Quotes About Innocence

It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.

I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.

Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.

I've been a good boy, I've never really been convicted of serious crime.

What should a good children's book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.

Children are certainly too good to be true.

There are no innocents in Gaza, don't let any diplomats who want to look good in the world endanger your lives - mow them down!

Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.

I'll tell you what I was like as a child. I was a good person. I was high-spirited but I was a big reader.

When a child is born, it's born with a heart of gold, but the way of this world can turn that heart cold. I'm still a good person, and I thank God for that - He's working with me on it.

He looks like the good boy he's never been.

I haven't been in a good mood since I was 6 years old

Everybody has a wicked side, whether they are six or sixty, and yet so often storytelling draws a sharp line between good and evil.

There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause.

Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing good.

The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States.

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence.

I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong.

I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet.

The great person never loses a childlike spirit.

The child and the great artist -- these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world.

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives me further to fall.