The good enough mother, owing to her deep empathy with her infant, reflects in her face his feelings; this is why he sees himselfin her face as if in a mirror and finds himself as he sees himself in her. The not good enough mother fails to reflect the infant's feelings in her face because she is too preoccupied with her own concerns, such as her worries over whether she is doing right by her child, her anxiety that she might fail him.
I can sleep anywhere. I'm like an infant.
Physician Albert Scheweitzer said. " We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness. " Professor Leo Buscaglia notes, "There seems to be accumulating evidence that there is actually an inborn need for this togetherness, this human interaction, this love. It seems that without these close ties with other human beings, a new born infant, for example, can regress developmentally, lose consciousness, fall into idiocy and die.
The infant is ten and he stays.
If infants are ready to do something, they will do it. In fact, when they are ready, they have to do it.
It didn't take elaborate experiments to deduce that an infant would die from want of food. But it took centuries to figure out that infants can and do perish from want of love.
There is not a man in America who has not had a secret ambition to boot an infant.
Man and wife are equally concerned, to avoid all offence of each other, in the beginning of their conversation. Every little thing can blast an infant blossom.
I wish I'd been a mixed infant.
Manz, formerly one of Zwingli's closest allies, held that there was no biblical warrant for infant baptism. Refusing to recant his views, he was tied up and drowned in the River Limmat.
The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us.
Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.
I remember staring at my son endlessly when he was an infant, stunned by his very existence, wondering where on earth he had come from.
More generally, people who lived in a period when maternal, infant and childhood mortality were still high would have been tougher than most of us can imagine.
The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.
I'm sorry, but were you dropped on your head as an infant?
I heart abortion. Where's the shirt for that, urban outfitters?! And it won't be a normal heart. It'll be a dead infant heart. Y'know what the back will say? Problem Solved.
All babies are incoherent, but they grow up. That is the principle difference between an infant and a poet.
Nothing happens carelessly. We’re not brought into the world without reason, even though we may never understand the reason. An infant that lives an hour, that dies before it can lay eyes on those who made it, even that soul did not live without purpose: this is my sudden certainty.