Infant Quotes
288 Infant quotes by 229 unique authors
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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
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What is wrong with me i just bought a bag of weed from an infant.
— Dave Chappelle
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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
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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
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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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He knows well the evening star, and once when he awoke, in a most distressful mood (some inward pain had made up that strange thing,…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration camp as I…
— Sylvia Ashton-Warner
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The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for…
— Mary Blakely
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But what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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There is not much you can say about a baby unless you are talking with its father or another mother or nurse; infants are not…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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An angel, legend has it, took pity on a little shepherd girl who had nothing to give to the Infant Jesus in his manger. The…
— Allen Lacy
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[My] excursions provided a unique opportunity for observing [the gorillas' behavior] in their natural habitat... Then, all too soon, the infants were demanded for their…
— Dian Fossey
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Women have millions of years of genetically-enc oded intelligences, intuitions, capacities, knowledges, powers, and cellular knowings of exactly what to do with the infant.
— Joseph Chilton Pearce
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Infinite, and an infant. Eternal, and yet born of a woman. Almighty, and yet hanging on a woman’s breast. Supporting a universe, and yet needing…
— Charles Spurgeon
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We all have an infant inside of us, but the infant doesn't have to run the show.
— Murray Bowen
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The first duty of the educator, whether he is involved with the newborn infant or the older child, is to recognize the human personality of…
— Maria Montessori
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What infants need is the opportunity and time to take in and figure out the world around them.
— Magda Gerber
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When you hold an infant, hold him not just with your body, but with your mind and heart.
— Magda Gerber
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We not only respect babies, we demonstrate our respect every time we interact with them. Respecting a child means treating even the youngest infant as…
— Magda Gerber
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An infant always learns. The less we interfere with the natural process of learning, the more we can observe how much infants learn all the…
— Magda Gerber
Who Wrote These Infant Quotes
229 authors contributed a total of 288 Infant Quotes, led by these top contributors: