Innocence Quotes - Page 21

• I feel I lost my innocence to cancer.

  Delta Goodrem

  Cancer, Lost, Feels

  "I'm fit and strong now. I feel blessed" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2007.

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• Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

  Margaret Mead

  Sex, Children, Acceptance

  Margaret Mead (1972). “Twentieth century faith: hope and survival”

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• Truth is, most of us contain a splashing, giggling, squealing child who knows without thinking that bare skin and water go together as wings go with air, roots with earth, and the phoenix with incendiary sun. And innocence belongs to us as it did to ancient Greek athletes, who never wore clothes for their footraces or boxing matches but rather oiled themselves until their nude bodies glistened in the sunlight.

  Janet Lembke

  Children, Athlete, Thinking

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• Sport, at its best, at its most human, is able to inspire an innocence and joy that is unique to each of us.

  Richard J. Corman

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• If you would live innocently, seek solitude.

  Publilius Syrus

  Solitude, Ifs

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• We come this way but once. We can either tiptoe through life and hope we get to death without being badly bruised or we can live a full, complete life achieving our goals and realizing our wildest dreams.

  Bob Proctor

  Dream, Goal, Tiptoes

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 31, 2014

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• Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

  Publilius Syrus

  Pain, Lying, Innocent

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• It's still possible to savor the remarkable foods that millennia of human ingenuity have teased from milk. A sip of milk itself or a scoop of ice cream can be a Proustian draft of youth's innocence and energy and possibility, while a morsel of fine cheese is a rich meditation on maturity, the fulfillment of possibility, the way of all flesh.

  Harold McGee

  Maturity, Ice Cream, Meditation

  Harold McGee (2007). “On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• The victory's found in truth, like innocence found in youth Self defeat is your own dispute

  Damian Marley

  Motivational, Self, Hip Hop

  Song: Strong Will Continue, Album: Distant Relatives, 2010

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• Wonder is a very subtle, precious emotion, often lost in the gross hustle and bustle of modern life. When we feel wonder, we are immediately reminded of the purity and innocence of our childhood. Then, everything was magical and mysterious. Magic should help us relive that wonder.

  Doug Henning

  Purity And Innocence, Hustle And Bustle, Childhood

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• Once a child is confronted with the concept of death there's a certain innocence that goes.

  Patsy Kensit

  Children, Certain, Concepts

  "Patsy Kensit: My family values". Interview With Helen Carroll, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2011.

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• I will prove my innocence, ... I guarantee the Filipino people that I will be vindicated because the truth is on my side.

  Joseph Estrada

  People, Guarantees, Sides

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• Few can remember
  clearly when innocence came
  to a sudden end,
  the moment at which we ask
  for the first time: Am I loved?

  W. H. Auden

  Firsts, Remember, Moments

  W. H. Auden, Katherine Bucknell (2003). “Juvenilia: Poems, 1922-1928”, p.28, Princeton University Press

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• The thing I like most about dogs is their absolute belief in their own innocence, even when they've been caught redhanded. No matter what they've been doing, every bad dog bears the same look when scolded: "What?"

  Craig Wilson

  Dog, Looks, Matter

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• Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.

  William Blake

  Nature, Flower, Eternity Of Life

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 1

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• We each begin in innocence.
  We all become guilty.

  Leonard Peltier

  Guilty

  Leonard Peltier (2016). “Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance”, p.16, St. Martin's Griffin

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• The internet has no government, no constitution, no laws, no rights, no police, no courts. Don't talk about fairness or innocence, and don't talk about what should be done. Instead, talk about what is being done and what will be done by the amorphous unreachable undefinable blob called the internet user base.

  Paul Vixie

  Law, Rights, Government

  NANOG mailing list, 2004.

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• In April 1917 the illusion of isolation was destroyed, America came to the end of innocence, and of the exuberant freedom of bachelor independence. That the responsibilities of world power have not made us happier is no surprise. To help ourselves manage them, we have replaced the illusion of isolation with a new illusion of omnipotence.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Responsibility, Omnipotence, America

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• PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune. The plague today . . . is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Time, Nature, Punishment

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.165, 谷月社

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• When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to, has made, sustained and moved moment by moment within, all our earthly experiences of innocent love.

  C. S. Lewis

  Party, Faces, Moments

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.151, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Today, our brave military men and women, just as those who have gone before them, stand on alert, securing freedom at home and guarding the innocent abroad.

  Conrad Burns

  Military, Home, Men

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• We know we must win the war on terror to protect innocent people and the freedoms that define our way of life.

  Doc Hastings

  War, Winning, People

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• I'm innocent. I've done nothing. I'm a nice guy.

  Coolio

  Nice, Guy, Done

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children.

  Ricardo Lagos

  Children, Innocent, Obligation

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• It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.

  Stephen Breyer

  Fighting, People, Helping

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