Infancy Quotes

175 quotes by 154 authors

The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men,… — Andrea Dworkin
Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery? — Murray Banks
If men can be made to understand that society, with its rigid codes and stratifications, is in its confused infancy rather than in the apex… — Joost Meerloo
But if in the pursuit of the means we should unfortunately stumble again on unfunded paper money or any similar species of fraud, we shall… — George Washington
Pressure, no doubt, has always been a most important factor in the metamorphism of rocks; but there is, I think, at present some danger in… — Thomas George Bonney
At our theaters we only see feeble copies of the copies that have proceeded them, renounce that slavish routine which keeps your art in its… — Jean-Georges Noverre
In Western society, and particularly in American society, imagination is stulified from infancy. The imaginative child is discouraged and upbraided. He is told that the… — Philip Wylie
On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its… — Fredrik Bajer
My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood. — Jeffrey Eugenides
A sense of belonging is a sine qua non of healthy psychological functioning everywhere. Such a sense, beginning in infancy and continuing throughout life, comes… — Maureen O'Hara
In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders. — Jack Kingston
For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes… — Thomas More
LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system - an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly… — Ambrose Bierce
What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in our infancy when… — John Flavel
The mass of people who are Bible-taught never get free from the erroneous impressions stamped on their minds in their infancy, so that their manhood… — Gerald Massey
When mankind was in its infancy, steeped in uncertainty, ignorance, and error, was it possible to foresee what system it would adopt for preservation. — Simon Bolivar
Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached. — Mary Astell
Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of… — Thomas de Quincey
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 is… — Emanuel Swedenborg

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