Infant Quotes - Page 2

• Life is a wheel. The more you give, the more you get back.

  Jerold Panas

  Baby, Giving, Wheels

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• Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.

  C. S. Lewis

  Grief, Grieving, Sky

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.8, Faber & Faber

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• The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

  Denis Diderot

  Running, Eye, Men

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Baby, Peace, Spring

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1839). “Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments”, p.272

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• The more you give, the more you live.

  Blake Mycoskie

  True Love, Baby, Abundance Of Love

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• Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Family, Good Night, Baby

  "Fictional character: Jennifer Jareau". "Criminal Minds" ("Boxed In", Season 10, Episode 5), October 29, 2014.

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• The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.

  Margaret Mead

  Cities, Childhood, Adults

  MARGARET MEAD (1930). “GROWING UP IN NEW GUINEA”

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• Babies learn most of what they know from interactions with their parents, but not of the formal, instructional variety. Babies learn from spontaneous, everyday events--the mailman at the door with a package to open...all of which need adult interpretation. They are real events of interest and concern to babies and young children....By contrast, infant education is artificial and out of context.

  Sandra Scarr

  Education, Baby, Children

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• I'm sure as an infant, no matter what I looked like, I felt like the most loved kid getting those massages. So I really think that was a big part of my growing and my brain developing. Most of all however, I think it was the love that was given to me unconditionally and I felt that my whole life. It certainly wasn't that my parents always liked what I was doing, even my becoming a doctor, my father preferred I went into business so he could help me, but I wanted to be a doctor.

  Bernie Siegel

  Father, Kids, Thinking

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• A cruel joke has been played on us. We are fated always to remember what we learned but never to recall the experiences that taught us. Who can remember being born? Yet, it is possible to speculate that anxiety has its roots in this experience, that dread of abandonment, fears of separation, intolerable loneliness go back to this moment. Who can remember being cared for as an infant? ... Who can remember being toilet-trained? ... Who can remember the attachment which developed to the parent of the opposite sex? ... We cannot remember but what we have forgotten lives on dynamically.

  Jo Coudert

  Sex, Loneliness, Roots

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• Being touched and caressed, being massaged, is food for the infant; food as necessary as minerals, vitamins, and proteins. Deprived of this food, the name of which is love, Babies would rather die. And often they do.

  Frederick Leboyer

  Baby, Names, Vitamins

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• One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun.

  Jane Goodall

  Children, Fun, Parenting

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• When you hold an infant, hold him not just with your body, but with your mind and heart.

  Magda Gerber

  Heart, Mind, Body

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• Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school, have more developed social skills, and display fewer behavior problems.

  Judy Biggert

  Children, School, Skills

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• How often a mother initiates a conversation with her child is not predictive of the language outcomes - what matters is, if the infant initiates, whether the mom responds.

  Po Bronson

  Mom, Mother, Children

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• It didn't take elaborate experiments to deduce that an infant would die from want of food. But it took centuries to figure out that infants can and do perish from want of love.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Children, Want, Century

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Lost Children: Separation and Loss Between Children and Parents”, Rivers Oram Press

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• An infant always learns. The less we interfere with the natural process of learning, the more we can observe how much infants learn all the time.

  Magda Gerber

  Natural, Process, Interfere

  Magda Gerber (1998). “Dear Parent: Caring for Infants with Respect”

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  The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

  Johnny Depp

  Love, Dog, Baby

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is a sight all hearts beguiling--
  A youthful mother to her infant smiling,
  Who with spread arms and dancing feet,
  A cooing voice, returns its answer sweet.

  Joanna Baillie

  Mother, Sweet, Heart

  Joanna Baillie (1832). “The Complete Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie”, p.539

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• As infants, our first victory comes in grasping some bit of the world, usually our mother's fingers. Later we discover that the world, and the things of the world, are grasping us, and have been all along.

  Stephen King

  Mother, Victory, World

  Stephen King (2008). “Just After Sunset: Stories”, p.220, Simon and Schuster

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• The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime.

  Lydia Sigourney

  Mother, Stars, Children

  Lydia Howard Sigourney (1838). “Letters to mothers”, p.206

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• Deep in the cavern of the infant's breast; the father's nature lurks, and lives anew.

  Horace

  Father, Parent, Caverns

  Horace (1901). “Q. Horatii Flacci Odæ, Epodæ, Carmen sæculare”

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• Parents sometimes think of newborns as helpless creatures, but in fact parents' behavior is much more under the infant's control than the reverse. Does he come running when you cry?

  Sandra Scarr

  Running, Thinking, Parent

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• Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin is in him Thou madest not. Who remindeth me of the sins of my infancy? for in Thy sight none is pure from sin, not even the infant whose life is but a day upon the earth.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Sight, Sins Not

  Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Saint Augustine of Hippo (2006). “The Confessions of Saint Augustine”, p.10, 1st World Publishing

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• The level of communication you can achieve with an infant is really profound.

  Mayim Bialik

  Communication, Profound, Levels

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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