#infancy

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

— Antonio Porchia

#eternal #extreme #infancy #rest

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

#between #childhood #folly #human #human life

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

— Ambrose Bierce

#begins #heaven #infancy #lies #lying

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

#consequence #convinced #excellencies #few #few men

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

— Bill Cosby

#belong #between #communications #different #infancy

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

— Tina Weymouth

#deprived #i #idea #infancy #like

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. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

#assume #come #designated #growth #hand

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

— Jack Kingston

#democracy #ethiopia #infancy #leaders #must

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

— Samuel Rutherford

#glory #grace #infancy #more #than

At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#early #evolution #future #growing #growing up