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.
Alice Meynell

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
Ambrose Bierce

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.
Michel de Montaigne

Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
Adam Clarke

Finding that no religion is based on facts and cannot be true, I began to reflect what must be the condition of mankind trained from infancy to believe in error.
Robert Owen

Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life.
Herbert Read

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.
John Updike

Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy.
Samuel Rutherford

Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.
George Mason

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
Ambrose Bierce

I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.
Tina Weymouth

In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders.
Jack Kingston

In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.
Henri Bergson

In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
Charles de Montesquieu

Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.
Antonio Porchia

Joint-stock companies are yet in their infancy, and incorporated capital, instead of being a thing which can be overturned, is a thing which is becoming more and more indispensable.
William Graham Sumner

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.
Bill Cosby

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.
Thomas Jane

Nations, like men, have their infancy.
Henry Bolingbroke

Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the measles.
William Lilly