Infancy Quotes

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If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils. — P.D. James
There is something so tender about this to me, about being willing to have your makeup wash off, your eyes tear up, your nose start… — Anne Lamott
But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun.; and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species. — Christopher Hitchens
Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. From a biological point of view it is inconceivable that any… — Neil Postman
Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy. — William Wordsworth
In any age courage is the simple virtue needed for a human being to traverse the rocky road from infancy to maturity of personality. But… — Rollo May
We are our world knowing itself. We can relinquish our separateness. We can come home again - and participate in our world in a richer,… — Joanna Macy
Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms… — Christopher Hitchens
He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy.… — Saint Augustine
I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend… — Mark Twain
If they [enlightened men] take any interest in examining, in the infancy of our species, the almost obliterated traces of so many nations that have… — Georges Cuvier
For millions of girls around the world, motherhood comes too early. Those who bear children as adolescents suffer higher maternal mortality and morbidity rates, and… — Esther Duflo
Transsexualism is far less common than homosexuality, and the research is in its infancy. Scattered studies have looked at brain activity, finger size, familial recurrence,… — Hanna Rosin
From infancy, I had been accustomed to hear pro and con discussions of slavery and the American Civil War. Although the British government finally decided… — Emmeline Pankhurst
From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work. — Alice Walker
There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of Jamestown, New Amsterdam,… — Alice Morse Earle
The focus in the Western pictorial tradition is on the body of Christ, the bit you can paint, the Nativity and the infancy, but above… — Neil MacGregor
Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from… — Robert Owen
In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning… — Henri Bergson

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