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Quotes About Infancy

the loneliness…the "inexpressibly delicious sensation of this memory - for as memories are older they're like wine rarer, till if you find a real old memory, one of infancy, not an established often tasted one but a brand new one, it would taste better than the Napoleon brandy Stendhal himself must have stared at…
~ Jack Kerouac
The Child, the Lord Jesus Christ . . . Word in our flesh, Wisdom in infancy, Power in weakness, and in true Man, the Lord of Majesty.
~ Pope Leo I
Through the Stages of Childhood Chapter 14 Infancy to Childhood: Training Objectives Howard's son suffered brain damage during infancy.
~ Tedd Tripp
From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.
~ John Updike
I don't think I spoke to anyone apart from my daughter for the first two years of her life.
~ Katherine Ryan
The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
~ Maria Montessori
I think I remember being held by my mum as a baby.
~ Olivia Colman
AI cloud is just very, very nascent.
~ Fei-Fei Li
The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.
~ Christopher Hitchens
In the infancy of new religions, the wise and learned commonly esteem the matter too inconsiderable to deserve their attention or regard. And when afterwards they would willingly detect the cheat in order to undeceive the deluded multitude, the season is now past, and the records and witnesses, which might clear up the matter, have perished beyond recovery.
~ Christopher Hitchens
One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms - had the smallest idea what was going on. It comes from the bawling and fearful infancy of our species, and is a babyish attempt to meet our inescapable demand for knowledge ( as well as for comfort, reassurance, and other infantile needs.)
~ Christopher Hitchens
This is the pleasantest part of life. Oblivion throws her light coverlet over our infancy; and, soon after we are out of the cradle we forget how soundly we had been slumbering, and how delightful were our dreams. Toil and pleasure contend for us almost the instant we rise from it: and weariness follows whichever has carried us away. We stop awhile, look around us, wonder to find we have completed the circle of existence, fold our arms, and fall asleep again.
~ landor walter savage iv
My Tom died as babies do, gently and without complaint. Because they have been such a little time with us, they seem to hold to life but weakly.
~ Geraldine Brooks
feedings increased first during the next growth
~ Gina Ford
Suck, baby, suck! mother's love grows by giving, Drain the sweet founts that only thrive by wasting...
~ Charles Lamb
Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life.
~ Herbert Read
Nations, like men, have their infancy.
~ Henry Bolingbroke
But the concept of knighthood only began to emerge in the second half of the eleventh century and it remained in its infancy even as William Marshal arrived at Tancarville and grew towards manhood. William lived through the precise period in which the ideas, rituals and customs of knighthood coalesced. Indeed, his own celebrated career as one of Europe's greatest knights helped to mould this warrior class.
~ Thomas Asbridge
Todos nós crescemos vendo os mesmos programas de TV. É como se tivéssemos os mesmos implantes artificiais de memória. Não nos recordamos de quase nada da nossa verdadeira infância, mas nos lembramos de tudo o que aconteceu com as mesmas famílias dos seriados de comédia. Temos os mesmos objetivos básicos. Todos nós temos os mesmos medos.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Omnium Rerum Principia Parva Sunt – 'The beginnings of all things are small
~ Cicero
The beginnings of all things are small.
~ Cicero
infancy presents body and spirit in unity
~ Coleridge
Infancy presents body and spirit in unity: the body is all animated.
~ Coleridge
Psychologists have observed that one of the most basic human needs, beginning at birth, is to be gazed upon by another. Mothers throughout the world have been observed spending long periods staring into the eyes of their babies with a characteristic tilt of the head. To be seen is to be real, and without another to gaze upon us, we are nothing. Part of the terror of being lost stems from the idea of never being seen again.)
~ Laurence Gonzales