Infancy Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “The little suckings and smackings of the perversions are the sounds of joyous infancy.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Infancy Joyous Littles Perversion Sound
“We do our sulking lovers the greatest possible favor when we are able to regard their tantrums as we would those of an infant.… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“In terms of their power over other adults, the sheer force of their monomaniacal self-interest and their utter lack of shame, they may be… — Stanley Bing Copy Share Image
Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish. — Anonymous 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
It is characteristic of the emotions of the very young infant that they are of an extreme and powerful nature. — Melanie Klein Copy Share Image
Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Children are overbearing, supercilious, passionate, envious, inquisitive, egotistical, idle, fickle, timid, intemperate, liars, and dissemblers; they laugh and weep easily, are excessive in their… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
See Social-life and Glee sit down, All joyous and unthinking, Till, quite transmugrified, they're grown Debauchery and Drinking — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Babies are born with neither good nor bad character. Normal people - as they grow, learn and are trained - develop better or worse… — Edwin J Delattre Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since it is… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The focus in the Western pictorial tradition is on the body of Christ, the bit you can paint, the Nativity and the infancy, but… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves the elements of their… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
I acknowledge Thee, Lord of heaven and earth, and praise Thee for my first rudiments of being, and my infancy, whereof I remember nothing;… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
A person's life from infancy to old age is nothing else than an advance from the world towards heaven, the last stage of which… — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
In the infancy of civilization, when our island was as savage as New Guinea, when letters and arts were still unknown to Athens, when… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
