Infants Quotes

“Millions of deaths would not have happened if it weren’t for the consumption of alcohol. The same can be said about millions of births.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Imagine that the world had created a new 'dream product' to feed and immunize everyone born on earth. Imagine also that it was available everywhere, required no storage or delivery, and helped mothers plan their families and reduce the risk of cancer. Then imagine that the world refused to use it.”
― Frank Oski

“Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We are all born rude. No infant has ever appeared yet with the grace to understand how inconsiderate it is to disturb others in the middle of the night.”
― Judith Martin, Common Courtesy: In Which Miss Manners Solves the Problem That Baffled Mr. Jefferson

“Children and babies should be held in the most sacred regard. We feel that they're the most natural and true magicians.”
― Zeena Schreck

“With regard to things such as independence, mental capabilities, and sexuality, a very old man is nothing but a gigantic infant with white hair and wrinkles.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“All of us learned how to walk by failing.”
― J.R. Rim

“I have vicarious morning sickness. Other people's babies make me nauseous.”
― Jacob M. Appel, The Magic Laundry

“Don't just teach your kids, train them how to learn from everything.”
― Dido Stargaze

“What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text, in the face and behaviour of children, babes, and even brutes! That divided and rebel mind, that distrust of a sentiment because our arithmetic has computed the strength and means opposed to our purpose, these have not. Their mind being whole, their eye is as yet unconquered, and when we look in their faces, we are disconcerted. Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it. So God has armed youth and puberty and manhood no less with its own piquancy and charm, and made it enviable and gracious and its claims not to be put by, if it will stand by itself. Do not think the youth has no force, because he cannot speak to you and me.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

“The murder of a child by a parent is horrific and is usually complicated by serious mental illness, as in the Yates and Smith cases. But these cases also tend to create distortions and bias. Police and prosecutors have been influenced by the media coverage, and a presumption of guilt has now fallen on thousands of women—particularly poor women in difficult circumstances—whose children die unexpectedly. Despite America's preeminent status among developed nations, we have always struggled with high rates of infant mortality—much higher than in most developed countries. The inability of many poor women to get adequate health care, including prenatal and post-partum care, has been a serious problem in this country for decades. Even with recent improvements, infant mortality rates continue to be an embarrassment for a nation that spends more on health care than any other country in the world. The criminalization of infant mortality and the persecution of poor women whose children die have taken on new dimensions in twenty-first-century America, as prisons across the country began to bear witness.”
― Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy

“In every little boy child is hidden a great man; in every little girl child is hidden as great woman. God hides great things in little things and it takes the Holy Spirit of God get them unveil!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords

“Carpe Infans!
Beware Babies
There is no other human so seductive that an otherwise rational human will feed, clothe, sit up nights, work trigonometry with, bake cookies for, and generally tolerate for such long extents of time for such paltry returns of goods and services. They are a trap for the unwary ... all of us.”
― W. Clark Boutwell, Outland Exile

“He's fine. He's fine,' he kept saying as the baby became ever more cranky and bewildered; screaming in terror if she tried to put him down.

'Why should he be unhappy?' she wanted to say. 'He has had so few days in this world. Why should the unhappiness start here?”
― Anne Enright, Yesterday's Weather

“Cows' milk also is poor in iron, and certain forms of cows' milk cause blood and thus iron loss from the gastrointestinal tract. Iron-fortified cereal-based complementary foods – infant cereals – are recommended to supply the iron needs of older infants.”
― Richard Theuer

“Once we learn words, it is seemingly impossible to think without them. In fact, this is the prevailing explanation for infantile amnesia: our preverbal memories cannot be retrieved because they are stored in a different nonverbal code that is difficult to convert (Simcock & Hayne, 2003).”
― Jennifer Vonk, The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Evolutionary Psychology

“...before most of us possess an inkling that babies could be listening to us, infants are making astonishing connections between listening to human voices and developing their language system.

Think how much more can happen in those regions when parents slowly, deliberately read to their children, *just to them*, with mutually focused attention. This disarmingly simple act makes huge contributions: it provides not only the most palpable associations with reading, but also a time when parent and child are together in a timeless interaction that involves shared attention; learning about words, sentences, and concepts; and even learning what a book is. One of the most salient influences on young children's attention involves the shared gaze that occurs and develops while parents read to them. With little conscious effort children learn to focus their visual attention on what their parent or caretaker is looking at without losing an ounce of their own curiosity and exploratory behaviors. As the philosopher Charles Taylor notes, "The crucial condition for human language learning is *joint* attention," which he and others who are involved in studying the ontogenesis of language consider one of the most important features of human evolution.”
― Maryanne Wolf, Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World

“Let the infant make his first steps on his own; the first urge to walk, just like that of being, must come from him or her alone. - Primal Rule of Parenthood”
― Lamine Pearlheart, Walking the Soul

“Lo, great and small say, 'I wish i were dead’
Little children say, “He should not have made me live!”
Lo, children of nobles are dashed against wails,
Infants are put out on high ground.”
― Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

“Dogs have owners, cats have staff, and babies have room service.”
― Nanette L Avery

“There are no people more peaceful than infants.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Even though we shall never know what infants think, we can assume that their first experiences of the world are sensory. These will be made up in utero, for example, of the sound of the mother’s heart and internal organs, the infiltration of light, the senses of movement and taste, and later the sense of smell. What is important is the heterogeneity of the primitive sensorium in its apprehension of lived experience. I believe that many schizophrenics return to this early sensorial world, to somatoform experience and representation. Before wording or conceptual thinking, somatoforms express the self ’s nascent experience through the body’s lexicon. One difficulty we face in understanding schizophrenics is the extent to which we have lost touch with such early forms of experience and representation.”
― Christopher Bollas, When the Sun Bursts: The Enigma of Schizophrenia