Quotes About Innocence

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

Children are our greatest natural resource.

Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!

Children have a more restricted and yet a more intense feeling for nature than grown-ups.

Nothing too bad could happen around children drinking milkshakes.

O gatinho, porque estava morto, tinha-me apanhado a matar. Que não tenha havido intenção, só piorava as coisas. A ternura monstruosa enreda-se na culpa de forma diferente da crueldade intencionada. Mais profunda. E mais longamente.

Childeren are much better at bringing out what they have imagined in their heads. Ä°t's much more straightforward. They don't try to do a good job. Ä°t's nice, isn't it ? Because it's pure, innocent. Ä°t's a part of me that's been lost.

Get bored is not allowed! -Eloise Age 6

He needs guilty men. So he has found men who are guilty. Though perhaps not guilty as charged.

Innocence is a bleeding wound without a bandage, a wound that opens with every casual knock from casual passers-by. Experience is an armour.

When Gregory says, 'Are they guilty?' he means, 'Did they do it?' But when he says, 'Are they guilty?' he means, 'Did the court find them so?' The lawyer's world is entire unto itself, the human pared away.

When a man admits guilt we have to believe him. We cannot set ourselves to proving to him that he is wrong. Otherwise the law courts would never function.

Before they kill her. Alice is no innocent in this world. Just as well. Look how the innocent end; used by the sin-sodden and the cynical, pulped to their purpose and ground under their heels.

He was, in all, so clean, so sweet, so golden, that I backed off, afraid he must be American and about to convert me to some cult.

People say, "loss," she reflected, but they do not know what innocence is like. Innocence is a bleeding wound without a bandage, a wound that opens with every casual knock from casual passers-by. Experience is armour; and she felt already clad.

It was just that I was unsuited to being a child.

But we yearn for our origins; we yearn for an innocent terrain.

He will grow up into one of those people who lean back to smile and jump so easily it looks like slow motion and steer cars with their knees and snitch roses from gardens to give to girls and write with their left hand and own two pairs of jeans and one jacket and fall in love from such a height and so hard and so completely that they never quite recover from the drop. But at least he will have me to look out for him.

You tell me the word pristine was perfect. It was the cure.

DOSTIE: Let's be honest here. People? Sometimes they suck. But kids, well, they're like a new snowfall, you know?

He looks like the good boy he's never been.

I have to spring a cat out of Rumelt Animal Shelter. Think of it as a prison break." It does the trick. He laughs. "Whose cat?" "My cat. What do you think? That I break out the cats of strangers?" "Let me guess, she was framed. She's innocent.

I thought you were her knight, but you have become only her woodsman--taking little girls into the forest to cut out their hearts.

Crowns of flowers on our heads, shooting bows and arrows at the sky. Eating candied violets and falling asleep with our heads pillowed on logs. We were children. Children can laugh all day and still cry themselves to sleep at night.