Infant Quotes - Page 5

• Navajo infants get so attached to cradleboard that they cry to be tied into it. Kikuyu infants in Kenya get handed around several"mothers," all wives to one man. . . . Mothers in rural Guatemala keep their infants quiet, in dark huts. Middle-class American mothers talk a blue streak at them. Israeli kibbutz mothers give them over to a communal caretaker . . . Japanese mothers sleep with them. . . . All these tactics are compatible with normal health--physical and mental--and development in infancy. So one lesson for parents so far seems to be: Let a hundred flowers bloom.

  Melvin Konner

  Mother, Flower, Sleep

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• I cannot see how it can be argued that one should speak in tones of reverence and awe about the alleged divine instruction-in Psalms-to grab the defenseless bodies of innocent infants and dash their brains out against the nearest rocks or walls.

  Steve Allen

  Bible, Religious, Wall

  Steve Allen (1993). “More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion and Morality”

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• Cuanto más inocuo es el nombre de un arma, más horrible es su impacto. Algunas de las armas más horribles de la época de Vietnam se llamaban Bambi, Infant, Daisycutter, Grasshopper y Agent Orange. La tendencia tampoco es nueva: del pasado tenemos el Gas Mostaza, los Angel Chasers [dos latas-balas unidas con una cadena para mayor destrucción] y el Peacemaker, por nombrar algunos).

  Paul Dickson

  Ángel, Pasado, Impacto

  "Las reglas oficiales: 5.427 leyes, principios y axiomas que le ayudarán a enfrentarse a crisis, plazos, mala suerte, comportamientos groseros, burocracia y ataques de objetos inanimados".

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• 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.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Men, Wife, Littles

  Thomas Smart Hughes, Thomas Sherlock, Jeremy Taylor (1837). “Summaries of the sermons and discourses of Sherlock and Jeremy Taylor”, p.309

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• Incluso cuando los adultos sienten que su seguridad está amenazada, puede que no seamos capaces de verlo en la superficie. Los bebés reaccionan como si estuvieran en peligro si se les molesta o se les deja caer de repente, si se asustan por ruidos fuertes, luces intermitentes, etc.

  Abraham Maslow

  Moda, Luz, Seguridad

  Abraham Maslow "Una teoría de la motivación humana", Lulu.com

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• Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold?

  Thomas Traherne

  Book, Childhood, World

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.152, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A falta de prevenir el daño al niño, el criterio del "interés superior del niño" es insuficiente para servir de interés estatal imperioso que anule los derechos fundamentales de los padres..... Sugerir lo contrario sería el equivalente lógico a afirmar que el Estado tiene autoridad para disolver familias estables y redistribuir su población infantil para proporcionar a cada niño la "mejor familia". No es competencia del Estado tomar decisiones importantes sobre la custodia de los hijos simplemente porque podría tomar una decisión "mejor".

  Barbara Madsen

  Niños, Derechos, Adopción

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• Cuando el suelo estaba parcialmente desnudo de nieve, y unos pocos días cálidos habían secado un poco su superficie, era agradable comparar los primeros signos tiernos del año recién nacido que acababa de asomar con la majestuosa belleza de la vegetación marchita que había resistido al invierno, al menos la hierba decente que viste la naturaleza viuda.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Hierba, primavera, invierno

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• We see the water of a river flowing uninterruptedly and passing away, and all that floats on its surface, rubbish or beams of trees, all pass by. Christian! So does our life. . .I was an infant, and that time has gone. I was an adolescent, and that too has passed. I was a young man, and that too is far behind me. The strong and mature man that I was is no more. My hair turns white, I succumb to age, but that too passes; I approach the end and will go the way of all flesh. I was born in order to die. I die that I may live. Remember me, O Lord, in Thy Kingdom!

  Tijon de Zadonsk

  Christian, Spiritual, Strong

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• To make love is to become like this infant again. We grope with our mouths toward the body of another being, whom we trust, who takes us in her arms. We rock together with this loved one. We move beyond speech. Our bodies move past all the controls we have learned. We cry out in ecstasy, in feeling. We are back in a natural world before culture tried to erase our experience of nature. In this world, to touch another is to express love; there is no idea apart from feeling, and no feeling which does not ring through our bodies and our souls at once.

  Susan Griffin

  Sex, Moving, Past

  Susan Griffin (1981). “Pornography and Silence: Culture's Revolt Against Nature”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• John's baptism...was a radical act of individual commitment to belong to the true people of God, based on personal confession and repentance... This is one of the main reasons that I do not believe in baptizing infants, who cannot make this personal commitment or confession or repentance. John's baptism was an assault on the very assumptions that give rise to much infant baptism.

  John Piper

  Believe, Commitment, People

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• Amo al Señor Jesucristo y a Su Iglesia, que ha sido restaurada en la tierra en nuestros días. Atesoro las enseñanzas de Su santa vida desde niño recién nacido hasta hombre resucitado, Hijo de Dios.

  Margaret D. Nadauld

  Jesús, Enseñanza, Hijo

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• As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.

  Adrienne Rich

  Madre, Corazón, Hijo

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• Circumcision in the United States is routinely performed without anesthesia, though anesthesia reduces the infant's stress and prevents infection and blood clots.

  Warren Farrell

  Stress, Blood, United States

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• It's similar to the way you feel cuddling an infant or a kitten, when you want to squeeze it so hard you'd kill it.

  Zoë Heller

  Cuddling, Want, Way

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• To live without history is to live like an infant, constantly amazed and challenged by a strange and unnamed world.

  Joan Nestle

  History, World, Strange

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• La constante de gravitación es siempre la misma. Pero las constantes económicas -las elasticidades de la oferta y la demanda-, que dependen de la conciencia humana, pueden variar. La constitución del átomo, por así decirlo, y no sólo su posición, cambia bajo la influencia del entorno.

  Arthur Cecil Pigou

  Fuerte, Hombres, Emocional

  "La economía del bienestar". Libro de Arthur Cecil Pigou (4ª edición, 1932), Cap. 1 : Bienestar y bienestar económico, § 4, 1920.

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

  Ogden Nash

  Agreement, Adults, Shows

  Ogden Nash (1945). "The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash", New York : Modern Library

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• Most infants are geniuses. They're indomitable, fearless, and completely in harmony with a cosmic proclivity for growth. They're heroes because they walk directly through adversity with love and ardent resolve.

  Daniel Gillies

  Hero, Adversity, Fearless

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• No child is capable of speech until he has heard other human beings speak, and even two infants reared together cannot develop a language from scratch.

  Peter Farb

  Children, Two, Together

  PETER FARB (1973). “WORD PLAY WHAT HAPPENS WHEN PEOPLE TALK”

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• Casi todo el mundo subestima lo poderoso que puede ser el contacto de la mano de otra persona. La necesidad de ser tocado es algo tan primario, tan fundamental en nuestra existencia como seres humanos, que su verdadero impacto sobre nosotros puede ser difícil de expresar con palabras. Ese poder tampoco tiene necesariamente nada que ver con el sexo. Desde que somos bebés, aprendemos a asociar el contacto de una mano humana con la seguridad, el consuelo y el amor.

  Jim Butcher

  Sex, Powerful, Hands

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.262, Penguin

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• Soothing touch, whether it be applied to a ruffled cat, a crying infant, or a frightened child, has a universally recognized power to ameliorate the signs of distress. How can it be that we overlook its usefulness on the jangled adult as well? What is it that leads us to assume that the stressed child merely needs “comforting,” while the stressed adult needs “medicine”?

  Deane Juhan

  Children, Cat, Medicine

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• No se puede depender sólo del mercado, porque el mercado dirá: China necesita petróleo; China necesita carbón; China necesita lo que sea, y África tiene todas estas cosas en abundancia. Y nosotros vamos allí y las conseguimos, y cuanto más desarrollemos la economía china, cuanto mayor sea la fabricación, más necesitaremos los mercados mundiales, venderlo a los africanos, lo que de hecho podría muy bien destruir cualquier industria incipiente que esté intentando desarrollarse en el continente. Eso es lo que haría el mercado.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Oil, Chinese, Trying

  Interview with Lionel Barber and Alec Russell, www.ft.com. April 3, 2007.

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• Your God is not our God! Your God loves your people and hates mine! He folds his strong protecting arms lovingly about the paleface and leads him by the hand as a father leads an infant son.

  Jefe Seattle

  God, Strong, Father

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• ... while infants will sync with the human voice regardless of language, they later become habituated to the rhythms of their own language and culture ... ... humans are tied to each other by hierarchies of rhythms that are culture-specific and expressed through language and body movement.

  Edward T. Hall

  Voice, Culture, Movement

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