Quotes About Innocence

Les gens du peuple dévisageaient toujours avec une curiosité fascinée les enfants qui seraient un jour leurs suzerains. Dans ce tribunal chargé de punir la violence, la rapine et la malhonnêteté, ces deux garçons innocents faisaient songer à des agneaux égarés dans une porcherie.

Matar a un ruiseñor

There is a special mixture of wisdom and innocence that comes only to adolescents. - Ursula Dewar

Until you had a child, you did not understand how much they had to learn.

Pero, sea inocente o arrogante, sagrada o profana, la ignorancia es la ignorancia y toda ignorancia destruye la biosfera.

Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, good liberals both, pursued power by offering their candidacies as opportunities for Americans to document their innocence of the nation's past.

The power of purity-it is a definite power.

The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and gentleness.

Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns except as the agent of a foreign power.

Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless.

Your innocence itself is a power and your innocence will definitely give you that wisdom by which you can solve all the problems without any difficulty.

In the same way that a small child cannot draw a bad picture so a child of God cannot offer a bad prayer.

Children are the keys of Paradise. They alone are good and wise, because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer.

Prayer is innocence's friend; and willingly flieth incessant 'twist the earth and the sky, the carrier-pigeon of heaven.

I'm convinced that one of the most powerful forces on earth is the prayer of a child.

Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.

As I remember them, late summer Saturdays were always hot, dry, and colored a deep green. I know now some Saturdays must have been gray; rain must have made water princesses dance in gutter puddles, as my grandmother assured me they did, each time a drop plunked down. But I will never really believe it rained on Saturdays, for I can remember only the sun playing with bits of broken glass in the vacant lot next to my house and myself running all day up and down the block like a heathen.

It is the childlike part of us that produces works of the imagination. When we were children time passed so slow with us that we seemed to have time for everything.

Placing wonder on a beautiful baby Young, fresh with innocence Trials of life Dusted with vision Waiting to be polluted

To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.

The child was slender as fleeting hope.

The child was slender as a fleeting hope.

This was like childhood, this grief.