Innocence Quotes - Page 8

• There's a beauty in that innocence that comes from not knowing. It allowed me to take a lot of risks and I took them because I chose a company in a field that I love. So for me, it didn't even feel like working.

  Rachel Roy

  Risk

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I was first sexually exploited when I was seven, by a distant cousin at a family wedding. Even after that I was routinely molested by older cousins and their friends. See, my innocence was taken away and I became mature at one bloody incident. I believe I never had a childhood. I grew up as an elderly person. And that's what my femininity brought upon me. Of course, in a patriarchal society, hijras' bodies are thought of as toys.

  Laxmi Narayan Tripathi

  Cousin, Taken, Believe

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I thought some of my earlier cartoons were not exactly great shakes at the time I drew them. Now I see a certain innocence in them. The humor has a kind of purity to it, I guess. And it works better on some level for me now.

  Gary Larson

  Cartoon, Kind, Purity

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• For me, a lot of the humor comes not from innocence but from characters trying to figure out how to get what they need. I don't try to be funny, but am relieved when an opportunity comes up for humor.

  Akhil Sharma

  Character, Opportunity, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Trials are no longer about freeing the innocent, punishing the guilty, and making restitution to the injured. They have devolved into a contest over who will win.

  Tammy Bruce

  Winning, Trials, Guilty

  Tammy Bruce (2004). “The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values”, p.264, Crown Forum

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• I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.

  Pierre Corneille

  Imagine, Suspicion, Know How

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• My childhood should have taught me lessons for my own fatherhood, but it didn't because parenting can only be learned by people who have no children.

  Bill Cosby

  Family, Children, Parenting

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• The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

  William Cowper

  Innocent, Uncomfortable, Pillow

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• An important and fundamental premise of the American judicial system is the presumption of innocence, that is until proven guilty.

  DMX

  Presumption Of Innocence, Important, Fundamentals

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

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• I'm glad the truth is out. I'm glad everyone knows I'm innocent, not guilty.

  Puff Daddy

  Guilty, Truth Is, Innocent

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• A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Honesty, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1977). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1852-1855”, p.444, Harvard University Press

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• Justice is always Violence to the Party offending, for every Man is Innocent in his own Eyes.

  Daniel Defoe

  Party, Eye, Men

  "Selected Writings of Daniel Defoe".

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• Life is a mystery; that means it cannot be solved. And when all efforts to solve it prove futile, the mystery dawns upon you. Then the doors are open; then you are invited. As a knower, nobody enters the divine; as a child, ignorant, not knowing at all- the mystery embraces you. With a knowing mind you are clever, not innocent. Innocence is the door.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Children, Clever

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• Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness.

  William C. Bryant

  Roots, Fruit, Virtue

  William Cullen Bryant, “Mutation”

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• When they took the Fourth Amendment, I was silent because I don't deal drugs. When they took the Sixth Amendment, I kept quiet because I know I'm innocent. When they took the Second Amendment, I said nothing because I don't own a gun. Now they've come for the First Amendment, and I can't say anything at all.

  Tim Freeman

  Gun, Collecting Things, Drug

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• If you want, then start to laugh,
  If you must, then start to cry,
  Be yourself don't hide
  Just believe in destiny.
  Don't care what people say
  Just follow your own way
  Don't give up and use the chance
  To return to innocence.

  Michael Cretu

  Being Yourself, Giving Up, Integrity

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• The genius of American culture and its integrity comes from fidelity to the light. Plain as day, we say. Happy as the day is long. Early to bed, early to rise. American virtues are daylight virtues: honesty, integrity, plain speech. We say yes when we mean yes and no when we mean no, and all else comes from the evil one. America presumes innocence and even the right to happiness.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Honesty, Integrity, Mean

  1990 Frontiers,'Night and Day'.

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• If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you in losing your cruelty? It merely deprives you of the food of lions and vultures...let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Loss, Animal

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• When grown people speak of the innocence of children, they dont really know what they mean. Pressed, they will go a step further and say, Well, ignorance then. The child is neither. There is no crime which a boy of eleven had not envisaged long ago. His only innocence is, he may not be old enough to desire the fruits of it...his ignorance is, he does not know how to commit it...

  William Faulkner

  Children, Ignorance, Mean

  "The Reivers". Book by William Faulkner, 1962.

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• An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines.

  Toni Morrison

  Fall, Angel, Godly

  "Tar Baby". Book by Toni Morrison, 1981.

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• It is Australian innocence to love The naturally excessive and be proud Of a thoroughbred gelding who ran fast.

  Peter Porter

  Sports, Proud, Thoroughbreds

  Peter Porter (1961). “Once bitten, twice bitten: poems”

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• The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Nature, Cheer

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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• Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Guilt, Shame, Confession

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• The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Mines, Resolute

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie (1807). “The plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators”, p.239

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• The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it. I am little comfort to myself, although I am the only comfort I have, excepting perhaps streets, clouds, the sun, the faces and voices of kids and the aged, and similar accidents of beauty, innocence, truth and loneliness.

  William Saroyan

  Running, Loneliness, Kids

  "My Heart's in the Highlands". Book by William Saroyan, 1939.

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