Infant Quotes - Page 12

• Infant baptism when practiced can be no more than an expression of the faith and hope of the parents that their child will ultimately be saved.

  Lewis Sperry Chafer

  Children, Expression, Parent

  13 Copy quote

• Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theater and learn to become 'stage-worthy.' We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything. This is as true for the infant moving from kicking and crawling to walking as it is for the scientist with his equations. If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn; and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him everything it has to teach. 'Talent' or 'lack of talent' have little to do with it.

  Viola Spolin

  Moving, Play, Wish

  Viola Spolin (1999). “Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques”, p.50, Northwestern University Press

  89 Copy quote

  Show source

• Silent night, holy night. All is calm, all is bright. Round yon Virgin Mother and Child. Holy Infant so tender and mild. Sleep in heavenly peace. Sleep in heavenly peace.

  Joseph Mohr

  Christmas, Mother, Children

  86 Copy quote

• When the death of a disabled infant will lead to the birth of another infant with better prospects of a happy life, the total amount of happiness will be greater if the disabled infant is killed. The loss of happy life for the first infant is outweighed by the gain of happier life for the second. Therefore, if killing the hemophiliac infant has no adverse effect on others, it would, according to the total view, be right to kill him.

  Peter Singer

  Loss, Happy Life, Adverse Effects

  Peter Singer (2011). “Practical Ethics”, p.163, Cambridge University Press

  46 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Camille Paglia

  Taken, Fighting, Boys

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, Vintage

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• I would not send my child to a vacation Bible school in 99.9% of the Baptist churches in America. Have some teacher that doesn't even understand anything about the gospel of Jesus Christ, ask those little children, 'How many of you want to go to Heaven?' and damn most of them! Harden their heart to the gospel with some silly profession of faith because it was a silly proclamation of the gospel! It brought no genuine repentance, it brought no faith; it's no different than the Roman church that baptizes every infant that is born.

  Paul Washer

  Teacher, Jesus, Children

  40 Copy quote

• Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing, so the first act of men and women when they are born again is praying.

  J. C. Ryle

  Men, Breathing, World

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “A Call to Prayer”, p.6, Editora Dracaena

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the course of four hours, I watched my brain completely deteriorate in its ability to process all information. On the morning of the hemorrhage, I could not walk, talk, read, write or recall any of my life. I essentially became an infant in a woman's body.

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Morning, Writing, Brain

  "My stroke of insight". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2008.

  35 Copy quote

  Show source

• FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institution, a woman's kitchen. The frying-pan was invented by Calvin, and by him used in cooking span-long infants that had died without baptism; and observing one day the horrible torment of a tramp who had incautiously pulled a fried babe from the waste-dump and devoured it, it occurred to the great divine to rob death of its terrors by introducing the frying-pan into every household in Geneva. Thence it spread to all corners of the world, and has been of invaluable assistance in the propagation of his sombre faith.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Long, Baptism, Cooking

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.91, University of Georgia Press

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.

  Avicenna

  Essence, Transcendentalism, Form

  105 Copy quote

• ...there is a fine line between wishing to produce child-like astonishment and treating people like infants.

  Derren Brown

  Children, People, Magic

  29 Copy quote

• I verily believe that I never took infant in my arms that did not the moment it was there by its cries beg to be removed.

  Dorothy Wordsworth

  Believe, Arms, Cry

  Dorothy Wordsworth, Alan G. Hill (1981). “Letters of Dorothy Wordsworth: A Selection”, Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; Toronto : Oxford University Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life. Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

  Augustus William Hare

  Mother, Baby, Tired

  7 Copy quote

• Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem.

  Margaret Halsey

  Envy, Adults, Degrees

  Margaret Halsey (1944). “...Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The most important educational need of the child is to feel himself worthy of love and a worthy dispenser of love. If infants learn what love is, they can go through life with sanity and happiness.

  Herbert Ratner

  Children, Educational, Love Is

  4 Copy quote

• If your little savage were left to himself and be allowed to retain all his ignorance, he would in time join the infant's reasoning to the grown man's passion, he would strangle his father and sleep with his mother.

  Denis Diderot

  Mother, Father, Passion

  "Rameau's Nephew". Book by Denis Diderot, 1805.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I can't convince myself that it does much good to try to challenge the everyday political delusions and dementias of Americans at large. Their contained and confined mentalities by far prefer the petty and parochial prisons of the kind of sense they have been trained and rewarded for making out of their lives (and are punished for deviating from them). What it costs them ultimately to be such slaves and infants and ideological zombies is a thought too monstrous and rending and spiky for them even to want to glance at.

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Political, Challenges

  4 Copy quote

• Only idiots and infants need things. The language of needs is the native tongue of socialists, therapists, and paternalists of all sorts and is addressed to needy dependents. The language of wants is spoken by self-respecting adults and is addressed to other self-respecting adults.

  Thomas Szasz

  Self, Tongue, Adults

  6 Copy quote

• Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all. The infant breaks his toy, bites his nurse's breast, strangles his canary long before he is able to reason; cruelty is stamped in animals, in whom, as I think I have said, Nature's laws are more emphatically to be read than in ourselves; cruelty exists amongst savages, so much nearer to Nature than civilized men are; absurd then to maintain cruelty is a consequence of depravity. . . . Cruelty is simply the energy in a man civilization has not yet altogether corrupted: therefore it is a virtue, not a vice.

  Marquis de Sade

  Men, Thinking, Animal

  29 Copy quote

• In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged.

  Indira Gandhi

  Anxiety, Alive, Firsts

  Indira Gandhi (1984). “Selected speeches and writings of Indira Gandhi, September 1972-October 30, 1984”

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Programs like WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) subsidize the exclusion of dads.

  Warren Farrell

  Children, Dad, Exclusion

  4 Copy quote

• Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all.

  Margaret Drabble

  Lord, Terror, Knows

  The Millstone (1965)

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Carroll Quigley

  War, Years, Rome

  Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• It seems to me obvious that infants and many animals that do not in any ordinary sense have a language or perform speech acts nonetheless have Intentional states. Only someone in the grip of a philosophical theory would deny that small babies can literally be said to want milk and that dogs want to be let out or believe that their master is at the door.

  John Searle

  Dog, Baby, Believe

  "Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind". Book by John Searle, 1983.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sacred Infant, all divine, What a tender love was Thine, Thus to come from highest bliss Down to such a world as this.

  Edward Caswall

  World, Sacred, Bliss

  Edward Caswall (1873). “Hymns and Poems, Original and Translated”, p.281

  4 Copy quote

  Show source