Innocence And Growing Up Tkam Quotes

When I was a kid growing up in New York, I was pretty unaware of racism. I think when we're young - before we lose our innocence - we're sort of unaware of the more flawed qualities of each other. ~ Dave Matthews

I've always felt this, from when I was growing up to now with my son Riley. We don't let them be little. I was not a normal kid, but I had a sense of innocence far longer than we let kids. ~ Melissa Peterman

I lost my innocence very young and it had nothing to do with sex. ~ Jennifer Elisabeth

I just feel like every kid is growing up too fast and they're seeing too much. Everything is about sex, and that's fine for me. I'm not saying I don't like it. But I don't think it should be everywhere, where kids are exposed to everything sexual. Because they have to have some innocence; there's just no innocence left. ~ Ellen DeGeneres

You lost your innocence when you grew up, all right, everyone knew that, but did you have to lose your hope, as well? ~ Stephen King

Today was the end of freedom. High school had fallen behind; college loomed ahead. Tomorrow he traded freedom and Arizona for Colorado and discipline. ~ Tony Taylor

There is no place for innocence in this world. ~ Anthony Neilson

There was no fear of sandpaper earth, no sense of danger from a bare-skinned spill, for the boy was a child - a six-foot, one-inch growing child who knew nothing of accident, injury, dismemberment, death - who would study those lessons tomorrow, thank you, but not today. Today, it would be sufficient to be wild and free. ~ Tony Taylor

There is no place for innocence on the battlefield. ~ Jocelyn Murray

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind. ~ Patrick Rothfuss

In any case, you must remember, my dearest, that the main strength of innocence is innocence itself. farewell. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime. ~ Maximilien Robespierre

Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends. ~ Robert South

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. ~ Susan Sontag

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Survivors are so often re-victimized by a system that demands they prove their purity and innocence. ~ Lena Dunham

My innocence is not lost - it has been converted into wisdom. The sensation we call "breaking" is the pain that comes from resisting the truth. Life broke parts of me that needed to fall away for me to live an open and truthful life. ~ Jewel

Experience had taught me that innocence seldom utters outraged shrikes. Guilt does. Innocence is a mighty shield, and the man or woman covered by it, is much more likely to answer calmly: 'My life is blameless. Look into it, if you like, for you will find nothing.' That is the tone of innocence. ~ Whittaker Chambers

Hold onto your innocence of heart, at all costs! Because it is the spark of deity that you are born with. Don't let the trolls steal your divineness. ~ C. JoyBell C.

Who has believed in the world and died with its name on his lips? ~ Jack Kerouac

There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends. ~ Adrian Mitchell

Innocence is suffering
and the loss of that innocence
is something to fear. ~ Diane Wakoski

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost. ~ Bruce Springsteen

Becoming a child is living toward a second innocence: not the innocence of the newborn infant, but the innocence that is reached through conscious choices. ~ Henri J.M. Nouwen

Listen to the child in you and follow its innocence ~ Munia Khan

The quality of artistry is the capacity to assume innocence at will, the quality of experiencing innocence as if for the first time. ~ Robert Fripp

The loss of innocence is inevitable, but the death of innocence disturbs the natural order. The death of innocence causes an imbalance and initiates an internal war that manifests differently in each individual, but almost always includes anger, withdrawal and severe depression. ~ B.G. Bowers

The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals. ~ Clint Eastwood

There are just some kind of men ... who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one. ~ Harper Lee

Ignorance is not innocence but sin. ~ Robert Browning

My innocence is wearin' thin
But my heart is growing strong. ~ Fifth Harmony

Don't care what people say
Just follow your own way
Don't give up and use the chance
To return to innocence.
That's not the beginning of the end
That's the return to yourself
The return to innocence. ~ Enigma

We live in a time of era where there is no value for innocence. People don't worth the innocence. And innocent people remain the sufferer and vulnerable to the world. ~ Salman Aziz

Children are meant to grow up, and not to become Peter Pans. Not to lose innocence and wonder, but to proceed on the appointed journey: that journey upon which it is certainly not better to travel hopefully than to arrive, though we must travel hopefully if we are to arrive. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

What can innocence hope for, When such as sit her judges are corrupted! ~ Philip Massinger

When innocence trembles, it condemns the judge. ~ Publilius Syrus

I forget nothing and then, one day, there will be revenge. Innocence isn't exactly everywhere. But I will say innocence also takes you far in photography. ~ Karl Lagerfeld

A child's innocence is the one gift, that once stolen, can never be replaced. ~ Jaeda DeWalt

Now my innocence begins to weigh me down. ~ Jean Racine

The loss of innocence is the most severe of growing pains. ~ Tarryn Fisher

I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy. ~ Anita Diamant

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable. ~ Irving Howe

Innocence was a luxury. ~ Leigh Bardugo

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others. ~ Virginia Woolf

Innocence is an infinitely fragile thing and thought can sometimes injure, even destroy it. - Pg. 254 ~ Ellis Peters

Life changes and that's cool. Growing older is amazing, I think. ~ Dane DeHaan

Unicorns are not to be forgiven." The magician felt himself growing giddy with jealousy, not only of the touch but of something like a secret that was moving between Molly and the unicorn. "Unicorns are for beginnings," he said, "for innocence and purity, for newness. Unicorns are for young girls."
Molly was stroking the unicorn's throat as timidly as though she were blind. She dried her grimy tears on the white mane. "You don't know much about unicorns," she said. ~ Peter S. Beagle

India has the purity, the innocence. India knows what it wants. There is a direction. It has so much to offer. ~ Anil Kapoor

Look with complete innocence at the infinitely improbable thing before you. ~ Aldous Huxley

I'm growing fonder of my staff;
I'm growing dimmer in my eyes;
I'm growing fainter in my laugh;
I'm growing deeper in my sighs;
I'm growing careless of my dress;
I'm growing frugal of my gold;
I'm growing wise; I'm growing
yes,
I'm growing old. ~ John Godfrey Saxe

No matter what happens, always Keep your childhood innocence. It's the most important thing. ~ Federico Fellini

Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. ~ Joan Didion

I think it's hard to write about children and to have an idea of innocence. ~ Donna Tartt

When you laugh with good-hearted innocence at your own creations, you are free. ~ Barbara Marciniak

Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it. ~ Louis Kronenberger

Never such innocence,
Never before or since,
As changed itself to past
Without a word
the men
Leaving the gardens tidy,
The thousands of marriages
Lasting a little while longer:
Never such innocence again. ~ Philip Larkin

Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

What hope is there for innocence if it is not recognized? ~ Simone Weil

There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage. ~ Horace

Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older. ~ Georg C. Lichtenberg

Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion. ~ Oscar Wilde

Innocence is indeed a glorious thing; but, unfortunately, it does not keep very well and is easily led astray. ~ Immanuel Kant

Our purpose is to find out whether innocence, the moment it becomes involved in an action, can avoid committing murder. ~ Albert Camus

Innocence invites protection, yet we might be smarter to protect ourselves against it ... ~ Megan Johns

Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled. ~ Immanuel Kant

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is. ~ Kenny Rogers

The snapshot has no pretense or ambition. Innocence is the quintessence of the snapshot. I wish to distinguish between innocence and ignorance. Innocence is one of the highest forms of being and ignorance is one of the lowest. ~ Lisette Model

Stay out of the court of self-judgment, for there is no presumption of innocence. ~ Robert Brault

The innocence I speak of comes with experience. ~ Marty Rubin

In innocence everything has its truest meaning. ~ Calvin W. Allison

Innocence crafts its own demise. ~ F.T. McKinstry

Parents don't want their children to lose that purity and innocence of childhood. We want to bottle that and hold onto that, but it's impossible. ~ Pete Docter

There are no moments more painful for a parent than those in which you contemplate your child's perfect innocence of some imminent pain, misfortune, or sorrow. That innocence (like every kind of innocence children have) is rooted in their trust of you, one that you will shortly be obliged to betray; whether it is fair or not, whether you can help it or not, you are always the ultimate guarantor or destroyer of that innocence. ~ Michael Chabon

Americans prefer to isolate villains who despoil a preexisting innocence, rather than admit that there might not have been any innocence there in the first place. ~ Rick Perlstein

I see you exhausted by poisonous flies; I see you bleeding and torn at a hundred spots; and your pride refuses even to be angry.
They would have blood from you in all innocence; blood is what bloodless souls crave - and therefore they sting in all innocence. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there. ~ Donna Tartt

I think Indian women are very beautiful. They have a sense of elegance and innocence. ~ Pierce Brosnan

I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies. ~ Jack Vance

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured. ~ Joseph Addison

I never had innocence. ~ Bijou Phillips

Innocence is always unsuspicious. ~ Joseph Joubert

The trick is growing up without growing old. ~ Casey Stengel

In every guilty man, there is some innocence. This makes every absolute condemnation revolting. ~ Albert Camus

To preserve your innocence while acquiring intelligence, that is a true mark of wisdom. ~ Charbel Tadros

I have no better way of judging guilt or innocence than anyone else. ~ Robert Shapiro

In her lived an innocence of soul of which she seemed unaware. ~ Nalini Singh

I believe in innocence until there's proof of guilt and all that. ~ Carolyn Hax

The last thing I would accuse a cat of is innocence. ~ Edward Graham Paley

If we depart form tradition, it is out of knowledge , not innocence. ~ Adolph Gottlieb

Credulity is the sister of innocence ... ~ Fanny Burney

We have deprived pain of its innocence. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world. ~ Hector Tobar

Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it. ~ James A. Baldwin

Childish fantasy, like the sheath over the bud, not only protects but curbs the terrible budding spirit, protects not only innocence from the world, but the world from the power of innocence. ~ Elizabeth Bowen

The thing I deplore the most is, anyone who rapes anyone's innocence, in anyway. So a guy who physically rapes a woman or a child or physically hits a child. When that period of innocence is raped - that person loses something that they can never get it back. To me when innocence is raped, that is the sickest and filthiest thing. ~ Kelly Cutrone

A loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation. ~ Dodie Smith

'Good Times' is a story about the loss of innocence, how adults are responsible for their actions but children aren't. ~ Lynda Barry

We would be a few years younger,if every day we meditated for five minutes on the meanings of the word innocence. ~ Alexandra Vasiliu

Innocence is the source of love. ~ Nirmala Srivastava