Quotes About Innocence

La infancia es a veces un paraíso perdido, pero otras, es un infierno de mierda.

Es curioso como a veces se puede llegar a ser tan inocentemente cruel.

First love is never forgotten,' she went on. 'It's the only love that remains fresh and potent for a lifetime. It's the truest and most innocent of loves, exactly because it can never come to fruition. Do you understand what I mean?' 'Not exactly.' 'It never grows old; you see? It's as fleeting as the morning dew, yet it clings to us all our lives.

What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.

You know what I wisht I had, Ma? A pouch like a 'possum, to tote things. --The Yearling

The whole horrific experience taught me that it is evil for a man to die in payment for another's sins. A blood sacrifice by the innocent to atone for the crimes of the guilty is unjust to both.

There's no question that Laura – in more than one way, for many reasons – danced with the devil and paid a terrible price.

The American criminal justice system had long been predicated on a simple belief: 'It's better to let a hundred guilty people go free than to convict one innocent person.' But not anymore. Now the prevailing philosophy was, 'It's better to convict a hundred innocent people than to let one guilty person go free.' Crime had changed America. Americans.

We take a beautiful little boy and we put him in a diaper and we give him a lethal weapon and we say LOVE. Which makes absolutely no sense.

We must abandon the goals of perfect obedience and untainted innocence and begin to equip our children to see their place in God's family, their need for his grace, and their opportunity to embrace his mission.

Para nosotros ningún momento es completo en sí mismo. Cada momento se ve adulterado, empañado por lo que recordamos que ha sido y lo que anticipamos que será. En cada momento de nuestra vida la flecha del tiempo nos mantiene inocentes y moribundos, y por eso creemos que somos superiores a los demás animales.

I, on the other hand, hoped Ava would never grow up. In my eyes, the fact that she didn't yet know what words meant, and had no concept of herself as something distinct from anything else, made her the greatest show on earth.

Pity the poor infant. Born perfect into the world from imperfect parents.

Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.

When I first saw a strap on, I put it on my head and ran around like a rhino.

When you're three, you're into custard, and jumping.

I was born with an adult head and a tiny body. Like a 'Peanuts' character.

I had never been to second base.

Elena, my four year old, says to me in all seriousness; "Mommy, you need to buy another baby".

When I was five years old I was on a merry go round. There was a gunshot nearby. The horses stampeded. There I was running down the street on a purple wooden horse.

My son did not show signs of a money deficiency until he opened his small fist in the nursery and found it was empty.

What does Christmas mean if we can't encourage small children to sit on a stranger's lap?

The only food he has ever stolen has been down on a coffee table. He claims that he genuinely believed it to be a table meant for dogs.

Children have an easier ability to tap into the surreal than adults do, in a funny kind of way.