Quotes About Innocence

I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves.

Bambi, to a kid, was scary.

What joy would I get from putting the wrong person behind bars?

You can only get a beginner's mind once.

Right at the beginning, I didn't know if Miffy was a boy or girl.

I remember being happy and a little wild kid.

I believed in Santa Claus until I was 12!

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy. G. K. CHESTERTON

Mortality had remained a conveniently hypothetical concept, an idea to ponder in the abstract. Sooner of later the divestiture of such a privileged innocence was inevitable, but when it finally happened the shock was magnified by the sheer superfluity of the carnage.

We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law.

I'd been beguiled by the new technology—a toddler crawling toward a gun.

I'd been beguiled by the new technology -- a toddler crawling toward a gun.

Fading photographs on the corridor walls from the 1960s and 1970s showed children strapped to frightening-looking machines, wires dangling from their heads. They smiled at the camera in uncomprehending excitement as if they were at the beach.

Don't you know what a pussy is, sir?' 'Of course he doesn't. He hasn't even seen Basic Instinct.

A four-year-old says, "My mommy lives in heaven. Her eyelashes go down instead of up because she is Ã¢â'¬Â¦ in heaven, but I miss her." She feels consoled that her mother "is with God," who, she says, "has pink whiskers, red hair, and two feet.… I did not want her to die until I died. I think I am going to die too in a little while.

Agli inizi della carriera ero così fesso da credere che il lavoro consistesse nell'individuare un colpevole tra la massa degli innocenti. In realtà si tratta casomai di trovare uno o due innocenti che meritano di essere salvati in mezzo alla massa dei cattivi.

Things said and done innocently should never be used as weapons.

Every generation is born innocent, and if that is bad for history, it is nevertheless necessary for

Every generation is born innocent, and if that is bad for history, it is nevertheless necessary for life.

What do babies dream of? She must be dreaming of the before-life, just as I dream of the afterlife.

I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.

Flea-Market vendors are frozen mid-haggle. Middle-aged women are frozen in the middle of their lives. The gavels of frozen judges are frozen between guilt and innocence. On the ground are the crystals of the frozen first breaths of babies, and those of the last gasps of the dying.

He invented stories so fantastic she had to believe. Of cours, she was only a child, still removing the dust from her first death. What else could she do? And he was already accumulating the dust of his second death. What else could he do?

Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?