Infancy Is Quotes

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

  Bill Cosby

  Communication, Sisterhood, Men

  Bill Cosby (1989). “Love & Marriage”

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• Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.

  Billie Jean King

  Girl, Sports, Athletic

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

  Art Linkletter

  Life, Men, Childhood

  A Child's Garden of Misinformation (1965) ch. 8

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• Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

  Bertrand Russell

  Fear, Science, Religion

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  Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

  George Santayana

  Past, History, Progress

  "The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress", Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense by George Santayana, 1905-1906.

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• 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

  Secret, Spy, Literature

  "Bech: A Book". Book by John Updike, 1965.

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• Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Beauty, Women, Feminist

  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman ch. 3 (1792)

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• On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Art, Responsibility, Hands

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• One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms - had the smallest idea what was going on.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Ideas, Matter, Atoms

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.49, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.

  Vinoba Bhave

  Childhood, Action, Our Children

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• Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy

  Samuel Rutherford

  Grace, Glory, Infancy

  Samuel Rutherford (1867). “Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford”, p.171

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• Babies are always more trouble than you thought and more wonderful.

  Charles Osgood

  Funny, Uplifting, Baby

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• Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.

  William Wordsworth

  Inspirational, Baby, Sleep

  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 58 (1807)

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• In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Literature, Poet, Infancy

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1840). “A defence of poetry. Essay on the literature, arts, and manners of the Athenians. Preface to the Banquet of Plato. The banquet”, p.28

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

  R. D. Laing

  Trance, Posts, Hypnotic

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• Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Children, History, Former

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• Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.

  Adam Clarke

  Mean, Men, Progress

  Adam Clarke, Mrs. Richard Smith (1833). “An Account of the Infancy, Religious, and Literary Life of Adam Clarke ...: Written by One who was Intimately Acquainted with Him from His Boyhood to the Sixtieth Year of His Age”, p.18

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• Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

  James W. Loewen

  Past, History, Progress

  James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.16, The New Press

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• Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.

  George Mason

  Rights, Mind, Sentimental

  Extracts from the Virginia Charters written by George Mason, July 1773.

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• Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy.

  Thomas Jane

  Couple, Years, Careers

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. February 20, 2004.

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

  Mary Astell

  Want, Advantage, Reproach

  1694 A Serious Proposal to the Ladies For the Advancement of their True and Greatest Interest,'By a Lover of Her Sex', pt.1.

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• Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

  Errol Morris

  Past, History, Ironic

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• Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

  George Santayana

  Change, Wisdom, Memories

  The Life of Reason vol. 1, ch. 12 (1905)

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• 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 of 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. Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Children, Order, Ideas

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.67, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• We tend to focus our attention at Christmas on the infancy of Christ.
  The greater truth of the holiday is His deity.
  More astonishing than a baby in the manger is the truth that this promised baby
  is the omnipotent Creator of the heavens and the earth!

  John F. MacArthur

  Christmas, Baby, Holiday

  John F. MacArthur (2006). “Truth for Today: A Daily Touch of God's Grace”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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