Infant Quotes - Page 15

• 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

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• 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

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• Ere the dolphin dies
  Its hues are brightest. Like an infant's breath
  Are tropic winds before the voice of death.

  Fitz-Greene Halleck

  Death, Wind, Voice

  Fitz-Greene Halleck (1821). “Fanny”, p.59

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• However constant the visitations of sickness and bereavement, the fall of the year is most thickly strewn with the fall of human life. Everywhere the spirit of some sad power seems to direct the time; it hides from us the blue heavens, it makes the green wave turbid; it walks through the fields, and lays the damp ungathered harvest low; it cries out in the night wind and the shrill hail; it steals the summer bloom from the infant cheek; it makes old age shiver to the heart; it goes to the churchyard, and chooses many a grave.

  James Martineau

  Summer, Fall, Heart

  James Martineau (1858). “Endeavors after the Christian life: discourses”, p.227

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• 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”

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• The smiles of infants are said to be the first fruits of human reason.

  Henry Norman Hudson

  Fruit, Firsts, Reason

  Henry Norman Hudson (1848). “Lectures on Shakespeare”, p.220

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• I took little interest in fleshly infants; it being my private opinion that their attractions did not justify the fuss that was made about them. I had, for instance, early discovered that, if you gave a baby a finger to hold, it held it. This was perhaps interesting, but it wanted greatly in the dear element of surprise.

  Dorothy Cottrell

  Baby, Interesting, Elements

  Dorothy Cottrell (1929). “The Singing Gold”

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• The Devil, too, sometimes steals human children; it is not infrequent for him to carry away infants within the first six weeks after birth, and to substitute in their place imps.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Children, Humor

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• The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.

  Lucretius

  Newborn, Wailing

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• I was an infant when my mother went To see an atheist burned. She took me there. The dark-robed priests were met around the pile; The multitude was gazing silently; And as the culprit passed with dauntless mien, Tempered disdain in his unaltering eye, Mixed with a quiet smile, shone calmly forth; The thirsty fire crept round his manly limbs; His resolute eyes were scorched to blindness soon; His death-pang rent my heart! the insensate mob Uttered a cry of triumph, and I wept. Weep not, child! cried my mother, for that man Has said, 'There is no God.'

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Mother, Atheist, Children

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2004). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.429, JHU Press

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• Presbyterianism without infant damnation would be like the dog on the train that couldn't be identified because it had lost its tag.

  Mark Twain

  Dog, Atheism, Damnation

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.371, Courier Corporation

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• It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the best they can.

  Mark Twain

  Giving Up, Taken, Long

  Mark Twain (2015). “Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays”, p.225, 谷月社

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• I had always been scrupulously careful to avoid the smallest suggestion of infant indoctrination, which I think is ultimately responsible for much of the evil in the world. Others, less close to her, showed no such scruples, which upset me, as I very much wanted her, as I want all children, to make up her own mind freely when she became old enough to do so. I would encourage her to think, without telling her what to think.

  Richard Dawkins

  Children, Thinking, Evil

  Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain”, p.241, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Whatever each individual woman is facing; only she knows her biggest challenge. However, if we add up the problems that affect the biggest numbers of women, then issues having to do with physical safety and reproduction are still the biggest. Female bodies are still the battleground, whether that means restricting freedom, birth control and safe abortion in order to turn them into factories, or abandoning female infants because females are less valuable for everything other than reproduction.

  Gloria Steinem

  Mean, Order, Numbers

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• In every cry of every man,
  In every infant's cry of fear,
  In every voice, in every ban,
  The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.

  William Blake

  Men, Voice, Mind

  William Blake, Andrew Lincoln (1991). “Songs of Innocence and of Experience”, p.193, Princeton University Press

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• But most thro' midnight streets I hear
  How the youthful Harlots curse
  Blasts the new-born Infants tear
  And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse

  William Blake

  Children, Abuse, Tears

  William Blake (1971). “Songs of Innocence and Experience”, p.27, Library of Alexandria

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• Your God loves your people and hates mine; he folds his strong arms lovingly around the white man and leads him as a father leads his infant son, but he has forsaken his red children; he makes your people wax strong every day, and soon they will fill the land; while my people are ebbing away like a fast-receding tide, that will never flow again. The white man's God cannot love his red children or he would protect them. They seem to be orphans who can look nowhere for help.

  Chief Seattle

  Strong, Children, Father

  Albert Furtwangler, Chief Seattle (1997). “Answering Chief Seattle”, p.62, University of Washington Press

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• Pedialyte's a super-Gatorade that they give infants when they're dehydrated. It's on all our riders now. Drink a liter of grape Pedialyte and no hangover. The guys from Pantera taught us that trick.

  Sully Erna

  Hangover, Taught Us, Giving

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• Wherever the State touches the personal life of the infant, the child, the youth, or the aged, helpless, defective in mind, body or moral nature, there the State enters "woman's peculiar sphere," her sphere of motherly succor and training, her sphere of sympathetic and self-sacrificing ministration to individual lives.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Children, Sacrifice, Motherhood

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• That food nourishes, sleep refreshes, and fire warms us; that to sow in the seed-time is the way to reap in the harvest, and, in general, that to obtain such or such ends, such or such means are conducive, all this we know, not by discovering any necessary connexion between our ideas, but only by the observation of the settled laws of nature, without which we should be all in uncertainty and confusion, and a grown man no more know how to manage himself in the affairs of life than an infant just born.

  George Berkeley

  Mean, Sleep, Men

  George Berkeley (2013). “Principles of Human Knowledge”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• A ward, and still in bonds, one day
  I stole abroad;
  It was high spring, and all the way
  Primrosed and hung with shade;
  Yet was it frost within,
  And surly winds
  Blasted my infant buds, and sin
  Like clouds eclipsed my mind.

  Henry Vaughan

  Spring, Clouds, Wind

  Henry Vaughan (1976). “The complete poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• Walking on the moon is now something that people used to do, in the distant past, like macramé, decoupage and the Hustle.... There will just be the pictures, then, as we saw them in the summer of '69, ghostly and blurry, colorless and incomprehensible, an infant's glimpse of a new world.

  Robert Lloyd

  Summer, Past, Moon

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• The good enough mother, owing to her deep empathy with her infant, reflects in her face his feelings; this is why he sees himselfin her face as if in a mirror and finds himself as he sees himself in her. The not good enough mother fails to reflect the infant's feelings in her face because she is too preoccupied with her own concerns, such as her worries over whether she is doing right by her child, her anxiety that she might fail him.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Mother, Children, Mirrors

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• Not until Freud's writings became popular did descriptions of infants center on relationships with their mothers. The idea that children have feelings of any lasting importance for their development is a very recent invention (or insight if you wish).

  Sandra Scarr

  Mother, Children, Writing

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• The colicky baby who becomes calm, the quiet infant who throws temper tantrums at two, the wild child at four who becomes seriousand studious at six all seem to surprise their parents. It is difficult to let go of one's image of a child, say goodbye to the child a parent knows, and get accustomed to this slightly new child inhabiting the known child's body.

  Ellen Galinsky

  Letting Go, Goodbye, Baby

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