Baby Quote by Alice Morse Earle

“He had thought of childhood as something intimate and pure, inside his home, his family. Instead of that, in Deborah's school he had been…

— Earnest Poole

“He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life…

— Henry James

“He was a precocious and delicate little boy, quivering with the malaise of being unloved. When we played, his child's heart would come into…

— Harold Brodkey

“The puckered-up face of the newly-born child, old as the world, wise as the roots of trees. Sin was there and goodness, love, pity…

— Mervyn Peake

“The habit of doubt; of distrusting his own judgment and of totally rejecting the judgment of the world; the tendency to regard every question…

— Henry Adams

“There he was. The infant Titus. His eyes were open but he was quite still. The puckered-up face of the newly-born child, old as…

— Mervyn Peake

“The little girl’s eyes were squeezed tightly shut and she bore the angry expression unique to babies who had just been wrenched from the…

— Kathryn Hughes

“Puritanism, he said, was a reaction to the loss of moral fiber that accompanied the Renaissance.”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

Father was very sympathetic, and if the hero of a romance was good or to be pitied, his eyes would fill with tears until…

— Frederick Banting

The end he had been born to serve yet did not see had led him to escape by an unseen path and now it…

— James Joyce

“He was a priest now, pagan, half-naked in the night, performing obscure rites of interment. Or he was the lead player in his own…

— Garth Risk Hallberg

He saw merchants trading, princes hunting, mourners wailing for their dead, whores offering themselves, physicians trying to help the sick, priests determining the most…

— Anonymous