Infant Quotes

288 quotes by 229 authors

Parents of handicapped children are occasionally embarrassed or hurt by others who awkwardly express sympathy but cannot know or appreciate the depth of the parents… — James E. Faust
An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have… — Thomas Traherne
But she named the infant "Pearl," as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother's only treasure! — Nathaniel Hawthorne
I felt very maternal around eight months. And I thought I couldn't become any more until I saw the baby... But it happened during my… — Beyonce Knowles
Little by little, wean yourself. This is the gist of what I have to say. From an embryo whose nourishment comes in the blood, move… — Unknown Author
He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of… — Ludwig von Mises
The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state. — Thomas Jefferson
The infant periods of most nations are buried in silence or veiled in fable; and the world perhaps has lost but little which it needs… — James Madison
We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way… — Tryon Edwards
Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God. No one is excepted, not [even]… — Ambrose
Every soul that is born into flesh is soiled by the filth of wickedness and sin. . . . In the Church, baptism is given… — Origen
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… — Origen
You see how many are the benefits of baptism, and some think its heavenly grace consists only in the remission of sins, but we have… — Saint John Chrysostom
God's love does not distinguish between the infant in the mother's womb or the child or the youth or the adult or the older person.… — Pope Benedict XVI
What shall I say! And how shall I describe this Birth to you? For this wonder fills me with astonishment. The Ancient of Days has… — Saint John Chrysostom
A newborn has more skills than does a politician. The infant babbles, burbles, cuddles, coos; the politician just babbles. — Unknown Author
He [Jesus] came to save all through himself; all, I say, who through him are reborn in God: infants, and children, and youths, and old… — Irenaeus of Lyons
You abilities are too infant-like for doing much alone. — William Shakespeare
The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship is but the expansion of… — Unknown Author
Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so like them, when fully understood,… — William Buckland

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