Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.

Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.

The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.

It may part of a one way evolution... or it may be we are currently on the downside of an innocence cycle where one day, with an up cycle, sweet will be entertaining again.

I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did.

What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?

Innocence is always unsuspicious.

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.

The pain comes from knowing that we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be so ignorant again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again. Losing innocence. Remembering heaven. That was the essence of hell.

Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him today.

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.

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

The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

All things truly wicked start from innocence.