Quotes About Innocence

He still looked cute enough to justify what was starting to happen, whatever that was.

It would be better maybe if we could stop loving the children and their delicate brawls, pelting across the square in tandem, deking from cover to cover in raucous celebration and they are never winded, bemusing us with the rites of our own gone childhood; if only they stopped mattering, the children, it might be possible, now while the square lies stunned by noon.

Life is a great teacher, and also a best trader. Life teaches you the great lessons, each time taking a little bit of your innocence away.

Nous ne sommes pas travaillé jusqu'à tout simplement parce que quelqu'un nous a menti, mais surtout parce que nous ne pouvons plus faire confiance à cette personne ou quelqu'un d'autre après l'amère expérience. Il est l'affaire d'une trahison de la confiance et une violation de l'innocence qui est absolument irréparable.

We don't get worked up simply because someone lied to us, but mainly because we can no longer trust that person or anyone else after the bitter experience. It's the matter of a betrayal of trust and a violation of innocence that's absolutely irreparable.

The inability to see how the assumptions and biased practices exist in one's own beliefs and behaviors allows Whites to operate in a vacuum of naïveté and innocence that distances them from responsibility or the knowledge that their unawareness fosters complicity in the inequities of our society.

If indeed, he or she has unwittingly engaged in racist behaviors and has unknowingly allowed systems of injustice to flourish, the pain and suffering inflicted upon people of color is partly due to his or her own complicity in a racist system. This proves to be a frightening and uncomfortable realization for many White Americans. Blinders of naïveté, innocence, and obliviousness become removed when awareness of racism and its dynamics increases.

Just leave her alone. You're annoying her.' 'I'm not annoying her. She doesn't even know how to be annoyed. She's, what, a week old?' 'She's three months.' 'She's three months in our years, but what is she in baby years?

What did you do?" Scapegrace asked. A series of expressions flitted across Clarabelle's face. First, there was indignation, then there was resignation, followed by hope, chased by confusion, and finally knocked down and sat upon by innocence. "Nothing.

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.

It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be.

No one knows, the heart of a child, how it grows until it is too late.

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.

There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it.

How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame?

Children accept many things adults will not accept, since the world of a child is a constant revelation without any need for knowledge of cause and effect.

Aristotle described the Crow as chaste. In some departments of knowledge, Aristotle was too innocent for his own good.

A boy's mind is not so easily sullied as a girl's.... Undesirable knowledge is not an equal shock to the moral nature.

In addition to innocence, we have to have knowledge of good and evil.

We are the same people as we were at three six ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so perhaps at six or seven because we were not pretending so much then.

Over time, naturally, you lose your innocence from gaining knowledge. You can't be innocent forever, but there's something in innocence you need to regain to be creative.

What paper planes and empty seats most have in common is that they are best made by children still learning how to ride things out.

As children, we are remarkably aware. We absorb and process information at a speed that we'll never again come close to achieving... we are learning about our world and its possibilities.

If pimps and thieves were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent.