A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.
Martin Farquhar Tupper

All things truly wicked start from innocence.
Ernest Hemingway

All we can do is keep going up against then as long as Ray is alive because when he dies it will not be possible to establish the truth of his innocence in a court of law.
William Pepper

America fell in love with the innocence of a kid who just was honest, saying, I did the best I could, and I had no formal training.
Paula Abdul

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.
Todd Gitlin

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.
Angela Carter

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.
Giorgio de Chirico

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
Jeanette Winterson

Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether popular.
Maximilien Robespierre

Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.
Denis Diderot

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

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

But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot, what movies are not hot, what the budget of this movie might be.
David Cronenberg

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

Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?
Johan Huizinga

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
Albert Camus

Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
Lyman Abbott

Every life is march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.
Lyman Abbott

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

I didn't do what they said I did. I may have done enough so that I don't know if I can prove my innocence.
Dick Morris