Infant Quotations

'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?

When I did get married and then had children, it was Beatles' songs I sang to them at night. As one of the youngest of 24 cousins, I had never held an infant or baby-sat. I didn't know any lullabies, so I sang Sam and Grace to sleep with 'I Will' and 'P.S. I Love You.'

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.

The Moon is a ball of left-over debris from a cosmic collision that took place more than four billion years ago. A Mars-sized asteroid - one of the countless planetesimals that were frantically churning our solar system into existence - hit the infant Earth, bequeathing it a very large natural satellite.

Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of sub-Saharan Africa. We have a public education system that ranks below that of almost any other Western nation.

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.

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

The primary problem in the psychology of becoming is to account for the transformation by which the unsocialized infant becomes an adult with structured loves, hates, loyalties, and interests, capable of taking his place in a complexly ordered society.

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

Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society.

Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man can think of the Queen of the angels, during the time that she suffered so much with the Infant Jesus, without giving thanks to St. Joseph for the services he rendered them then.

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

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

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

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn't have connectives like 'and' that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

We're still in the infant stages of building a Division I basketball program.

We have never before been able to understand the infant universe with such precision.

I wish I'd been a mixed infant.

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.

Several of the victims have suffered multiple gunshot wounds, and the infant appears to have been strangled,

Selling the HP ethnic foods business, which is sold primarily through the ethnic distribution channel, is in line with our strategy of focusing on three core categories where Heinz is a sector leader: ketchup, condiments & sauces; meals & snacks; and infant nutrition.

Selling the HP Ethnic Foods business is in line with our strategy of focusing on three core categories where Heinz is a sector leader: ketchup, condiments & sauces; meals & snacks; and infant nutrition.

My elementary education was at Christ Church infant school and St. Stephen's junior school. At St. Stephen's, I encountered my first real mentor, the headmaster Mr. Broakes. He must have spotted something unusual in me, for he spent lots of time encouraging my interest in mathematics.

More babies still die of sudden infant death syndrome than any other cause during infancy beyond the newborn period.

One of the ironies is that most of the other countries spend considerably less than we do on health care and many other countries have better track records on rates of mortality (and) infant mortality.

If we could obtain a distinct and full history of all that hath passed in the mind of a child from the beginning of life and sensation till it grows up to the use of reason, how its infant faculties began to work, and how they brought forth and ripened all the various notions, opin-ions, and sentiments, which we find in ourselves when we come to be capable of reflection, this would be a trea-sure of natural history which would probably give more light into the human faculties, than all the systems of philosophers about them from the beginning of the world.

I don't know what would be worse, maybe a tariff on infant formula.

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 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.

I bought tiny infant onesies while still in college and compiled a killer toy collection throughout my 20s and 30s.

But what am I?/ An infant crying in the night:/ An infant crying for the light:/ And with no language but a cry.

We report today the most precise measurements of our infant universe.

Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used our wits to adapt to and flourish in habitats as varied as deserts, Arctic tundra, tropical rainforests, wetlands and high mountain ranges.

He continued to be and infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy

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

Last night the state police in Middlesex received a tip that possibly a baby or infant was buried there, ... We proceeded to search the area around the house as well as contact and conduct interviews with the people who lived in the house. The information they provided corroborated what we found, which was the remains of a fetus the family buried here.

Our children continue to be healthier ... because our infant and adolescent mortality rates continue to decline,

Parents should continue using these rear-facing infant car seats, but should not use the carrying handle until a repair kit has been installed.

Our goal is to drive growth and innovation in Europe by investing in the three core categories of Ketchup, condiments and sauces; infant nutrition; and meals and snacks.

People of color fare worse than their counterparts on a number of health issues - such as infant mortality, asthma, and diabetes.

Some of the adults held an infant over the side and threatened to drop the baby into the water unless we stood off.

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.

You can dredge material from near the infant Sun all the way out.

We are in the infant stages of looking at it.

Hitler admired Stalin, quite properly seeing himself as a mere infant in crime compared to his great exemplar.

While overall rates have decreased, several communities account for a disproportionate share of infant deaths,

We are working closely with medical and community partners to reduce persistent disparities, promote women's control over their reproductive choices, including access to emergency contraception, increase drug-free pregnancies, promote breastfeeding, and increase the number of infants put 'back to sleep' to reduce Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS),

We have been able to objectively stand back and measure activity in the pre-term infant brain in response to a noxious or painful stimulus. That's never been done before. Anyone working with pre-term babies would feel intuitively that they're likely to feel pain - but before now we didn't know.

When numbers go up, there's always a possibility that rates are going to go up. We don't want to leave any stone unturned to prevent infant deaths.

There is a belief that the health MDGs are all about building health centres, ... whereas 55% of infant mortality is down to poor drinking water and hygiene - environmental issues.

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.

We found the original draft of the scientific paper, which said, 'secondhand smoke increases the risk of sudden infant death,' in Phillip Morris's corporate files along with their suggestions to Sullivan to change it.

What is unnerving are the leaps in infant deaths following the leap in radioactive fallout.

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

Elizabeth is Chuck's daughter and I got to tell you, Elizabeth, it's very strange for those of us who have seen you as an infant and a little girl to see you holding a microphone. How does it feel for you?

The thing is, these people being housed in shelters are getting food and drinking water, and they don't have the room to acquire a lot of possessions. They will need the basic personal care items such as diapers and infant formula, but their basic needs are being provided by the Red Cross and the Salvation Army. That takes money: There's no way around it. A 16-ounce can of food won't feed very many people in a shelter, but a truckload of No. 10 cans will.

Sadly, infant abductions happen. Not with a lot of regularity, but they do happen across the country,

After many years of collaborative efforts to decrease infant mortality, Michigan recorded in 2004 its lowest rate ever of 7.6 (deaths) per thousand live births, a testament to the hard work going on at both the state and local levels.

A reasonable estimate is that an infant loses 1-2 IQ points per month and sustains predictable losses in growth as well as motor and language development between 4 and 24 months of age while living in an institutional environment.

A world of blossoms for the bee, Flowers for the sick girl's silent room, For the glad infant sprigs of bloom, We plant with the apple tree.

This is despite a 53% decrease in the U.S. SIDS rate since the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended in 1992 that babies be placed to sleep on their backs, ... This reduced rate reflects nearly 3,000 fewer infant deaths per year, or over 15,000 fewer deaths since the original back-to-sleep recommendation.

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

Although the reasons for the rise in deaths when a parent sleeps with their infant on a sofa are unclear, we strongly recommend that parents avoid this sleeping environment.

A team is like a child. First it's the infant stage then the adolescent stage. I think we're in the adult stage. Hopefully, we don't revert back to the adolescence stage.

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.

It's pure nonsense that a state legislator would think there's nothing he can do to benefit Native Americans. The high infant mortality rate on reservations is due to devastating poverty. Yet the state has not passed any laws in the last several years that would boost any of the health or education programs within the reservation community. As for tribal sovereignty, the only time the state wants to recognize it is when it benefits the state, as in this instance when it allows Senator Napoli to opt out of an intelligent response.

The baby boomers waited quite a while before they had their own children, so they were willing to give the children the best of everything. Marketers of designer brands recognized there was a growing demand for infant and baby care products.

The needs in Routt County for infant and toddler care are huge -- it's not just North Routt.

If you give a child -- a young baby -- one teaspoon of acetaminophen infant drops, you are giving them the equivalent of one Extra Strength Tylenol tablet.

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

Being realistic about a game like this, we talk about these as opportunities. We want to take advantage of them; we're still in the infant stages of building a Division I basketball program.

Christ commands those who believe to be baptized. Pedobaptists adopt a system which tends to preclude the baptism of believers. They baptize the involuntary infant and deprive him of the privilege of ever professing his faith in the appointed way. If this system were universally adopted, it would banish believers' baptism out of the world.

Child support is ordered in cases where the dependent is an infant through 18 years of age.

Those who 'cursed the day they were born' must have been infant prodigies.

Birth is a shipwreck, the mewling infant shored on unknown land.

I must oppose the use of federal funds for a policy of killing infants.

Infants are interesting only to their parents.

The wailing of the newborn infant is mingled with the dirge for the dead.

Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all.

The Grizzly Bear is huge and wild; / He has devoured the infant child. / The infant child is not aware / He has been eaten by the bear.

The infant mortality rate is shameful, ... If you didn't know better, you'd think it's a statistic for a Third World country.

The difference between men and women is that, if given the choice between saving the life of an infant or catching a fly ball, a woman will automatically choose to save the infant, without even considering if there's a man on base.

An adult bed is not the place for a small infant because there are so many factors.

We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.

I'm sorry, but were you dropped on your head as an infant?

Killing a defective infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Sometimes it is not wrong at all.

The infant is ten and he stays,

You abilities are too infant-like for doing much alone.

He who possess virtue in abundance may be compared to an infant

Language was not powerful enough to describe the infant phenomenon.

Subscribe to our noble society for providing the infant negroes in the West Indies with flannel waistcoats and moral pocket handkerchiefs.

The bloody Piedmontese that rolled / Mother with infant down the rocks.

Nobody agrees with anybody else anyhow, but adults conceal it and infants show it.