Quotes About Innocence

Innocence is the most intelligent admission of stupidity.

Young children see the innocence of life, while some adults live in innocence.

You can't confuse childlike faith with childish thinking.

Those whose hearts are pure are temples of the Holy Spirit.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

She kissed me like she meant forever, we were too damn young to know any better.

Curiosity killed my innocence. Over thinking killed my happiness. Insecurities killed my self-esteem. Lies killed my trust. Stereotypes killed my individuality. And judgement killed me.

Your innocence makes me forget all shady things of this world.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Children are the flower of life let's be kind to them, Let's make them happy and let's help them. To save that child inside for the rest of their lives!

There was a sort of innocence to him, I thought. I do not mean this as the poets mean it: a virtue to be broken by the story's end, or else upheld at greatest cost. Nor do I mean that he was foolish or guileless. I mean that he was made only of himself, without the dregs that clog the rest of us.

we were only twelve, too young to brood.

That night I lie in bed beside Achilles. His face is innocent, sleep-smoothed and sweetly boyish. I love to see it. This is his truest self, earnest and guileless, full of mischief but without malice. He is lost in Agamemnon and Odysseus' wily double meanings, their lies and games of power. They have confounded him, tied him to a stake and baited him. I stroke the soft skin of his forehead. I would untie him if I could. If he would let me.

Eravamo come dei all'alba del mondo e la nostra felicità era così abbagliante che non potevamo vedere altro che noi.

Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.

girls running around this old

We know best about these devils Who of children prophets make

What would happen if I were to become A child again? And I returned to you… and you returned to me.

There's a look little girls have who are adored by their fathers," Bea said. "It's that facial expression of being totally impervious to the badness of the world. If they can keep that look into their twenties, they're pretty much okay, they've got a force field around them. I don't know if Jonna ever had it. I think she's always known about the bad things.

It is better to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death

I was a simple little girl who sometimes played philosopher. I was no enigma. The mystery is your creation.

Ya nunca será lo mismo para ti. Nunca volverás a ver con ojos inocentes o sin ambivalencia en la mente, como antes de este momento. Una parte de ti está ahora consagrada a todo lo que excluye ese simple gozo y exultación. Bienaventurado has sido de poseerlo durante un breve período...»

To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry.

Meggie turned back to watch the children. Life was so simple for them. Their biggest worry was what they'd get for their birthdays. Their biggest grumble was the time they had to go to bed. Maybe things would be different for them…Better. Meggie forced herself to believe that things would be better for the children, otherwise what was the point of it all?" — Meggie McGregor