Top 294 Infancy Quotes & Sayings

I've protected my protracted period of infancy. For many years. And I have no desire to become an adult.

The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.

Heaven lies around us in our infancy.

If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Tenderness is the infancy of love.

When I look back to my infancy many images come to mind, beautiful and ugly.

The boy taught from infancy to be tough is emotionally doomed.

Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.

Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.

Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours.

In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

It is hard to look at the tumor and not come away with the feeling that one has encountered a powerful monster in its infancy

The writer, like everyone else, is equipped in infancy with a thick padding of things he believes to be true, but which aren't.

In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.

The little suckings and smackings of the perversions are the sounds of joyous infancy.

It's always hard - it's a little counterintuitive to leave your baby at any point during the infancy.

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

The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy.

Christianity is the companion of liberty in all its conflicts, the cradle of its infancy, and the divine source of its claims.

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.

We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

I believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy.

Admiration spoils all from infancy.

I fear theology is--in the words attributed to William Temple--"still in its infancy" when it comes to animals.

Every generation rediscovers and re-evaluates the meaning of infancy and childhood.

Unteachable from infancy to tomb — There is the first & main characteristic of mankind.

Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.

In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders.

The neuroscience area - which is absolutely in its infancy - is much more important than genetics.

The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe.

From infancy onward, children are the most fantastic learners in the world.

Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.

Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.

From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work.

Self-acceptance begins in infancy, with the influence of your parents and siblings and other important people.

Living with golden fantasies of an endlessly nurtured infancy can be a neurotic refusal to grow up.

When mankind was in its infancy, steeped in uncertainty, ignorance, and error, was it possible to foresee what system it would adopt for preservation.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy.

My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood.

Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it.

I fought for my survival since infancy.

Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.

We are still in the infancy of naming what is really happening on software development projects.

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.

No one alive today has a single ancestor in his or her past who died in infancy. We are the champions, my friend!

The enthusiasm of old men is singularly like that of infancy.

The samskaras that were developed in previous incarnations are usually hidden by the temporary amnesia of infancy and by the transient personality.

Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the measles.

Psycholog­y is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.

If they [enlightened men] take any interest in examining, in the infancy of our species, the almost obliterated traces of so many nations that have become extinct, they will doubtless take a similar interest in collecting, amidst the darkness which covers the infancy of the globe, the traces of those revolutions which took place anterior to the existence of all nations.

From my infancy I was imbued with high hopes and a lofty ambition.

The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy have consequences very important and of long duration.

A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age.

CHILDHOOD: The rapidly shrinking interval between infancy and first arrest on a drug or weapons charge.