Quotes and Sayings About Innocence
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Even if you forget that´s not the same as if it never happened. The slate is not entirely wiped clean; you can´t reclaim the person you were beforehand; your state of innocence is not there to be retrieved.
-- A.S.A. Harrison -
If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge , not innocence.
-- Adolph Gottlieb -
There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.
-- Adrian Mitchell -
One must be willing to stand alone - in the unknown, with no reference to authority or the past or any of one's conditioning. One must stand where no one has stood before in complete nakedness, innocence, and humility.
-- Adyashanti -
Christ is the very epitome of innocence, and without the blood of Christ, shed on Calvary, God's plan of salvation would not have been fulfilled.
-- Alan Keyes -
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
-- Albert Camus -
It is in the translation that the innocence lost after the first reading is restored under another guise, since the reader is once again faced with a new text and its attendant mystery. That is the inescapable paradox of translation, and also its wealth.
-- Alberto Manguel -
They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em.
-- Alex Winter -
Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.
-- Alice Thomas Ellis -
The most effective coquetry is innocence.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
Once innocence--an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists--encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood, it becomes knowledge. And if that knowledge is employed, then it becomes wisdom.
-- Ana Castillo -
It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.
-- Anais Nin -
Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
-- Anatole France -
India has the purity, the innocence. India knows what it wants. There is a direction. It has so much to offer.
-- Anil Kapoor -
Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted.
-- Anita Brookner -
The presumption of innocence only means you don't go right to jail.
-- Ann Coulter -
Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right.
-- Anne Lamott -
The courage of children and beasts is a function of innocence.
-- Annie Dillard -
More oftentimes than not, you're automatically guilty before innocent.
-- Anthony Anderson -
Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.
-- Anthony Anderson -
Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.
-- Antonin Scalia -
Those who grant sympathy to guilt, grant none to innocence.
-- Ayn Rand -
Like, you can find your dream, if you firmly believe. You have to have the innocence, and you have to have the daringness to trust.
-- Bai Ling -
People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
-- Barney Frank -
In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!
-- Bette Davis -
Whether we knew many who died on September 11 or personally knew none, we all lost something on that day. Innocence. Security. A trust that our homeland would always be safe.
-- Bob Taft -
I feel like I'm a much better person when I'm developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I'm just working on my analytical mind.
-- Brit Marling -
Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.
-- Brooke Shields
