Tenderness is the infancy of love.

When guilt is in its blush of infancy, it trembles in a tenderness of shame; and the first eye that pierces through the veil…

— Thomas Southerne

Self-acceptance begins in infancy, with the influence of your parents and siblings and other important people. Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely…

— Brian Tracy

“What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text, in the face and behaviour of children, babes, and even brutes! That divided and rebel…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are…

— Agnes Repplier

I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this…

— Mark Twain

In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to Athens, when…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

A person's life from infancy to old age is nothing else than an advance from the world towards heaven, the last stage of which…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

I acknowledge Thee, Lord of heaven and earth, and praise Thee for my first rudiments of being, and my infancy, whereof I remember nothing;…

— Saint Augustine

Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.

— Ambrose Bierce

Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in…

— Samuel Richardson

The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their…

— John Playfair

The focus in the Western pictorial tradition is on the body of Christ, the bit you can paint, the Nativity and the infancy, but…

— Neil MacGregor

Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since it is…

— A.C. Grayling

Heaven lies around us in our infancy.

— William Golding