Quotes About Innocence

This is a very big victory for Michael and we are all very proud that he has been completely and totally vindicated in court, as we were certain he would be.

You know in my own area of Waltham Forest, we've had many murders as a result of the gang violence and often innocent bystanders get caught up in it.

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

I've never been jailed for a crime of violence.

Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.

I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.

Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.

Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

Innocence is not virtue. Virtue demands the active employment of an ardent mind in the promotion of the general good. No man can be eminently virtuous who is not accustomed to an extensive range of reflection.

What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?

Every child is innocent because it has not been tempted, but only when we have been tempted and have remained pure, or when we have fallen, repented and reformed, are we virtuous.

Children had a special status - protected from the outside world - and they dressed for the part in a way that made that special status immediately visible to themselves and the adults.

To be five years old is to be surprised by life. I'm amused by my children's awe at quotidian things - a toy helicopter, a bubble bath, the visible tentacles on a plate of calamari. And I'm envious of their ability to attain something I often can't: a state of transcendence induced by art.

When I first made a grid, I happened to be thinking of the innocence of trees, and then a grid came into my mind and I thought it represented innocence, and I still do, and so I painted it and then I was satisfied. I thought, 'This is my vision.'

How could my heart be so wrong?" "Because it was such a young heart.

She'd been a silly girl then, full of childish dreams. Sometimes she missed that young girl.

But she'd lost a good deal of her innocence there, because she'd discovered so much she couldn't control.

It was slowly dawning on me that innocence is a protection. They knew very well, better than I, how harsh the world is. And they realized early on they had one of two choices: to be bitter; or to enjoy what they had.

Si tienes el coraje suficiente para recuperar la inocencia y dejar volar la imaginación, también tú tendrás al dragón como amigo

I was sophisticated enough to know that the written word is no mirror of the writer's character, that the amateur, though a selfless angel, may show himself a pompous ass, while the professional, a monster of ego, can convince you in a phrase that he has the innocence of a child. I

Did you know that childhood is the only time in our lives when insanity is not only permitted to us, but expected?

Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.