Infancy Quotes

From my infancy I was imbued with high hopes and a lofty ambition.

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age.

— Henry David Thoreau

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

— Henry Bolingbroke

The critic does his utmost to blight genius in his infancy.

— Thomas Love Peacock

Admiration spoils all from infancy.

— Blaise Pascal

I fought for my survival since infancy.

— Soon-Yi Previn

Heaven lies around us in our infancy.

— William Golding

I've protected my protracted period of infancy. For many years. And I have no desire to become an adult.

— David Gordon Green

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— Kamil Ali

Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the…

— William Lilly

CHILDHOOD: The rapidly shrinking interval between infancy and first arrest on a drug or weapons charge.

— Rick Bayan

“It is quite uninteresting; that is why one comes out." — Temeraire, on being inside an egg ”

— Naomi Novik

Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

— Antonio Porchia

It is hard to look at the tumor and not come away with the feeling that one has encountered a powerful monster…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

From infancy onward, children are the most fantastic learners in the world.

— Daniel Quinn

The inhabitants of the other spots reason in like manner, of course, with the result that from early infancy the mind of…

— Emma Goldman

From infancy, almost, the average girl is told that marriage is her ultimate goal; therefore her training and education must be directed…

— Emma Goldman

Women are from their very infancy debarred those advantages with the want of which they are aftewards reproached, and nursed up in…

— Mary Astell

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

— Emanuel Swedenborg

[Sigmund ] Freud assumes that every dream represents the satisfaction of adesire and in the last analysis, of a sexual desire that…

— Erich Fromm

Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then…

— Francis Bacon

From early infancy, it appears that our ability to regulate emotional states depends upon the experience of feeling that a significant person…

— Anonymous

Our survival as a human community may depend as much upon our nurture of love in infancy and childhood as upon the…

— Selma Fraiberg

North Korea invites parody. We laugh at the excesses of the propaganda and the gullibility of the people. But consider that their…

— Barbara Demick

The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our…

— Andrea Dworkin

If they [enlightened men] take any interest in examining, in the infancy of our species, the almost obliterated traces of so many…

— Georges Cuvier

The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most of us want to tell our coworkers or friends, or husbands or wives, our ideas. For what reason? We want validation.…

— Sara Blakely

To some degree, the critic arises out of that negativity bias in that our brains are oriented towards threat and toward survival.…

— Mark Coleman

... one of the blind spots of most Negroes is their failure to realize that small overtures from whites have a large…

— Sarah-Patton Boyle

To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm…

— Samuel Johnson

Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth…

— Vladimir Nabokov

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction…

— George Santayana

When will you disembarrass yourselves of the lymphatic ideology of that deplorable Ruskin, which I would like to cover with so much…

— Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Navajo infants get so attached to cradleboard that they cry to be tied into it. Kikuyu infants in Kenya get handed around…

— Melvin Konner

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

— John Playfair

Ugliness, squalor are breeding grounds for revolution. Beauty is conducive to tranquillity, happiness. Beautifying of homes and places of worship began with…

— B. C. Forbes