Quotes About Innocence

In the quiet of the kitchen my mind wanders. Fried chicken and potato salad. What's this man trying to re-create? A picnic? An outing? A meal his grandma made? A chess pie is old school. It's basically a pecan pie without the pecans. Syrupy sweet. I think about the memories he must have about this meal. Innocent. Pure. Happy.

Brother, you can't go to jail for what you're thinking.

Gabe?" The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him. "There could be love", Jonas whispered.

There was a little girl, Who had a little curl, Right in the middle of her forehead. When she was good, She was very good indeed, But when she was bad she was horrid.

He felt that his soul had remained among the pirates – he was young and from the country and still ignorant of Love's piracies.

Even innocence itself has many a wile, And will not dare to trust itself with truth, And love is taught hypocrisy from youth.

It was a credulous age... as all ages are.

Those cries can be heard through the thickest walls. They can cut through concrete and skin and reach deep into the dark parts of a lost boy's soul. They are cries that change the course of a life, that trample innocence and snuff out goodness.

No matter how much we pretend otherwise—mothers, daughters, grandmothers—there is always a part of us deep down inside that remains the little girl we once were.

They do not have to prove innocence, but we do have to prove guilt beyond any reasonable doubt. What we need is a confession. We need a guilty plea. We need irrefutable proof. Something.

If he's retained Klister the Blister," says Backmann, "my money's on him being guilty as sin. Innocent people don't hire counsel like the Blister.

I never rode in an automobile until I was 12.

Of all her childhood memories, her favorite was never having to pay bills.

Lucille smiled innocently. "Mischief managed." She sent Callie a wink and moved off.

There's more magic in a baby's first giggle than in any firestorm a wizard can conjure up, and don't let anyone tell you any different.

Harry," Thomas said, "be real. Everyone wants someone to make us pancakes; we're all just too grown-up to say it.

she bowed just low enough to draw the young man's [Daniel Carpenter] eyes to her décolletage. He flushed and looked away sternly. After a second. Tough to blame the kid. I've been a young man. Boobs are near the center of the universe.

I am pure of heart and mind," I told her. "I cannot be corrupted.

Sometimes, Hoss," he said very gently, "you lose. Sometimes the darkness takes everyone. Sometimes the monster escapes to kill again another day." He shook his head and looked down. "Sometimes, Hoss, the innocent little ones are murdered. And there's not one goddamned thing you can do about it.

That's kind of awesome," I said. "Children frequently are," Michael said.

There's more magic in a baby's first giggle than in any firestorm a wizard can conjure up, and don't let anyone tell you any different. Magic

There's more magic in a baby's first giggle than in any firestorm a wizard can conjure up, and don't let anyone tell you any different.

Start when they're cute, so they will stay that way!

children, those lucky ones to whom clocks are of no consequence but who drift along on the true emotional content of time.