Top 358 Infant Quotes & Sayings

Giving birth to a baby does not make you an infant.

I wish I'd been a mixed infant.

When we commit violence against an infant girl, we call it child abuse; when we commit violence against an infant boy, we call it circumcision.

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

I got possessed by music as an infant.

We all have an infant inside of us, but the infant doesn't have to run the show.

He who possess virtue in abundance may be compared to an infant.

Avoidance behavior is a response designed to protect the infant from behavioral disorganization. If we transfer this concept to adult life, we can see that an avoidant infant might very well develop into a person whose principal need was to find some kind of meaning and order in life which was not entirely, or even chiefly, dependent upon interpersonal relationships

Pity the poor infant. Born perfect into the world from imperfect parents.

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

Birth is a shipwreck, the mewling infant shored on unknown land.

Innovative efforts should never report to line managers charged with responsibility for ongoing operations. The new project is an infant and will remain one for the foreseeable future, and infants belong in the nursery. The 'adults', that is, the executives in charge of existing businesses or products will have neither the time nor understanding for the infant.

What is wrong with me i just bought a bag of weed from an infant.

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

The fear we throw about danger is always as disproportionate as a paternal shirt on an infant.

The infant is ten and he stays.

I wander thro' each charter'd street, Near where the charter'd Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. 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. How the Chimney-sweeper's cry Every black'ning Church appalls; And the hapless Soldier's sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls. But most thro' midnight streets I hear How the youthful Harlot's curse Blasts the new born Infant's tear, And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.

It is characteristic of the emotions of the very young infant that they are of an extreme and powerful nature.

Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze.

It is noticeable how intuitively in age we go back with strange fondness to all that is fresh in the earliest dawn of youth. If we never cared for little children before, we delight to see them roll in the grass over which we hobble on crutches. The grandsire turns wearily from his middle-aged, careworn son, to listen with infant laugh to the prattle of an infant grandchild. It is the old who plant young trees; it is the old who are most saddened by the autumn; and feel most delight in the returning spring.

The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.

Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.

Those who have lost an infant are never, as it were, without an infant child. Their other children grow up to manhood and womanhood, and suffer all the changes of mortality; but this one alone is rendered an immortal child; for death has arrested it with his kindly harshness, and blessed it into an eternal image of youth and innocence.

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.

It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to baptism; and it is through this one Spirit that the infant so presented is reborn. For it is not written, 'Unless a man be born again by the will of his parents' or 'by the faith of those presenting him or ministering to him,' but, 'Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit.' The water, therefore, manifesting exteriorly the sacrament of grace, and the Spirit effecting interiorly the benefit of grace, both regenerate in one Christ that man who was generated in Adam.

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

He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.

You're in a terrible spot. It's too late for you to retreat but too soon to act. All you can do is witness. You're in the miserable position of an infant who cannot return to the mother's womb, but neither can he run around and act. All an infant can do is witness and listen to the stupendous tales of action being told to him. You are at that precise point now. You cannot go back to the womb of your old world, but you cannot act with power either. For you there is only witnessing acts of power and listening to tales of power.

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.

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

I can sleep anywhere. I'm like an infant.

No animal is so inexhaustible as an excited infant.

Sooner strangle an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.

Ladies: You have to support an infant with a hand under its head.

The good enough mother, owing to her deep empathy with her infant, reflects in her face his feelings; this is why he sees himselfin her face as if in a mirror and finds himself as he sees himself in her. The not good enough mother fails to reflect the infant's feelings in her face because she is too preoccupied with her own concerns, such as her worries over whether she is doing right by her child, her anxiety that she might fail him.

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

If, in the case of the worst sinners and those who formerly sinned much against God, when afterwards they believe, the remission of their sins is granted and no one is held back from baptism and grace, how much more, then, should an infant not be held back, who, having but recently been born, has done no sin, except that, born of the flesh according to Adam, he has contracted the contagion of that old death from his first being born. For this very reason does he [an infant] approach more easily to receive the remission of sins: because the sins forgiven him are not his own but those of another

I think having an infant causes a bit of an identity crisis.

All babies are incoherent, but they grow up. That is the principle difference between an infant and a poet.

There is not a man in America who has not had a secret ambition to boot an infant.

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

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

In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged.

But what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry.

We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself.

The nature of the infant is not just a new permutation-and-combination of elements contained in the natures of the parents. There is in the nature of the infant that which is utterly unknown in the natures of the parents.

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

The most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it.

A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant!

In natural pregnancy, more than half of fertilized eggs fail to implant or are otherwise lost. Should we regard that as an instance of infant mortality? And if so, why are we not mounting ambitious public health campaigns to try to save and rescue all of the fertilized eggs that are lost in natural pregnancy? We would need a public health campaign of massive proportions if there really were over a fifty percent rate of infant mortality.

The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related.

You abilities are too infant-like for doing much alone.

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

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

Those who 'cursed the day they were born' must have been infant prodigies.

When the death of a disabled infant will lead to the birth of another infant with better prospects of a happy life, the total amount of happiness will be greater if the disabled infant is killed. The loss of happy life for the first infant is outweighed by the gain of happier life for the second. Therefore, if killing the hemophiliac infant has no adverse effect on others, it would, according to the total view, be right to kill him.

Can I see another's woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief? Can I see a falling tear, And not feel my sorrow's share? Can a father see his child Weep, nor be with sorrow filled? Can a mother sit and hear An infant groan, an infant fear? No, no! never can it be! Never, never can it be!

The euro is a sickly premature infant, the result of an over-hasty monetary union.

I think I was an infant when I was on 'Gilmore Girls.'

An empty book is like an Infant's soul, in which anything may be written.