Top 44 The Age Of Innocence Quotes
#1. The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.
Joseph Joubert
#2. Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.
Ang Lee
#3. When he spoke, his words came with a confusion which was delightful to hear because one felt that it indicated not so much a defect in his speech as a quality of his soul, as it were a survival from the age of innocence which he had never wholly outgrown.
Marcel Proust
#4. Facebook just sounds like a drag, in my day seeing pictures of peoples vacations was considered a punishment
Betty White
#5. You come from Planet Hunk, sent to Earth to protect and serve. And make the ladies happy.
Gini Koch
#6. I wrote 'The Match,' my cricket novel, between 2002 and 2005. In retrospect, almost an age of innocence in cricket and a time when it was rare to find the game deep in fiction.
Romesh Gunesekera
#7. Two imperfect people can make a perfect moment.
Rachel Morgan
#8. While Wall Street firms typically underwrite offerings in teams, the lead underwriter, or manager, of the offering has primary responsibility for selling the offering and reaps much of the fees and profit.
Alex Berenson
#10. Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.
Bo Bennett
#11. It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?
Elizabeth Peters
#12. Death during adolescence feels unfair. We're young. We're invincible. Death is supposed to come with old age. When death breaks into our lives and steals our innocence, its finality leaves us unnaturally older. There are too many elderly young people.
Sara Shandler
#13. The best work of artists in any age is the work of innocence liberated by technical knowledge. The laboratory experiments that led to the theory of pure color equipped the impressionists to paint nature as if it had only just been created.
Nancy Hale
#14. Thank heaven I don't inherit God from anybody! I am free to make mine up as I wish Him. He's kind and sympathetic and imaginative and forgiving and understanding - and He has a sense of humor.
Jean Webster
#16. In an age robbed of religious symbols, going to the shops replaces going to the church. We have a free choice, but at a price. We can win experience, but never achieve innocence. Marx knew that the epic activities of the modern world involve not lance and sword but dry goods.
Stephen Bayley
#17. I think you say the word in your mind anyway, you know. When you look at a word, you say it.
Robert Barry
#18. He bent and laid his lips on her hands, which were cold and lifeless. She drew them away, and he turned to the door, found his coat and hat under the faint gas-light of the hall, and plunged out into the winter night bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate.
Edith Wharton
#19. You are not the happy, unthinking child you have always appeared to be, accepting everything at its face value. You are not just one of the women of the household. You are Renisenb who wants to think for herself, who wonders about other people.
Agatha Christie
#20. I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him.
David Bowie
#22. And I've been your monkey ever since. (Vik)
Nah. You're not my monkey, Vik. You're my bitch. (Devyn)
Of course I am. And I'll remember that the next time your shower door is stuck and you want me to open it ... Wait. That does make me your bitch, doesn't it? Damn, I'm whipped. (Vik)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#23. I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.
John Boyne
#24. The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.
Edith Wharton
#25. A woman stood in front of her with the peculiar poise that comes before the discovery of age and after the loss of innocence.
Donald Kingsbury
#26. There's this assumption that all children have the luxury of a childhood where their innocence is always respected and their main occupation is pleasant play - at the age of 18 or 21, they are then thrust into the real world and shown its uglier side, but not before.
Margo Lanagan
#27. But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime
Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime;
An age that melts with unperceived decay,
And glides in modest Innocence away
Samuel Johnson
#28. I've worked really hard, but I know people who have worked even harder but didn't have the chances I've had.
David Lindsay-Abaire
#29. Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish things. Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#30. War is an arena for the display of courage and virtue. Or war is politics by other means. War is a quasi-mystical experience where you get in touch with the real. There are millions of narratives we impose to try to make sense of war.
Phil Klay
#31. I lost my innocence at age eight, so I decided to do the same to as many young girls as I could.
Pedro
#32. (People who tell you that slamming and bashing into things won't make you feel better haven't slammed or bashed enough.)
Rainbow Rowell
#33. I loved 'Matilda.' The kids are so brilliant and uninhibited. They were inspiring. Seeing them onstage, just going wild, reminded me of when I was that age. I was excited for them and completely taken by their innocence and hard work.
Matthew James Thomas
#34. One of the small consolations of old age, if you are lucky, can be at least a partial recovery of innocence.
Lawrence Fagg
#35. India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion
and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age
Jawaharlal Nehru
#36. He had her in his arms, her face like a wet flower at his lips, and all their vain terrors shriveling up like ghosts at sunrise.
Edith Wharton
#37. [In old age] there is a childlike innocence, often, that has nothing to do with the childishness of senility. The moments become precious ...
May Sarton
#39. But this is an occupational hazard of being a scientist. You say this is the best information I have and then you realize that not everyone is going to read the footnotes or the whole book, so people are going to get the wrong impression.
Bjorn Lomborg
#40. If cynicism is inevitable as one ages, so is the yearning for innocence. To children heaven is being an adult, and to adults heaven is being children again.
Diane Ackerman
#41. After a certain point, the ravages of experience reverse themselves; we put on innocence with advancing age, at least in the minds of others.
Margaret Atwood
#42. I had become conscious of my physicality, aware of my presence and open to the ugly truths of the world. At the age of thirteen, I realised that there was a danger in innocence and beauty, and I could not live with both.
Tracey Emin
#43. I know that age, it's a particularly obstinate one, and a thousand bogies won't make you fear the future. A pity we can't change over.
Daphne Du Maurier
#44. In an age of iPhones and Playstations, it's great to see that somebody's still rocking the bus-on-a-string.
Brandon Stanton
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