Innocent Quotes

We have obligations towards the innocent, the dead, towards the living, towards our children and their children.

But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for?

With cropping, a new integrity appears and winning abstractions flutter up like butterflies. You can afford to be critical, discriminating, innocent, open-minded, charmed, beguiled or bamboozled.

Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.

A little amateur painting in water colors shows the innocent and the quiet mind.

I was a God-fearing child, innocent and physically attractive.

At some point in this death-penalty debate, the sanctity of innocent life demands that men and women of conservative conscience have to say: Enough.

If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.

He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.

How are we justly to determine in a world where there are no innocent ones to judge the guilty?

There is an investment of your own life experience in something as innocent as colour.

Nothing is truly infamous, but what is wicked; and therefore shame can never disturb an innocent and virtuous mind.

The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation.

Jesus is the ultimate Job, the only truly innocent sufferer.

Hold back the tide. Keep your kids innocent as long as possible.

I went with my husband and an innocent child to California. I went to a theatrical manager and asked him to allow me to earn money enough on the stage to buy our tickets home. He did.

The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

I seemed like a baby bird keeping its truly innocent animal lusts hidden under its wing. I was being tempted, not by the desire of possession, but simply by unadorned temptation itself.

No innocent person ever has an alibi.

A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening.

Without guilt / What is a man? An animal, isn't he? / A wolf forgiven at his meat, / A beetle innocent in his copulation.

We killed 6 innocent people, launching 22, I think $3 million apiece missiles on Baghdad...that's a little bit overdoing it.

I've always tried to have a rule that you shouldn't make fun of innocent people who can't defend themselves. I find that a little unseemly and distasteful. But nothing's really sacred to me.

God made all pleasures innocent.

This backlog affects not just the ability to identify and convict the guilty, but it also affects our ability to identify the innocent.

I can't stand by and allow tens of thousands of innocent people to be slaughtered for lies.

Truly decent, innocent people can be taxing to be around.

Like love, travel makes you innocent again.

The ones who look the most suspicious are likely innocent. It's the ones who look innocent I need to beware.

Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower.

Everything depends on the value we give to things. We are the ones who make morality and virtue. The cannibal who eats his neighbor is as innocent as the child who sucks his barley-sugar.

There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.

The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble; but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.

I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?

No one comes unless they're drawn by the voice of desire that leads em along, to the redemption of what went wrong by the blood that covers the Innocent One.

I took the role of Ophelia in Hamlet because she is so naive, loving, and innocent.

That disapproving look was back in her eyes. Her teacher face. The one that could make you squirm from ten paces, even if you were innocent. And I hadn't been innocent for years.

You think I'd cheat on you?" I demanded with all the innocent outrage I could muster. "With another guy, no. With a cheeseburger . . . in a heartbeat.

Everything done by the state is ultimately done by means of aggression, which is to say violence or the threat of violence against the innocent.

I look upon the pleasure we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life.

First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy.

The innocent are punished. That's the world we live in.

People who hate God... take it out on innocent people.

Seeing results flow from my gifts is my greatest pleasure as a philanthropist - whether exonerating a jailed innocent or completing a Frank Gehry building. I want to enjoy my philanthropy.

A serious person can never be innocent, and one who is innocent can never be serious.

It takes balls to execute an innocent man.

The best thing about candy is that it can't be spoiled by the adult world. Candy is innocent.

An innocent little human being was solely dependent on me! I took all the CPR and breastfeeding classes and learned quite a bit.

It's hard to see how anyone can fail to care about innocent children and animals being blown up by landmines.

The big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent nose, In piteous chase.