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The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear. -- Robert Anton Wilson
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When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists. -- Stephen Fry
One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream. -- Don Marquis
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. -- Francis Bacon
The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality. -- Felicity Huffman
An empty book is like an Infant's soul, in which anything may be written, -- Thomas Traherne
The New Year, like an Infant Heir to the whole world, was waited for, with welcomes, presents, and rejoicings. -- Charles Dickens
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
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
Inspire the Vocal Brass, Inspire; The World is past its Infant Age: Arms and Honour, Arms and Honour, Set the Martial Mind on Fire, And kindle Manly Rage. -- John Dryden
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
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
Quality speaks by itself. Rightly communicated it creates Joy. Like an Infant needs no words to express to her mother. Any success of communication enhances beauty of both, which too needs no words to endorse. -- Priyavrat Thareja
An angel, legend has it, took pity on a little shepherd girl who had nothing to give to the Infant Jesus in his manger. The angel handed her a weed, but first transformed it into this beautiful flower of winter. -- Allen Lacy
There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant damnation is gone, but the text remains. More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the texts that authorized them remain. -- Mark Twain
I can sleep anywhere. I'm like an infant. -- Lauren Conrad
Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. -- C. S. Lewis
Birth is a shipwreck, the mewling infant shored on unknown land. -- Jeanette Winterson
Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires. -- William Blake
The level of communication you can achieve with an infant is really profound. -- Mayim Bialik
Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant. -- Leigh Hunt
The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants. -- Johnny Depp
The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related. -- Kimberly Williams-Paisley
One thing I had learned from watching chimpanzees with their infants is that having a child should be fun. -- Jane Goodall
Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles. -- William Blake
If infants are ready to do something, they will do it. In fact, when they are ready, they have to do it. -- Magda Gerber
Having an infant is difficult. It's a lot of work, and I didn't hire any help because I overestimated my own abilities. -- Megan Fox
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned. -- Denis Diderot
One cannot watch chimpanzee infants for long without realizing that they have the same emotional need for affection and reassurance as human children. -- Jane Goodall
Believe nothing a man tells you and everything he shows you"....(Taken from a farewell video from a dying father to his infant daughter on dating) -- Randy Pausch
Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God. No one is excepted, not [even] the infant. -- Ambrose
We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven. -- Tryon Edwards
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
Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer. -- Jack Henry Abbott
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base. -- Dave Barry
I believe the only way we'll be able to solve infant mortality - and other huge social problems - is by designing solutions for those with the greatest intent to carry it out. -- Jane Chen
We not only respect babies, we demonstrate our respect every time we interact with them. Respecting a child means treating even the youngest infant as a unique human being, not as an object -- Magda Gerber
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. -- Frederick Leboyer
There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint such a picture, the canvas would show only a woman looking down at her empty arms. -- Charlotte Bronte
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. -- Leo Buscaglia
Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation. -- Alcee Hastings
Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used our wits to adapt to and flourish in habitats as varied as deserts, Arctic tundra, tropical rainforests, wetlands and high mountain ranges. -- David Suzuki
Because sanitation has so many effects across all aspects of development - it affects education, it affects health, it affects maternal mortality and infant mortality, it affects labor - it's all these things, so it becomes a political football. Nobody has full responsibility. -- Rose George
We all are originally sinners as Adam and in Adam, his leprosy cleaving faster to us than Naaman's did to Gahazai, so that even the infant, before it has seen the light of the world, has this blemish inherent in its unborn members. -- John Wycliffe
Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream' is an intentionally angry film. How could it not be when the chance of an infant dying is five times greater on the Bronx Park Avenue than on Manhattan's Park Avenue just across the Harlem River? -- Alex Gibney
You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn't have connectives like 'and' that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English. -- Noam Chomsky
In fact, corporations are the infants of our society - they know very little except how to grow (though they're very good at that), and they howl when you set limits. Socializing them is the work of politics. It's about time we took it up again. -- Bill McKibben
The Moon is a ball of left-over debris from a cosmic collision that took place more than four billion years ago. A Mars-sized asteroid - one of the countless planetesimals that were frantically churning our solar system into existence - hit the infant Earth, bequeathing it a very large natural satellite. -- Seth Shostak
Christ commands those who believe to be baptized. Pedobaptists adopt a system which tends to preclude the baptism of believers. They baptize the involuntary infant and deprive him of the privilege of ever professing his faith in the appointed way. If this system were universally adopted, it would banish believers' baptism out of the world. -- Adoniram Judson
When I did get married and then had children, it was Beatles' songs I sang to them at night. As one of the youngest of 24 cousins, I had never held an infant or baby-sat. I didn't know any lullabies, so I sang Sam and Grace to sleep with 'I Will' and 'P.S. I Love You.' -- Ann Hood
I have spent my adult life trying to figure out why parents and society put themselves into a race -- what's the hurry? I keep trying to convey the pleasure every parent and teacher could feel while observing, appreciating and enjoying what the infant is doing. This attitude would change our educational climate from worry to joy. -- Magda Gerber
Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man can think of the Queen of the angels, during the time that she suffered so much with the Infant Jesus, without giving thanks to St. Joseph for the services he rendered them then. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
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. -- Ruben Santiago-Hudson
My grandmother had six kids - one died as an infant - and she was dirt-poor, and all her kids got an education. And my mom grew up poor. And they both worked so hard and cultivated so much of their own happiness. I wanted to have that like an amulet. Not like armor, but like a magic feather. Like Dumbo's magic feather. -- Lucy Alibar
I wish I'd been a mixed infant. -- Brendan Behan
The infant is ten and he stays, -- William Goldman
Adoration is a sign of an infant civilization. -- Toba Beta
You abilities are too infant-like for doing much alone. -- William Shakespeare
No animal is so inexhaustible as an excited infant. -- Amy Leslie
I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version. -- Lionel Blue
Giving birth to a baby does not make you an infant. -- Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Pity the poor infant. Born perfect into the world from imperfect parents. -- Cynthia Heimel
I'm sorry, but were you dropped on your head as an infant? -- Kathryn Stockett
He who possess virtue in abundance may be compared to an infant. -- Laozi
Those who 'cursed the day they were born' must have been infant prodigies. -- Ethel Mumford
The euro is a sickly premature infant, the result of an over-hasty monetary union. -- Gerhard Schroder
The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead. -- Lucretius
A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant! -- Philip Roth
He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy. -- Robert Moses
What is wrong with me i just bought a bag of weed from an infant. -- Dave Chappelle
Deep in the cavern of the infant's breast; the father's nature lurks, and lives anew. -- Horace
Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze. -- William Cowper
The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality. -- Tammy Baldwin
Embrace's infant warmers are a novel solution. The product has been designed specifically for resource-constrained settings. -- Jane Chen
Sarah Palin is Latina. Pay-leen. She has an infant and a grandkid the same age. Latina! -- George Lopez
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We all have an infant inside of us, but the infant doesn't have to run the show. -- Murray Bowen
When you hold an infant, hold him not just with your body, but with your mind and heart. -- Magda Gerber
But she named the infant "Pearl," as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother's only treasure! -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it -- Margaret Sanger
There is not a man in America who has not had a secret ambition to boot an infant. -- W. C. Fields
Hitler admired Stalin, quite properly seeing himself as a mere infant in crime compared to his great exemplar. -- Doris Lessing
It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense,/ That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human. -- Arthur Rimbaud
Only after realising that routine immunisations were dangerous did I achieve a substantial drop in infant death rates. -- Archie Kalokerinos
The most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it. -- Margaret Sanger
A newborn has more skills than does a politician. The infant babbles, burbles, cuddles, coos; the politician just babbles. -- Derek Cooper
All babies are incoherent, but they grow up. That is the principle difference between an infant and a poet. -- Sharyn McCrumb
I think that few people are aware how early it is right to respect the modesty of an infant. -- Harriet Martineau
Killing a defective infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Sometimes it is not wrong at all. -- Peter Singer
The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime. -- Lydia Sigourney
To live without history is to live like an infant, constantly amazed and challenged by a strange and unnamed world. -- Joan Nestle
Ere the dolphin dies Its hues are brightest. Like an infant's breath Are tropic winds before the voice of death. -- Fitz-Greene Halleck
It is characteristic of the emotions of the very young infant that they are of an extreme and powerful nature. -- Melanie Klein
I bought tiny infant onesies while still in college and compiled a killer toy collection throughout my 20s and 30s. -- Kara Swisher
Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor. -- Samuel Horsley
T is the work of many a dark hour, many a prayer, to bring the heart back from an infant gone. -- Nathaniel Parker Willis
Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy. -- Jonathan Swift
The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity. -- Thomas Carlyle
The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth. -- Aristotle
In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged. -- Indira Gandhi
I tend to [have] a lot of ideas but then just leave them in that infant form and kind of move on. -- James Mercer
Circumcision in the United States is routinely performed without anesthesia, though anesthesia reduces the infant's stress and prevents infection and blood clots. -- Warren Farrell
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
The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state. -- Thomas Jefferson
But what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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
We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy. -- Paul Hoffman
It is terrible when an infant dies, but worse, most people think, when a three-year-old child dies, and worse still when an adolescent does. -- Ezekiel Emanuel
Prayer is the lisping of the believing infant, the shout of the fighting believer, the requiem of the dying saint falling asleep in Jesus. -- Charles Spurgeon
Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest-- But middle age by no fond wile, No soothing calm is blest. -- John Keble
Sustenance for the infant and child is more than alimentary nourishment. The child needs love, security, narcissistic supplies -- however one may describe it. -- Alexander Lowen
Child murderers practice their profession without let or hindrance, and open infant butcheries unquestioned...Is there no remedy for all this ante-natal child murder? -- Caroline Norton
Women have millions of years of genetically-enc oded intelligences, intuitions, capacities, knowledges, powers, and cellular knowings of exactly what to do with the infant. -- Joseph Chilton Pearce
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... -- Zoë Heller
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... -- Zoë Heller
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
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant. -- Edmund Burke
I remember staring at my son endlessly when he was an infant, stunned by his very existence, wondering where on earth he had come from. -- Anne Lamott

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