Infant Quotes

Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.

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.

Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire.

The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.

One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

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.

I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version.

The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.

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

When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.

An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.

I wish I'd been a mixed infant.

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.

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.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

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.

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.

The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.

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.