Infant Quotes

288 Infant quotes by 229 unique authors

Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze. — William Cowper
Gambling houses are temples where the most sordid and turbulent passions contend; there no spectator can be indifferent. A card or a small square of… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
How often a mother initiates a conversation with her child is not predictive of the language outcomes - what matters is, if the infant initiates,… — Po Bronson
The spirit, if it could be seen with mortal eyes, would appear in bodily shape like a full-grown person with individual endowments that make it… — Harold B. Lee
He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy. — Robert Moses
If I had the power to influence Indian journals, I would have the following headlines printed in bold letters on the first page: Milk for… — Lala Lajpat Rai
The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents. There is in the nature… — D. H. Lawrence
When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists. — Stephen Fry
The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants. — Johnny Depp
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned. — Denis Diderot
Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest… — Marian Wright Edelman
It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we… — Augustus Hare
One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream. — Don Marquis
Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used our wits to… — David Suzuki
The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear. — Robert Anton Wilson
We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it. But… — Marilynne Robinson
Nothing happens carelessly. We’re not brought into the world without reason, even though we may never understand the reason. An infant that lives an hour,… — Clive Barker
I remember staring at my son endlessly when he was an infant, stunned by his very existence, wondering where on earth he had come from. — Anne Lamott
Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities, but the girls stay home, become… — Greg Mortenson
Believe nothing a man tells you and everything he shows you"....(Taken from a farewell video from a dying father to his infant daughter on dating) — Randy Pausch
Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles. — William Blake
Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires. — William Blake
Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his infant; the rapist who… — Jodi Picoult
Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors.… — Diane Ackerman

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