Innocence Quotes - Page 32

• If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Integrity, Differences, Humanity

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• Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Art, Children, Knowledge

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• It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.

  Tom Hiddleston

  War, Loss, Generations

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• Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.

  Kin Hubbard

  Inspiration, Men, Innocent Man

  Kin Hubbard, David S. Hawes (1995). “The Best of Kin Hubbard: Abe Martin's Sayings and Wisecracks, Abe's Neighbors, His Almanack, Comic Drawings”, p.14, Indiana University Press

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• When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Teacher, Children, Parent

  "'For me, England is a mythical place'". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2005.

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• People do see me as sweet and innocent. Not to say that I am not those things. But I have other sides to me.

  Janet Jackson

  Sweet, People, Sides

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

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• I think scent is sensual. I guess evoking a mood or a spirit is key, and I think with the women's fragrances we have evoked different types, moods or sensibilities of a woman - whether it's Daisy with the sweetness and the innocence or Lola which is more provocative, sexy and sultry.

  Marc Jacobs

  Sexy, Thinking, Keys

  "Marc Jacobs Reveals The Naked Truth". GO Interview, gq.co.za. September 7, 2015.

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• Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.

  Jewel

  Being Sad, Lost Friendship, Needs

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• I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

  Angelina Jolie

  Children, Able, Return

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• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

  Carl Jung

  Children, Knowledge, Parenting

  Carl Gustav Jung, Karl Kerényi (1951). “Introduction to a science of mythology: the myth of the Divine Child and the mysteries of Eleusis”

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• He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

  John Lennon

  Children, Ocean, Sleep

  "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Fatherhood". Book by Kevin Osborn, p. 134, October 1, 1999.

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• Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Firsts, Film, Burden

  City Limits magazine, London, April 7, 1988.

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• You do not have to incriminate yourself. But once you assert your innocence, and once you say you didn't do anything wrong, you can't then use the Fifth Amendment to say, 'I'm not answering questions.'

  Rush Limbaugh

  Use, Answering Questions, Fifth Amendment

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• Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.

  John Lydon

  States

  "76 minutes with ... John Lydon". Interview with Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2012.

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• Having a birthday cake squashed into your face by young kids? Delicious. I always don a Santa suit at Christmas. Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.

  John Lydon

  Birthday, Kids, Cake

  "76 minutes with ... John Lydon". Interview with Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2012.

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• I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.

  Tobey Maguire

  Character, Soul, Might

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• Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Blessed, Yield, Blood

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• Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Quality, Needs

  Attributed to Margaret Mead in Fleur L. Strand "Physiology: A Regulatory Systems Approach" (p. 509), 1978.

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• Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Teaching, Simple

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Government, Presumption Of Innocence, Generations

  "Dee Dee Myers : Press Secretary to an Administration Full of Talkers". Interview with Thomas B. Rosenstiel, articles.latimes.com. March 20, 1994.

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• I see, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance.

  Franz Kafka

  Book, Ignorance, Law

  Franz Kafka (1983). “The Penguin complete novels of Franz Kafka”

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• Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.

  Milan Kundera

  Memories, Children, Past

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

  Federico Fellini

  Childhood, Important, Matter

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• They come to us, these restless dead, Shrouds woven from the words of men, With trumpets sounding overhead (The walls of hope have grown so thin And all our vaunted innocence Has withered in this endless frost) That promise little recompense For all we risk, for all we've lost.

  Mira Grant

  Wall, Men, Risk

  Mira Grant (2010). “Feed: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.111, Hachette UK

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• O God, I love you to the edge of madness, Venetia, but I'm not mad yet--not so mad that I don't know how disastrous it might be to you--to us both! You don't realize what an advantage I should be taking of your innocence!

  Georgette Heyer

  Love You, Mad, Might

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