Top 55 Infant Quotes

Back in the early ’40s, they used to call Down syndrome infants and babies ‘mongoloids.’ It’s very hard for parents.

I recovered my infant Judaism, but in a reformist version.

As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I’m going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I’ve seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.

To accustom the infant to get out of its own difficulties or to calm it by rocking it may be to lay the foundations of a good or of a bad disposition.

I’ve always been maternal and Russia was a country where it’s possible to adopt infants – my English social worker told me not even to waste my time trying here.

Infants have around 30,000 tastebuds, only about a third of which survive into adulthood, so a child’s sensitivity towards extremes of sweet, sour and bitter flavours is heightened.

The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related.

Ladies: You have to support an infant with a hand under its head.

We know taking care of an infant isn’t just women’s work – so why should maternity leave be the norm when paternity leave is the exception? There’s no question that taking care of and bonding with a new baby is just as important and meaningful for dads as it is for moms.

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

Having an infant is difficult. It’s a lot of work, and I didn’t hire any help because I overestimated my own abilities.

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

My grandmother had six kids – one died as an infant – and she was dirt-poor, and all her kids got an education. And my mom grew up poor. And they both worked so hard and cultivated so much of their own happiness. I wanted to have that like an amulet. Not like armor, but like a magic feather. Like Dumbo’s magic feather.

When a baby is in the room with two women, and one is considered more beautiful than the other, the infant’s eyes will go to the more beautiful one.

The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.

Regressing back to an infant state is nothing to be proud of. Rich Americans don’t drive themselves, don’t cook, don’t do their own nails/hair/make-up, don’t shop, and I suppose all they’ve got in common with rich British people is that they don’t raise their own kids, either.

An empty book is like an infant’s soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.

Because sanitation has so many effects across all aspects of development – it affects education, it affects health, it affects maternal mortality and infant mortality, it affects labor – it’s all these things, so it becomes a political football. Nobody has full responsibility.

No one would look at an infant baby asleep, and say ‘What a lazy baby!’ We know sleeping is non-negotiable for a baby. But that notion is quickly abandoned.

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

As Virginia’s lieutenant governor, I genuinely believe that Democrats and Republicans should be able to agree that reducing unintended pregnancies, decreasing abortion rates and improving the health of mothers and infants are important public health goals that should be carefully considered and debated.

I was an infant when I was living in Canada, but when I was adopted, I was a baby, so I grew up in Maine and Massachusetts, and I returned to Saskatchewan as – in my late teens.

The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.

BPA is just one chemical used to make plastic baby bottles and in the lining of food, beverage, and infant formula containers. Research shows that children are exposed to BPA by drinking from polycarbonate bottles and consuming food from containers made using BPA.

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.

In primary schools, I set two main objectives – to cut infant class sizes and improve literacy and numeracy.

The death of a 20-year-old woman is intuitively worse than that of a 2-month-old girl, even though the baby has had less life. The 20-year-old has a much more developed personality than the infant, and has drawn upon the investment of others to begin as-yet-unfulfilled projects.

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.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

I believe the only way we’ll be able to solve infant mortality – and other huge social problems – is by designing solutions for those with the greatest intent to carry it out.

My husband was 50; I was in my late 30s. We had lived adulthoods that did not include infants, except as metaphors. And then, like so many in today’s America, we had a baby in later life.

Recessions are never good for anyone. A sputtering economy means miserable financial, emotional, and physical-health consequences for everyone from infants to retirees.

If anything, all homes should have piped water supply and sanitation, which could improve public-health indicators and reduce infant mortality.

There are so many ways to characterize evolutionary success. If one criterion is the number of millions of years that the species persists, we’re still just infants. We’re way too young of a species to tell if we were a creative fluke or if we have any staying power.

Embrace’s infant warmers are a novel solution. The product has been designed specifically for resource-constrained settings.

The first musical sound I ever heard was from a banjo. My father played, and I was an infant in a crib, and something just stayed with me from those early days.

We are not born with effective vision. The human infant has to learn how to see. The eyes gather information, they transmit it to the brain, but the brain doesn’t know how to process it yet. We learn how to see in a way that’s very similar to the way we learn how to speak. It takes a couple of years.

Kids are fabulous, but when you’re home all day with an infant that can’t talk, your brain starts to kind of melt, and I thought, ‘I have to do something, or my brain is just going to liquefy.’

She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the convent; but they were always baptized and immediately strangled!

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

The level of communication you can achieve with an infant is really profound.

Thomas More rarely discussed his siblings, and two of them are never mentioned by him. It is likely that they were part of that infant mortality which had provoked such concern for early baptism.

I am always suspicious of those who impose ‘rules’ on child rearing. Every child is different in terms of temperament and learning, and every parent responds to a particular child, not some generalized infant or youngster.

I wish I’d been a mixed infant.

It is terrible when an infant dies, but worse, most people think, when a three-year-old child dies, and worse still when an adolescent does.

We know from scientific studies that infants as young as six months old can distinguish right from wrong and have a preference for the good over the bad. I think it’s important to design our education and our schools around that insight, to bring out the best in our kids.

Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of its infant poor.

The summer after I got divorced, my children asked to sleep in my bed again. It would be the first time we’d shared a bed since they were infants.

‘Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream’ is an intentionally angry film. How could it not be when the chance of an infant dying is five times greater on the Bronx Park Avenue than on Manhattan’s Park Avenue just across the Harlem River?

Helping women make informed decisions about the best contraceptive methods for their families would also help us ensure that more infants are celebrating their first birthdays.

Giving birth to a baby does not make you an infant.

During the first few months of an infant’s life, its manner of taking the breast, of laying its head on the pillow, etc., becomes crystallized into imperative habits. This is why education must begin in the cradle.

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.