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Quotes About Infants

Something as simple as better breastfeeding could save a million children a year.
~ Anne M. Mulcahy
My education started with Latin taught at home by a governess, I can't imagine why, and for some reason I attended the Infants Department of the Oxford High School for Girls before moving to the Dragon School at the dangerous age of 8 or so.
~ Tim Hunt
I think letting babies cry it out is barbaric. Why would parenting stop when it's dark outside? You can't expect a baby to know that he's supposed to sleep just because we want to go to bed.
~ Holly Marie Combs
Parker was a nightmare. But Carter seems to like his sleep and is a chilled, content baby.
~ Frankie Bridge
When fathers contested custody, even of infants, "good enough" mothers would consistently lose children due to (false) allegations of mental illness or sexual promiscuity.
~ Phyllis Chesler
There's nothing more important than the health of our babies.
~ Thalia
Babies got it going on!
~ Margaret Cho
I've just always loved babies, even when I was a baby.
~ Domino Kirke
I do not like babies who cry.
~ Nadya Suleman
I love babies; there was a need in me for one more.
~ Denise Lewis
There's something illiberal about the way infants are thrust into the hands of people who have no idea what they're doing, who can only experiment.
~ Adam Haslett
We have to ask ourselves, 'What kind of world is it where a baby-food executive substitutes artificial flavoring and sugar for apple juice? What kind of businesses have we created when we even lie to infants?'
~ Paul Hawken
Experiments have shown that six-month-old infants see the sequence of events as a cause-effect scenario, and they indicate surprise when the sequence is altered. We are evidently ready from birth to have impressions of causality, which do not depend on reasoning about patterns of causation.
~ Daniel Kahneman
If the second object starts moving instantly, they describe it as having been "launched" by the first. Experiments have shown that six-month-old infants see the sequence of events as a cause-effect scenario, and they indicate surprise when the sequence is altered. We are evidently ready from birth to have impressions of causality, which do not depend on reasoning about patterns of causation. They are products of System 1.
~ Daniel Kahneman
babies don't know anything but nipples and lullabies.
~ Daniel Woodrell
So clean house! Make a clean sweep of malice and pretense, envy and hurtful talk. You've had a taste of God. Now, like infants at the breast, drink deep of God's pure kindness. Then you'll grow up mature and whole in God. 1 Peter 2:1–3, THE MESSAGE
~ Darlene Zschech
I believe the hatred of abortion is often because it gives women an autonomy and freedom equivalent to that of men, and that hatred is often expressed by people who show no interest in the health of infants or the wellbeing of children. Or women. And at this point, in science, facts, and truth. Their lies pave the way for their laws.
~ Rebecca Solnit
If I had the power to influence Indian journals, I would have the following headlines printed in bold letters on the first page: Milk for the infants , Food for the adults and Education for all
~ Lala Lajpat Rai
The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation… surpass in atrocity any tenets that have ever been admitted into any pagan creed.
~ William Edward Hartpole Lecky
The Highlanders regale themselves with whisky. They find it an excellent preservation against the winter cold. It is given with great success to the infants in the confluent smallpox.
~ Tobias Smollett
There is growing consensus that new parents need help--information, advice, practical assistance--and that infants and toddlers need stimulation as well as care and nurture.
~ Sheila Kamerman
Most babies know how to win us over. We cannot help but smile at them and watch them smile back.
~ Madeleine M. Kunin
Ah, babies! They're more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts.
~ Tina Fey
You have to change those diapers every day. When those directions on the side of the Pampers box say, 'holds 6-12 pounds' they're not kidding!
~ Jeff Foxworthy