Infant Quotes - Page 3

• I think that few people are aware how early it is right to respect the modesty of an infant.

  Harriet Martineau

  Thinking, People, Modesty

  Harriet Martineau (1849). “Household Education”, p.294

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• There's a huge piece of humanity that's missing - a huge piece - and our [American] culture is infant, comparatively speaking, to these folks who have been around for thousands of years.

  Lisa Ling

  Years, Missing, Humanity

  "Interview: Sonia Kennebeck, Ines Hofmann Kanna, & Lisa Ling on Giving Wings to 'National Bird'". Interview with Stephen Saito, moveablefest.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.

  Andy Rooney

  Atheist, Belief, Born

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• I'm sorry, but were you dropped on your head as an infant?

  Kathryn Stockett

  Sorry, I'm Sorry

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.131, Penguin

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• When a baby is in the room with two women, and one is considered more beautiful than the other, the infant's eyes will go to the more beautiful one.

  Susan Anton

  Beautiful, Girl, Baby

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• I love fear, and fear breeds creativity. It forces you to react instinctively, which is the essence of movement. Movement is a creativity - a sense of an emotional movement. And the more instinctual you can make that, the more pleasurable it is. It's like an infant drawing. You're completely uninhibited because creativity is a wonderful expression. Good or bad, who cares? That's part of the past. The act of creativity is what's interesting.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Creativity, Past, Emotional

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I was just an infant when [Fannie Lou] Hamer spoke - barley even awake in the world. But here she was, pressing the Democratic Party to refuse to recognize the all-white Mississippi delegation, because obviously there was no way Mississippi could have an all-white delegation. Black people had been kept from registering through violence and intimidation. She had experienced that violence herself and was there to speak about it and to insist the delegation of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party be recognized instead.

  Leah D. Daughtry

  Party, White, People

  Source: www.elle.com

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• America has about three times as many abortions as they have in Norway, or Sweden, or Nordic countries, and they don't have any laws at all about abortion, but they care for women and infant children, which is a major cause for abortion.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Children, America

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• The more innocuous the name of a weapon, the more hideous its impact. Some of the most horrific weapons of the Vietnam era were named Bambi, Infant, Daisycutter, Grasshopper, and Agent Orange. Nor is the trend new: From the past we have Mustard Gas, Angel Chasers [two can-nonballs linked with a chain for added destruction], and the Peacemaker, to name a few.)

  Paul Dickson

  Angel, Past, Impact

  "The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects".

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• You see how many are the benefits of baptism, and some think its heavenly grace consists only in the remission of sins, but we have enumerated ten honors [it bestows]! For this reason we baptize even infants, though they are not defiled by [personal] sins, so that there may be given to them holiness, righteousness, adoption, inheritance, brotherhood with Christ, and that they may be his [Christ's] members

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Thinking, Adoption, Grace

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• Short of preventing harm to the child, the standard of 'best interest of the child' is insufficient to serve as a compelling state interest overruling a parent's fundamental rights.... To suggest otherwise would be the logical equivalent to asserting that the state has the authority to break up stable families and redistribute its infant population to provide each child with the 'best family.' It is not within the province of the state to make significant decisions concerning the custody of children merely because it could make a 'better' decision.

  Barbara Madsen

  Children, Rights, Adoption

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• To make love is to become like this infant again. We grope with our mouths toward the body of another being, whom we trust, who takes us in her arms. We rock together with this loved one. We move beyond speech. Our bodies move past all the controls we have learned. We cry out in ecstasy, in feeling. We are back in a natural world before culture tried to erase our experience of nature. In this world, to touch another is to express love; there is no idea apart from feeling, and no feeling which does not ring through our bodies and our souls at once.

  Susan Griffin

  Sex, Moving, Past

  Susan Griffin (1981). “Pornography and Silence: Culture's Revolt Against Nature”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• 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.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Girl, Men, Facts

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “Lavinia”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For this my mother wrapped me warm,
  And called me home against the storm,
  And coaxed my infant nights to quiet,
  And gave me roughage in my diet,
  And tucked me in my bed at eight,
  And clipped my hair, and marked my weight,
  And watched me as I sat and stood:
  That I might grow to womanhood
  To hear a whistle and drop my wits
  And break my heart to clattering bits.

  Dorothy Parker

  Broken Heart, Mother, Home

  Dorothy Parker (1992). “The Sayings of Dorothy Parker”, Duckbacks

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• GLOUCESTER: I do not know that Englishman alive With whom my soul is any jot at odds, More than the infant that is born to-night: I thank my God for my humility.

  William Shakespeare

  Humility, Night, Odds

  William Shakespeare (2004). “King Richard III (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.36, Sparklesoup LLC

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• O cruel cloudless space,
  And pale bare ground where the poor infant lies!
  Why do we feel restored
  As in a sacramental place?
  Here Mystery is artifice,
  And here a vision of such peace is stored,
  Healing flows from it through our eyes.

  May Sarton

  Lying, Healing, Eye

  May Sarton (2014). “In Time Like Air: Poems”, p.55, Open Road Media

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• We see the water of a river flowing uninterruptedly and passing away, and all that floats on its surface, rubbish or beams of trees, all pass by. Christian! So does our life. . .I was an infant, and that time has gone. I was an adolescent, and that too has passed. I was a young man, and that too is far behind me. The strong and mature man that I was is no more. My hair turns white, I succumb to age, but that too passes; I approach the end and will go the way of all flesh. I was born in order to die. I die that I may live. Remember me, O Lord, in Thy Kingdom!

  Tikhon of Zadonsk

  Christian, Spiritual, Strong

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• Even when adults do feel their safety to be threatened, we may not be able to see this on the surface. Infants will react in a fashion as if they were endangered, if they are disturbed or dropped suddenly, startled by loud noises, flashing light

  Abraham Maslow

  Fashion, Light, Safety

  Abraham Maslow “A Theory of Human Motivation”, Lulu.com

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• I had an indefatigable curiosity about everything. But why should my fate have depended upon that? Why does the curiosity of a child born into the lowest classes have to overcome everything put in his or her way to mute that curiosity, when a child born to parents with access to the advantages of life will have his meager curiosity kindled and nurtured? The unfairness is horrifying when it is properly understood as an unfairness meted out on children, on infants, on babies.

  Zia Haider Rahman

  Baby, Children, Fate

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Brightest and best of the sons of the morning,
  Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid.
  Star of the east the horizon adorning,
  Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.

  Reginald Heber

  Morning, Stars, Son

  Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Reginald Heber, Robert Pollok (1831). “The poetical works of Hemans, Heber and Pollok”, p.17

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• We live in a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants, in a world that has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. We have solved the mystery of the atom and forgotten the lessons of the Sermon on the Mount. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about dying than we know about living.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Peace, War, Words Of Wisdom

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• It is as great a crime to leave a woman alone in her agony and deny her relief from her suffering as it is to insist upon dulling the consciousness of a natural mother who desires above all things to be aware of the final reward of her efforts, whose ambition is to be present, in full possession of her senses, when the infant she already adores greets her with its first loud cry and the soft touch of its restless body upon her limbs.

  Grantly Dick-Read

  Mother, Ambition, Agony

  Grantly Dick-Read (2006). “Childbirth Without Fear”, p.274, Pollinger in Print

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• Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold?

  Thomas Traherne

  Book, Childhood, World

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.152, Cosimo, Inc.

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• What shall I say! And how shall I describe this Birth to you? For this wonder fills me with astonishment. The Ancient of Days has become an infant. He Who sits upon the sublime and heavenly Throne, now lies in a manger. And He Who cannot be touched, Who is simple, without complexity, and incorporeal, now lies subject to the hands of men. He Who has broken the bonds of sinners, is now bound by an infant's bands. But He has decreed that ignominy shall become honor, infamy be clothed with glory, and total humiliation the measure of His Goodness.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Lying, Simple, Men

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• The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece.

  James Theodore Bent

  Strong, Belief, Newborn

  James Theodore Bent, Al. N. Oikonomidēs (1965). “Aegean Islands; the Cyclades, Or; Life Among the Insular Greeks”, Chicago, Argonaut

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