood and/or adolescence is not fair.

When a person is found not guilty, they're found not guilty.

I would like to believe the majority of Americans want to see justice done, and they are not interested in financing the detention of innocent people.

We see through the eyes of children that they're not talking about race the way we grown folks are. They're not talking about color or how much melanin is in someone's skin.

I really wanted, when I was a little, little kid, I wanted to collect rocks. I don't know why. I didn't know nothin' about them. I just liked to pick them up and keep em.