Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen.
Denial exists because human infants though equipped with trust-o-meters are built to trust blindly and absolutely any older person who wanders past.
I always supported the women I worked with having time off to go to parent-teacher conferences and doctors' appointments or bringing their infants into the office.
Children even infants are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.
It's all too easy when talking about female gymnasts to fall into the trap of infantilizing them spending more time worrying more about female vulnerability than we do celebrating female strength.
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace more about killing that we know about living.
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.
The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.
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.
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 abandoned infant's cry is rage not fear.
The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.
Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do better in school have more developed social skills and display fewer behavior problems.
I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer.
We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.
It is remarkable that this people though unarmed dares attack an armed foe the infantry defy the cavalry and by their activity and courage generally prove victors.
The level of communication you can achieve with an infant is really profound.
One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.
We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change mature and become more nuanced whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.
Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly.
Children under five are the poorest age group in America and one in four infants toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.
Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.