Infant Quotes

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned. (Denis Diderot)
What precious drops are those Which silently each other's track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their infant dew. View quote
John Dryden
We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. View quote
Francis Bacon
Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire. View quote
William Blake
No slave system has ever been able to continue to function on the slaves provided by its own biological reproduction because the rate of human reproduction is too slow and the expense from infant mortality and years of unproductive upkeep of the young make this prohibitively expensive. This relationship is one of the basic causes of the American Civil War, and was even more significant in destroying ancient Rome. View quote
Carroll Quigley
The square is not a subconscious form. It is the creation of intuitive reason. The face of the new art. The square is a living, regal infant. The first step of pure creation in art. View quote
Kazimir Malevich
I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
Freud says, "Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then proving himself a weakling.” Masculinity must fight off effeminacy day by day. Woman and nature stand ever ready to reduce the male to boy and infant. View quote
Camille Paglia
Geology has shared the fate of other infant sciences, in being for a while considered hostile to revealed religion; so like them, when fully understood, it will be found a potent and consistent auxiliary to it, exalting our conviction of the Power, and Wisdom, and Goodness of the Creator. View quote
William Buckland
As South Korea shows, active participation in international trade does not require free trade. Indeed, had South Korea pursued free trade and not promoted infant industries, it would not have become a major trading nation. It would still be exporting raw materials (e.g., tungsten ore, fish, seaweed) or low-technology, low-price products (e.g., textiles, garments, wigs made with human hair) that used to be its main export items in the 1960s. (Ha-Joon Chang)
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 of the infant that which is utterly unknown in the natures of the parents. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
Reports to the Surgeon General... represent the final word upon the efficient and devoted sense of responsibility of our people in this obligation to our fellow citizens. Overwhelmingly they confirm the fact that the general mortality rate, infant mortality rate, epidemics, the disease rate-are less than in normal times. There is but one explanation. That is, that through an aroused sense of public responsibility, those in destitution and their children are receiving actually more adequate care than even in normal times. View quote
Herbert Hoover
The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime. View quote
Lydia Sigourney
Without communities, no infant will be sufficiently socialized... and that occurs in the first four or five years of life. ...The first two years are important. ...of vital importance. He has to be loved, above all he has to be talked to. View quote
Carroll Quigley
And only the very courageous will be able to keep alive the spirit of individualism and dissent which gave birth to this nation, nourished it as an infant, and carried it through its severest tests upon the attainment of its maturity. View quote
John F. Kennedy
It's similar to the way you feel cuddling an infant or a kitten, when you want to squeeze it so hard you'd kill it... View quote
Zoë Heller
Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us. View quote
Frederick Leboyer
The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related. View quote
Kimberly Williams-Paisley
I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version. View quote
Lionel Blue
The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years. (Mary Kay Blakely)
I'm an infant with Shakespeare; I'm kind of learning how to walk. I am trying to decipher the code, you know? I do my research. And I get a clear understanding of what the language is. It is a tremendous process I have to go through as I am sure all actors do, finding the gems hidden in his language. View quote
Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor. View quote
Samuel Horsley
Infant prodigies do not necessarily become great musicians. I have had over three thousand pupils, and I am convinced that the proficiency which some display is no more than a manifestation of dexterity and an extraordinary natural imitative faculty of children. View quote
Alfred Cortot
The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state. View quote
Thomas Jefferson