16 Quotes About Infancy

The first few years of a child’s life are filled with wonder, excitement, and a lot of potential. Unfortunately, many of us never learn how to be good parents, and it shows in the way we treat our children. If you have children, these quotes will help you better understand your role in their development and help you connect with them more closely.

There’s an infant part in our souls which longs for...
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There’s an infant part in our souls which longs for the lullaby truths of life every night for a tranquil slumber. Munia Khan
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If an infant had the capacity to think hard about this world, it would have wanted to go back to its mother's womb again Munia Khan
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The natural heat, say the good-fellows, first seats itself in the feet: that concerns infancy; thence it mounts into the middleregion, where it makes a long abode and produces, in my opinion, the sole true pleasures of human life; all other pleasures in comparison sleep; towards the end, like a vapor that still mounts upward, it arrives at the throat, where it makes its final residence, and concludes the progress. Michel De Montaigne
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In infancy, our blood is strong and our energy is plentiful. Mind and body, thought and action are one. Everything we do is in harmony with the natural order. The infant is not affected by things that happen around him. Virtue and ethics cannot restrain his will. Naked and free of social conventions, he follows the natural path of the heart. Liezi
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...as we are endowed....with rhetorics....none will deny....of innocence....towards scribbling....of love lines....and of lust....to what seems like male....to what seems like female....in those days....I mean nothing....but in high school.....even me....I can't deny. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours. Mary Baker Eddy
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Facing a language you don't know is like returning to your infancy when your mother tongue used to be a foreign language to you Munia Khan
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I had been riding horses before my memory kicked in, so my life with horses had no beginning. It simply appeared from the fog of infancy. I survived a difficult childhood by traveling on the backs of horses, and in adulthood the pattern didn't change. Monty Roberts
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Infancy is irretrievable. Its memories live underground. To what extent they return by stealth or are triggered by various catalysts remains an ongoing question. Siri Hustvedt
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Love at infancy is the strongest and puriest of all, it is mixed with infatuation and deep happiness. Persistent smile brings out hollow dimples, and persistent frowns brings out hollow wrinkles. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Love at infancy is the strongest and puriest of all, it is mixed with infatuation and deep happiness. Michael Bassey Johnson
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Heaven lies around us in our infancy. William Golding
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RETURN TO TENDEROur aging parents deserve the same loving care they gave us in infancy Kamil Ali Kamil Ali
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Still humanity is in her infancy, so often we engage in fighting to destroy ourself. Debasish Mridha
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The psychologist Jerome Kagan has argued that parenting has a threshold function: up until that threshold is crossed, the effects of a child's very early experience even out in the end. But parenting that crosses the threshold–abuse, stress, utter indifference–can sink in deep, especially if the baby remains in that environment. There's a lot to be said for this perspective on parenthood, not least that it offers well-meaning parents some relief from scaremongering. It also accounts for the astounding flexibility of the human infant: he is game for the craziest parenting stuff you can come up with. . Nicholas Day