Infant Quote by Harriet Martineau Download Open image “I think that few people are aware how early it is right to respect the modesty of an infant.” — Harriet Martineau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Infant Modesty People Thinking
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
We are all born rude. No infant has ever appeared yet with the grace to understand how inconsiderate it is to disturb others in… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
I took little interest in fleshly infants; it being my private opinion that their attractions did not justify the fuss that was made about… — Dorothy Cottrell Copy Share Image
Infants manners are moulded more by the example of Parents, then by stars at their nativities. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
“Some babies are less secure in the presence of strangers and that is when they need the breast most, yet in industrialised society this… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
There is the possibility that humankind can outgrow its infantile tendencies, as I suggested in 'Childhood's End.' But it is amazing how childishly gullible… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Modesty is bred of self-reverence. Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
“In societies where babies are nurtured, not left to cry, and are breastfed whenever they ask, not only are those babies more content and… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
In fact, during the postpartum period, many mothers don't feel attached towards her new born. So during such times they are quite sensitive and… — Angad Bedi Copy Share Image
I grew up with babies, so babies have never been particularly intimidating to me. — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
it is a testament to the strength and purity of the democratic sentiment in the country, that the republic has not been overthrown by… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
School is no place of education for any children whatever till their minds are well put in action. This is the work which has… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for fame, or… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
it is the worst humiliation and grievance of the suffering, that they cause suffering. — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
I wrote because I could not help it. There was something that I wanted to say, and I said it: that was all. The… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
The instruction furnished is not good enough for the youth of such a country ... There is not even any systematic instruction given on… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
[I] wish that the land-tax went a little more according to situation than it does. 'Tis really ridiculous, how one has to pay five… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument. — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. It is the moral atmosphere in which human beings are to live and move. Men do not… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead. — Lucretius Copy Share Image
As a designer, everything is always about aesthetics mixed in with functionality and having that visual appeal. But you learn fast as a new… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
Soothing touch, whether it be applied to a ruffled cat, a crying infant, or a frightened child, has a universally recognized power to ameliorate… — Deane Juhan Copy Share Image
It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to baptism; and it is through this one Spirit that the infant so presented is reborn. For it is not written, 'Unless a man be born again by the will of his parents' or 'by the faith… — Saint Augustine Copy Share
I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related. — Kimberly Williams-Paisley Copy Share Image
My grandmother had six kids - one died as an infant - and she was dirt-poor, and all her kids got an education. And… — Lucy Alibar Copy Share Image
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands.… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I bought tiny infant onesies while still in college and compiled a killer toy collection throughout my 20s and 30s. — Kara Swisher Copy Share Image
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… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Again I ask whence it happened that the fall of Adam involved, without remedy, in eternal death so many nations, together with their infant… — John Calvin Copy Share Image