Infant Quotes
More generally, people who lived in a period when maternal, infant and childhood mortality were still high would have been tougher than most of us can imagine.
Presbyterianism without infant damnation would be like the dog on the train that couldn't be identified because it had lost its tag.
It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the best they can.
The beginner hugs his infant poem to him and does not want it to grow up. But you may have to break your poem to remake it.
I’m the one who looks at the infant, smiles nervously, and as my contribution to small talk, robotically announces to the parent, “Your child looks healthy and well cared for.
Parents sometimes think of newborns as helpless creatures, but in fact parents' behavior is much more under the infant's control than the reverse. Does he come running when you cry?
All babies are incoherent, but they grow up. That is the principle difference between an infant and a poet.
When a baby is in the room with two women, and one is considered more beautiful than the other, the infant's eyes will go to the more beautiful one.
I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration camp as I took out on the children what life should have got.
The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity.
Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold?
I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them.
GLOUCESTER: I do not know that Englishman alive With whom my soul is any jot at odds, More than the infant that is born to-night: I thank my God for my humility.
Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.
Our parents would not be ‘The best parents in the world’ (to us) if they were not our parents.
It is a sign of immaturity to believe that being older than someone (automatically) makes you more (mentally) mature than them.
There’s an infant part in our souls which longs for the lullaby truths of life every night for a tranquil slumber.
If an infant had the capacity to think hard about this world, it would have wanted to go back to its mother's womb again
...And maybe one day you will wake up as an infant in a completely different universe, and your entire life thus far was just one big dream.
There is no God for sure, else how could one justify terminal diseases in small kids?
Adoption is the most intentional process on Earth.
Facing a language you don't know is like returning to your infancy when your mother tongue used to be a foreign language to you
We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.
Life isn't about how comfortable I can be it is about learning how to get comfortable with being uncomfortable
This is the wonder of Christmas, that in the solitary form of an impoverished infant God has handed me everything that I could never create so that I can be everything that I could never be.
Love at infancy is the strongest and puriest of all, it is mixed with infatuation and deep happiness. Persistent smile brings out hollow dimples, and persistent frowns brings out hollow wrinkles.
Love at infancy is the strongest and puriest of all, it is mixed with infatuation and deep happiness.
Adoption is a beautiful, burdensome blessing.
When we die, we go into the arms of those who remember us.