Innocent Quotes

• I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Age, Way, Innocence

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• Earlier today Martha Stewart issued a statement saying 'I am innocent and will fight to clear my name.' Yeah, Martha then said 'I look forward to the day when people stop thinking I am guilty and get back to thinking I am cold and arrogant.'

  Conan O'Brien

  Fighting, Thinking, Names

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• Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless.

  Mason Cooley

  Children, Power, Innocence

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• There are people who indulge themselves in a sort of lying, which they reckon innocent, and which in one sense is so; for it hurtsnobody but themselves. This sort of lying is the spurious offspring of vanity, begotten upon folly.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Lying, Vanity, People

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.196, Oxford University Press

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• there is probably no such thing as an innocent question, at least not when a parent is doing the asking.

  Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

  Parent, Asking

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• There are very few innocent sentences in writing.

  David Foster Wallace

  Writing, Sentences

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• Picture the moment when your mom and dad first saw you as something other than a pretty, tiny version of them. You as them, but improved. Better educated. Innocent. Then picture when you stopped being their dream.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Mom, Dream, Dad

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey”, p.28, Random House

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• We can heal. Perhaps we can return to that same place we once stood, when we were both young and innocent.

  Marie Lu

  Return, Young, Heal

  Marie Lu (2013). “Champion: A Legend Novel”, p.230, Penguin

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• The innocent is the person who explains nothing

  Albert Camus

  Life, Innocence, Persons

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

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• Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.

  Douglas Sirk

  Character, Innocence

  Douglas Sirk, Jon Halliday (1971). “Sirk on Sirk: interviews with Jon Halliday”, Harvill Secker

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• Always the innocent are the first victims, so it has been for ages past, so it is now.

  J. K. Rowling

  Past, Age, Firsts

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• Genuine and innocent wit is surely the very flavor of the mind.

  Moses Harvey

  Mind, Flavor, Genuine

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• Everyone is innocent unless proven otherwise.

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  Innocence, Proven

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• A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.

  Elizabeth I

  Innocence, Fear Nothing, Clear

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• The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

  Stephen King

  Trust, Liars, Lying

  Stephen King (2016). “Needful Things”, p.507, Simon and Schuster

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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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• The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beautiful, Time, Enemy

  The Winding Stair (1929) "In Memory of Eva Gore Booth and Con Markiewicz"

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• No matter what mistakes we might have made yesterday, today is the day we can retrieve our innocence.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Mistake, Past

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Nov 10, 2011

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• I am not guilty, I am innocent.

  Saddam Hussein

  Innocence, Guilty, Not Guilty

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• The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

  Malcolm X

  Wisdom, Powerful, Print Media

  "The Awakening of Global Consciousness: A Guide to Self-Realization and Spirituality". Book by Dr. Jawara D. King, p.199, 2010.

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• The artificial is always innocent.

  Frank O'Hara

  Innocence, Artificial

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.23, Univ of California Press

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• Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.

  Anthony Anderson

  Innocence, Victim, Innocent Victims

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

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• We become innocent when we are unfortunate.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Innocence, Unfortunate

  "Nymphes de Vaux". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1662.

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• Become more and more innocent, less knowledgeable and more childlike. Take life as fun - because that's precisely what it is!

  Rajneesh

  Fun, Selfless, Innocence

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• In God's pattern of justice, He takes the risk of the guilty going free but not the innocent being punished.

  Max Anders

  Justice, Risk, Patterns

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