As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I wanted to be supportive of parents rather than to scold them. The book set out very deliberately to counteract some of… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
The average Mexican lives longer now than the average Briton did in 1955. Infant mortality is lower today in Nepal than it… — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
Normally an infant learns to use his mother as a "beacon of orientation" during the first five months of life. The mother's… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
Dr. [Paula] Menyuk and her co-workers [at Boston University's School of Education] found that parents who supplied babies with a steady stream… — Jane Brody Copy Share Image
[Madness] happened so frequently. I think what I was most maddest about - and it's in the book [Speaking Freely: A Memoir]… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
The Church received from the apostles the tradition of giving baptism even to infants. The apostles, to whom were committed the secrets… — Origen Copy Share Image
Nothing happens carelessly. We’re not brought into the world without reason, even though we may never understand the reason. An infant that… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“The baby looks like an infant, he doesn’t look like anybody. He’s barely even a somebody himself.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
An empty book is like an Infant's soul, in which anything may be written, — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I tend to [have] a lot of ideas but then just leave them in that infant form and kind of move on. — James Mercer Copy Share Image
“I pray I die before they day comes when I do not know if my sons are infants or grandfathers.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pity the poor infant. Born perfect into the world from imperfect parents. — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
Silent night, holy night. All is calm, all is bright. Round yon Virgin Mother and Child. Holy Infant so tender and mild.… — Joseph Mohr Copy Share Image
GLOUCESTER: I do not know that Englishman alive With whom my soul is any jot at odds, More than the infant that… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Empathy frequently informs our earliest days with our infants as we try to figure out what they need, how to comfort and… — Katherine Ellison Copy Share Image
Thomas More rarely discussed his siblings, and two of them are never mentioned by him. It is likely that they were part… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All adults who care about a baby will naturally be in competition for that baby… Each adult wishes that he or she… — T. Berry Brazelton Copy Share Image
The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell "God" with the wrong blocks. — Edwin Arlington Robinson Copy Share Image
“Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
The more innocuous the name of a weapon, the more hideous its impact. Some of the most horrific weapons of the Vietnam… — Paul Dickson Copy Share Image
I must confess my distaste for any proposal to use public funds for the support of selected, and thereby, privileged, industrialists, the… — John James Cowperthwaite Copy Share Image
Personality and mind, like moustaches, belong to a certain age. They are a deformity in a child… Leave his sensibilities, his emotions,… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Parents of handicapped children are occasionally embarrassed or hurt by others who awkwardly express sympathy but cannot know or appreciate the depth… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
The colicky baby who becomes calm, the quiet infant who throws temper tantrums at two, the wild child at four who becomes… — Ellen Galinsky Copy Share Image
As I got older, I discovered that nothing within me cried out for a baby. My womb did not seem to have… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
[My] excursions provided a unique opportunity for observing [the gorillas' behavior] in their natural habitat... Then, all too soon, the infants were… — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
To make love is to become like this infant again. We grope with our mouths toward the body of another being, whom… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
They who love to inform themselves, are never idle. Though I have no business of consequence to take care of, I am… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Wine's terrible for babies." Dorian swept into the sitting room to join me, elegantly arranging himself on a love seat that displayed… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
A cruel joke has been played on us. We are fated always to remember what we learned but never to recall the… — Jo Coudert Copy Share Image
It is noticeable how intuitively in age we go back with strange fondness to all that is fresh in the earliest dawn… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Nearly everyone underestimates how powerful the touch of another person's hand can be. The need to be touched is something so primal,… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I was an infant when my mother went To see an atheist burned. She took me there. The dark-robed priests were met… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Short of preventing harm to the child, the standard of 'best interest of the child' is insufficient to serve as a compelling… — Barbara Madsen Copy Share Image
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![“[Madness] happened so frequently. I think what I was most maddest about - and it's in the book [Speaking Freely: A Memoir] - when the House and the Senate, back in 1984, were debating a bill that would - at least delay and maybe stop some of the ex - summary execution of disabled children…” quote by Nat Hentoff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dbb/nat-hentoff-1615_bills_madness-happened-so-frequently-i-think-w_1571691.jpg)
![“The Church received from the apostles the tradition of giving baptism even to infants. The apostles, to whom were committed the secrets of the divine sacraments, knew there are in everyone innate strains of [original] sin, which must be washed away through water and the Spirit” quote by Origen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cb8/origen-12126_apostles_the-church-received-from-the-apostles-th_199967.jpg)
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![“[My] excursions provided a unique opportunity for observing [the gorillas' behavior] in their natural habitat... Then, all too soon, the infants were demanded for their trip to the zoo. ... [H]appily the babies did not know they would never see their mountain home again” quote by Dian Fossey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b1b/dian-fossey-18586_baby_my-excursions-provided-a-unique-opportun_3179078.jpg)
