Quotes About Innocence

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

Lawers, I suppose, were children once.

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

There's something special about a kid's smile. I see in their faces what we all used to be before the world got hold of us.

sold into trafficking by foster parents before puberty. While she still believed the tooth fairy was real.

There's something special about a kid's smile. I see in their faces what we all used to be before the world got hold of us.

The old woman dressing a small child for slaughter In a convent's school uniform. The ceiling pale as the flowers. The red parrot screaming in the parrot house.

It isn't actually a question of guilt or innocence, is it? It's a matter of what the jury believes, once we've told them what evidence there is on either side. Given the proper evidence, we could probably convict God. Without it, Lucifer himself would walk free!

It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else.

We wove a web in childhood,A web of sunny air.

Our only means of true intimacy with a child is the power of recovering our own childhood.

That which is desirable in young girls means, naturally, that which is desirable to men. Of all cultivated accomplishments the first is 'innocence.' Beauty may or may not be forthcoming; but 'innocence' is 'the chief charm of girlhood.

She was kindhearted and forgiving, generous and naïve.

The innocent brightness of a new-born Day Is lovely yet; The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality...

When little boys have learned a new bad word they are never happy till they have chalked it up on a door.

The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed... licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.

Blushing is the color of virtue.

When television came roaring in after the war they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why — television or radio. And there was this seven-year-old boy who said he preferred radio "because the pictures were better."

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

My childhood smells like a box of Crayola crayons.

To the daisy — the poet's darling.

Being abandoned doesn't make for little angels.

Beauty is more than skin deep. Beauty radiates from deep within. The innocence of a child. The love in someone's heart. A willingness to help others. The desire to make the world a better place. Someone painfully knocked down in life, who gets up, smiles, and continues to blossom.

Imagine a twelve-year-old-girl. Imagine her being attacked, raped and murdered. Take your time. Then imagine God. M. Barin, poet