You cannot apply your high standards to a country [Egypt] burdened with decades of autocratic rule. Our democracy is still in its infancy.
A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back -- it is already so far.
in came. . . a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.
The prehistorical and primitive period represents the true infancy of the mind.
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual.
Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it.
At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done
In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders.
After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.
A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age.
On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.
The critic does his utmost to blight genius in his infancy.
Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.
Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.
Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy.
As long as a believer is worrying about whether or not they are truly saved, they will never grow up in spiritual maturity. It basically guarantees that a Christian will remain stuck in spiritual infancy. And worse, it paints a picture of God that is not only untrue but also unbiblical. It cheapens the gift of salvation – the gift of grace – and make God look like a finicky human.
Children are the future, because mankind is moving more and more towards infancy.
Admiration spoils all from infancy.
We are still in the infancy of naming what is really happening on software development projects.
Heaven lies around us in our infancy.