Quotes About Innocence

if you are ever suspected of something, try to make the evidence point to a lesser offense. Never try to prove lily-white innocence. Human nature being what it is, your chances are better.

His expression was innocent, his eyes were not. What sort of creature had a face like that?

1. Determine to enjoy this primitive circuit fully from now on. Play with yourself and others and the environment shamelessly, like a newborn baby. Meditate on "Unless ye become as a little child, ye shall in no wise enter the Kingdom of Heaven." (paraphrase of Matthew 18:3)

Why, she wouldn't even harm a fly...

Tengo el corazón de un niño. Lo guardo en un jarro sobre mi estante

Rhyme for a Child Viewing a Naked Venus in a Painting of "The Judgement of Paris" He gazed and gazed and gazed and gazed, Amazed, amazed, amazed, amazed.

Gin a body meet a body Coming thro' the rye, Gin a body kiss a body— Need a body cry?

It was almost like there was something wicked about growing up.

I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~ And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so I dream of going back to be.

Everything I need to know... I learned in kindergarten.

There are far worse things to drop on people than Crayolas.

Out of the mouths of babes may come gems of wisdom, but also garbage.

those who make a show or display of innocence are the least innocent of all.

a show or display of innocence are the least innocent of all. The only means to gain one's ends with people are force and cunning. Love also, they say; but that is to wait for sunshine, and life needs every moment. JOHANN VON GOETHE, 1749-1832

Children are the only people who accept a mood of wonderment, who are ready to welcome a perfect miracle at any hour of the day or night. Only a child can entertain an angel unawares, or to meet Sir Launcelot in shining armor on a moonlit road.

There were moments where I could make her laugh so unselfconsciously that she felt like a child again, expanding into her past as she was moving into her future.

Maybe that's what children were, a desperate need that opened you up even if you didn't want it.

That's how children deal with terror, they fall asleep.

That's how children deal with terror. They fall asleep.

What I have in ample supply here is children who've lost their childhood. But the tragedy is that these are the lucky ones.

He used to wonder how such a frail little body could house so much joy, so much goodness. It couldn't. It spilled out of her, came pouring out her eyes.

It was a look I had seen before. It was the look of the lamb.

I wondered when I had forgotten that, despite everything, he was still just a child.