Century Quote by Louise J. Kaplan

“Babies who are unloved fail to thrive, even when given food and medical care. Some don’t even metabolize food given to them intravenously; they…

— Steven Stosny

“Food is intrinsically linked with nurturing and love: we all want to show our babies how much we love them and feeding them is…

— Gill Rapley

“It was ‘discovered’ in the 1940s that babies in orphanages who received all their supposed nutritional requirements, did not grow because they were not…

— Gabrielle Palmer

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

“A Chicago study of 20,000 infants, all from poor families, all under the supervision of local welfare clinics, revealed that at nine months of…

— Gabrielle Palmer

“When you live in an artificial feeding culture, you miss the unconscious, lifelong lessons of how to hold your baby.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

Historians once assumed that when childhood mortality was high, people must not have loved their children very much; it would have been too painful.…

— Jill Lepore

“When a long-desired baby is born, what joy! More happiness than we find in sex, more than we take in success, revenge, or wealth.…

— Donald Hall

“Observation of animals revealed the fact that infants were rejected if the mother could not nuzzle them within a certain time.”

— Gabrielle Palmer

Many times, a child's struggle against hunger begins before he or she is born because the mother is undernourished. Making sure prenatal care and…

— Hector Elizondo

“It is true that almost everyone in the foothills farmed and hunted, so there were no breadlines, no men holding signs that begged for…

— Rick Bragg

Why do babies starve /When there's enough food to feed the world /Why when there's so many of us /Are there people still alone

— Tracy Chapman