Art Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

— Antonio Porchia

“Every infant born is testimony to the intricacy and breadth of possibilities inherent in humanity. Yet from birth* in most homes and social groups,…

— Adrienne Rich

Infants are interesting only to their parents.

— Marya Mannes

“Human infants," writes psychologist Martin Seligman, "begin life more helpless than infants of any other species. In the course of the next decade or…

— Les Parrott III

Babies are born whole and then they go through experiences in life that chip away at some of that, and it becomes learned behavior.

— Ari Graynor

The earliest instinct of the child, and the ripest experience of age, unite in affirming simplicity to be the truest and profoundest part for…

— Herman Melville

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

“Infants have their infancy; adults, adultery.”

— David P. Barash

Only as a child's awareness and reverence for the wholeness of life are developed can his humanity to his own kind reach its full…

— Rachel Carson

Every generation rediscovers and re-evaluates the meaning of infancy and childhood.

— Arnold Gesell

“Now these delightful infants are born haphazardly of any mating, any parents, treated well or ill as chance dictates, dying as easily as they…

— Doris Lessing