Quotes About Innocence

Sweetness! World needs sweetness! It needs a sweet child, a sweet dolphin, a sweet monkey; it needs sweet people to soften the callous hearts!

There are only two kinds of people who do not commit any sins: Unborn human beings and dead human beings!

What a magnificent accomplishment to be able to stay alive as an innocent lamb in the land of guilty wolves!

You either keep your childhood innocence or you rot!

Where did this come from? Do you know what this is? Luca is going to sneak out of bed in the middle of the night and squirt it on his tongue. It's like drugs for ten-year-olds. Today it's Ice Magic. Tomorrow, heroin.

What kind of freak is this kid who's giggling hysterically with the girls in the neighbouring beds, each with a crush on the other for being the same age when the rest of the world seems so old?

If the munchkin, whose face I used to wash, tries to explain to us what a sixty-niner is, I'm going to report myself to child protection.

White for light. White for love. White for forever.

Like most children, he was on intimate terms with the earth. The under-tens deal in little sticks and pebbles; they are artisans of holes, experts in the types and properties of stones; they appreciate the many qualities of mud and its summer corollary, dust. And then they grow up, and the ground is just whatever's underfoot.

Do you remember those days? Back porch, sunshine, mason jars" - she paused at remembered sweetness - "we were so foolish then...thinking there was a big ol' world out there to conquer.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.

The great man is he who does not loose his child's heart.

Ser menino é estar cheio de céu por cima.

Em criança não nos despedimos dos lugares. Pensamos que voltamos sempre. Acreditamos que nunca é a última vez.

Ser menino é estar ceio de céu por cima.

Being a teen was a metaphorical state that could be prolonged indefinitely, a way of being in which one was unspoiled, blameless, enthusiastic, and sincere.

The little girl in the red cloak who had taken her parents was Little Red Riding Hood!

There is no client as scary as an innocent man. " J. Michael Haller, Criminal Defense Attorney, Los Angeles, 1962.

If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?

He knows the human heart cannot resist a cry of "Why" when innocence is ruined;

That is because Donald Trump is the literal face of white innocence without consciousness, white privilege without apology. Each

White fragility is a will to innocence that serves to bury the violence it sits on top off.

The idolatry of whiteness and the cloak of innocence that shields it can only be quenched by love, but not merely, or even primarily, a private, personal notion of love, but a public expression of love that holds us all accountable. Justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public.

Instead, we are two symbols in a 400-year-old battle of guilt and innocence.