Quotes about Innocence
Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.
- Dante Alighieri
Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
- Charles Dickens
unchanging truth, that unless we become as little children in the doing of our Heavenly Father's Will, we cannot enter into our Eternal Home.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
Trippa, troppa, tronjes, De varken's in de boonjes, De koejes in de klaver, De paardeen in de haver, De eenjes in de water-plass! So groot myn kleine (here insert the little boy's or little girl's name)
- Theodore Roosevelt
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
- Henry David Thoreau
Marvelous are the innocent.
- Virginia Woolf
There was a serenity about him always that had the look of innocence, when, technically, the word was no longer applicable.
- Virginia Woolf
Had they not been taken, she asked, to circuses when they were children? Never, he answered, as if she asked the very thing he wanted; had been longing all these days to say, how they did not go to circuses.
- Virginia Woolf
Stepping through fields of flowers and taking to her breast buds that had broken and lambs that had fallen; with the stars in her eyes and the wind in her hair— He took her bag.
- Virginia Woolf
Stepping through fields of flowers and taking to her brest buds that had broken and lambs that had fallen; with the stars in her eyes and wind in her hair— he took her bag.
- Virginia Woolf
It is good to be children sometimes, and never better that at Christmas, when its might Founder was a child Himself.
- Charles Dickens
It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.
- Charles Dickens