#innocence

Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world. ↗

— Eartha Kitt

#exciting things #innocence #most #things #world

There's nothing more contagious than the laughter of young children; it doesn't even have to matter what they're laughing about. ↗

— Criss Jami

#children #contagious #contagiousness #funny #humor

It doesn't bother me that Seven has such an overtly sexual presence, because she has no concept of what effect that physical package would have on some male member of the crew. That's what's fun, her innocence. ↗

— Jeri Ryan

#bother #concept #crew #effect #fun

Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience. ↗

— Brooke Shields

#best #dealing #ever #experience #filmmaker

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

#completely #ever #goodness #innocence #just

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

— Adrian Mitchell

#been #blake #experience #friends #his

I saw something I could never forget. I saw lifetimes of acknowledgement, fear, wisdom, questioning, and understanding in a child's eye. It was the worst thing I would ever witness. ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#fear #innocence #life-lessons #life-loss #questioning

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

#innocence #experience

the cold winds of insecurity... hadn't shredded the dreamy chrysalis of his childhood. He was still immersed in the dim, wet wonder of the folded wings that might open if someone loved him; he still hoped, probably, in a butterfly's unthinking way, for spring and warmth. How the wings ache, folded so, waiting; that is, they ache until they atrophy. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#innocence #love

Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted. ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#ellen-hopkins #fallout #innocence #love #love