Infancy Quotes

175 quotes by 154 authors

Regression to the stage of early infancy is not a suitable method in and of itself. Such a regression can only be effective if it… — Alice Miller
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at… — Michel de Montaigne
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state. — Baron de Montesquieu
Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this… — Herbert Read
Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. — Bertrand Russell
From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few. — John Updike
As an American, you have a right to good health care that is effective, accessible, and affordable, that serves you from infancy through old age,… — Andrew Weil
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn… — Mary Wollstonecraft
America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness… — Felix Dennis
The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Last night I encountered a dream cat with a very long neck and a body like a human fetus, gray and transluscent. I don't know… — William S. Burroughs
No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen… — Jane Austen
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for… — George Santayana
Beginning with Santa in infancy, and ending with the Tooth Fairy as the child acquires adult teeth. Or, plainly put, beginning with all the possibility… — Chuck Palahniuk
I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace. It's something essentially… — Norman Mailer
Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death. — Eleanor Roosevelt
It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry… — John Adams
The plot is so tired that even this reviewer, who in infancy was let drop by a nurse with the result that she has ever… — Dorothy Parker
What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ words to express them. We are born, and our birth… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth in the darkest… — Vladimir Nabokov

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