Quotes About Innocence

And I don't believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to a playground and watch the kids playing in the sandbox! The romantic notion of the sweet child is simply the parents projecting their own wishes.

you could also hear the other, some young soldier speaking in all bloody innocence, saying, 'All that's just a load, man. We're here to kill gooks. Period.' Which wasn't at all true of me. I was there to watch.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be lived.

When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see.

There is a sneakiness about girls that they keep hid under sweetness and pouting and crying.

I'd observed that repeat offenders were the easiest to deal with, treating their lawyers with something akin to professional courtesy. All they wanted was a deal. It was only the first timers who bothered to tell you they were innocent.

There is no land like the land of your childhood.

They trap us like that - babies- with one look they can take hold of our hearts because our hearts have no defences against such beauty and fragility.

My love for a child will be greater than my love for an adult because it is a singular love that isn't based on physical attraction, or shared experiences, or the pleasures of intimacy, or time together. It is unconditional, immeasurable, unshakeable.

Green's first victim was found on the North York Moors, which is why the papers called him the 'Beast of Whitby'. He went on to rape and kill at least two more children, one of whom he lured into his van using kittens that he'd collected from a local animal shelter. He pleaded guilty to the murders, but died within a year, beaten to death in a prison exercise yard

They trap us like that—babies—with one look they can take hold of our hearts because our hearts have no defenses against such beauty and fragility.

beach, eating ice-cream cones or taking donkey rides. Blackpool is where she first rode roller skates and let a boy kiss her. She went in a talent show and sang a Cyndi Lauper song about girls

is so fundamental to our existence; it is wired into our DNA. That's why babies learn to fake cry before they're a year old and to bluff by the age of two. By four a child is an accomplished liar, and by five, he or she realises that truly outrageous lies are less likely to be believed.

I have to say there is part of me that envies the moral clarity of the vegetarian," writes University of California journalism professor Michael Pollan, in a passage from his 2007 book, The Omnivore's Dilemma. "Yet part of me pities him, too. Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris."70 The trouble with dogmatic vegetarianism

Thus were they most anxious for that which was to prove their destruction:—yet do we not all aspire after that which conducts us to the grave—after the enjoyment of life? These innocents stretched out their arms to approaching death, because it assumed the mask of pleasure;

So much for Heather's first time," Sadie said in her normal voice. "She died a virgin. How sad.

Where's the skill in throwing a hook loaded with tempting bait into the general vicinity of lots of perpetually hungry creatures with brains the size of mustard seeds? You might as well go to a playground, scatter Reese's peanut butter cups around, and club to death the first four year old foolish enough to approach, believing innocently that such treats are readily available in nature.

that window and to the right. I'd seen several old movies where the boy tossed pebbles at the girl's window. So I planned to use that approach. But I needed something more accurate, more effective. And

Trump believed he would never be proven guilty; therefore, he was innocent. And he carried the total confidence and even serenity of the innocent—or at least of someone who knows how difficult it is to establish the guilt of a person capable of admitting nothing, of never wavering.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

The dream of all men is to meet little sluts who are innocent but ready for all forms of depravity—which is what, more or less, all teenage girls are.

De eeuwigheid van de kindertijd is een korte eeuwigheid, maar dat weet hij nog niet; het landschap glijdt voorbij.

He does not know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is a brief one.

He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief.