Infant Quotes

• There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint such a picture, the canvas would show only a woman looking down at her empty arms.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Sorrow, Vision, Arms

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• One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.

  Don Marquis

  Important, Literature, Care

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• Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles.

  William Blake

  Baby, Sweet, Joy

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.155, Pearson Education

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• 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.

  Dave Barry

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality.

  Felicity Huffman

  Pregnancy, Use, Way

  "Don't threaten women's health care" By Felicity Huffman, www.cnn.com. February 29, 2012.

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

  William Blake

  Nurse, Desire, Criminal Mind

  William Blake, “The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell”

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

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Cry, Rage, Abandoned

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

  Lauren Conrad

  Sleep, I Can

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• The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.

  Rajneesh

  Mothers Day, Mom, Children

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• Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.

  Arthur Cleveland Coxe

  Baby, Nature, Flower

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• Where do we end, and what is the self? You cut off your arm, you're still yourself. You cut off two of your arms, you're still yourself. You cut off your arms and your legs, you're still yourself, right? Also, the idea of the self seems to be embedded right around here, right around the eyes. Infants know to look at the eyes.

  Mike Cahill

  Eye, Cutting, Self

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We not only respect babies, we demonstrate our respect every time we interact with them. Respecting a child means treating even the youngest infant as a unique human being, not as an object

  Magda Gerber

  Baby, Children, Mean

  Magda Gerber (1998). “Dear Parent: Caring for Infants with Respect”

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• In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive.  And at the end of life, we need others to survive.  But here's the secret, in between, we need others as well.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Secret, Needs, End Of Life

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• The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

  Rajneesh

  Mom, Mother, Baby

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• A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Motivational, Baby

  Mark Twain (2015). “Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend”, p.41, St. Martin's Press

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• Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

  A. A. Milne

  Relationship, Sympathy, Baby

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

  Charles Osgood

  Funny, Uplifting, Baby

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• Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

  Bill Cosby

  Motivational, Baby, Children

  Twitter post from Nov 06, 2009

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• Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child.

  Tina Brown

  Baby, Falling In Love, Children

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• A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.

  Victor Hugo

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works: Les Miserables (Fantine)”, p.160, Wildside Press LLC

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• I always wondered why babies spend so much time sucking their thumbs. Then I tasted baby food.

  Robert Orben

  Mom, Baby, Food

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• Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving.

  Penelope Leach

  Baby, Giving, Newborn

  Penelope Leach (2013). “Your Baby and Child”, p.10, Knopf

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

  Francis Bacon

  Death, Children, Science

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Death'

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• The more you give, the more you can give.

  Roy T. Bennett

  True Love, Baby, Generous Love

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

  Stephen Fry

  Comedy, Backwards, Clothings

  Stephen Fry (2010). “Paperweight”, p.153, Random House

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