Infant Quotes

288 Infant quotes by 229 unique authors

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant. — Edmund Burke
We live in a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants, in a world that has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. We have… — Omar N. Bradley
And only the very courageous will be able to keep alive the spirit of individualism and dissent which gave birth to this nation, nourished it… — John F. Kennedy
GLOUCESTER: I do not know that Englishman alive With whom my soul is any jot at odds, More than the infant that is born to-night:… — William Shakespeare
To make love is to become like this infant again. We grope with our mouths toward the body of another being, whom we trust, who… — Susan Griffin
We see the water of a river flowing uninterruptedly and passing away, and all that floats on its surface, rubbish or beams of trees, all… — Tikhon of Zadonsk
As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form. — Avicenna
When a baby is in the room with two women, and one is considered more beautiful than the other, the infant's eyes will go to… — Susan Anton
Short of preventing harm to the child, the standard of 'best interest of the child' is insufficient to serve as a compelling state interest overruling… — Unknown Author
Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never… — Thomas Traherne
Even when adults do feel their safety to be threatened, we may not be able to see this on the surface. Infants will react in… — Abraham Maslow
...there is a fine line between wishing to produce child-like astonishment and treating people like infants. — Derren Brown
It is as great a crime to leave a woman alone in her agony and deny her relief from her suffering as it is to… — Grantly Dick-Read
Infants and young children are not just sitting twiddling their thumbs, waiting for their parents to teach them to read and do math. They are… — David Elkind
This seems counterintuitive, but turns out that as infant mortality is reduced, population sizes also decrease, because parents don't need to anticipate that their babies… — Jane Chen
Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated. — Andy Rooney
One cannot watch chimpanzee infants for long without realizing that they have the same emotional need for affection and reassurance as human children. — Jane Goodall
The relic from before birth Enters one's heart one day. Be as careful as if you were holding a full vessel, Be as gentle as… — Sun Bu'er
Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant. — Leigh Hunt
Let's take care of mothers and infants first, and then let's see what's left over for everybody over 50. I'm over 50. If I get… — Richard Dooling
Prayer is the lisping of the believing infant, the shout of the fighting believer, the requiem of the dying saint falling asleep in Jesus. — Charles Spurgeon
What is wrong with me i just bought a bag of weed from an infant. — Dave Chappelle
It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings and… — Thomas Jefferson
Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we… — Jack Abbott
Isaac Newton was born at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham, in Lincolnshire, on Christmas Day, 1642: a weakly and diminutive infant, of whom it is related that,… — Augustus De Morgan

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