Quotes About Innocence

My childhood had much clarity. I didn't see abuse. I didn't see my parents bickering. I didn't live in a dysfunctional family.

I am just a nice, clean-cut Mongolian boy.

I don't think kids climbing up the leg of someone is a big deal.

They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left.

I don't commit any crimes.

To make a 53-man roster would be a huge accomplishment - right up there with getting exonerated for a crime I didn't commit.

That part of life is the thing that we really need to concentrate on. If you lose the way children look through their eyes at the world, it really becomes kind of a doldrum.

I have a clear conscience.

As far as the charge against me is concerned I have a clear conscience.

My conscience is clean.

When you are surrounded by children, the child in you comes back.

How do you survive living in a cell knowing you are innocent? Many of those exonerated whom I have met seem to have a more benign, grateful attitude toward life than those of us who walk free. Many find a religious or spiritual stronghold.

We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.

Children don't have to suspend disbelief like adults do... their brains can take in whatever crazy magical ideas you throw at them.

I was in preschool and a girl actually kissed me on the cheek. I didn't know what to do. I didn't know what it meant, so I instantly grabbed her face and kissed her on the lips. And, then I got suspended.

I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.

In fact, my son learned his first swear word from E.T. at age five. The way I look at it, E.T. stole a bit of my son's childhood.

I got caught stealing when I was a kid from the local bodega right across the street from where we lived. I tried to steal a big bag of Red Hot Dollars. And I swear, I was about 7 years old and the bag was bigger'n me.

We tracked 'Domestic Sweater' live as a full band. It had been a while since we had even performed so in doing so, a sweet innocence arose, as though we were playing in our garage again.

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.

It may part of a one way evolution... or it may be we are currently on the downside of an innocence cycle where one day, with an up cycle, sweet will be entertaining again.

I grew up, probably like a lot of people, on cartoons. And I never thought I would have the chance to be in an animated movie. It's good also to show the world my sweet side with them.

I also quite like to be recognized by children; I find it sweet.