#infant

Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#age group #america #brain #children #development

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority. ↗

— Brendan Francis

#authority #book #hands #infantryman #like

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor. ↗

— John Lithgow

#humor #infantile #senses #tend #wonderfully

Hiphop has remained in an infantile stage and has not been allowed to grow. ↗

— Slick Rick

#been #grow #hiphop #infantile #remained

It is remarkable that this people, though unarmed, dares attack an armed foe; the infantry defy the cavalry, and by their activity and courage generally prove victors. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

#armed #attack #cavalry #courage #dares

On my left the shooting had the sharp explosion of the infantry artillery, on my right could be heard the sporadic cannon shots thundering from the front, and up above the sky was clear and the sun bright. ↗

— Max Beckmann

#artillery #bright #cannon #clear #could

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#always #been #down #heads #heads down

I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else. ↗

— Bill Mauldin

#army #convinced #else #gets #gives

The Church does not dispense the sacrament of baptism in order to acquire for herself an increase in membership but in order to consecrate a human being to God and to communicate to that person the divine gift of birth from God. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#birth #catholicism #christianity #faith #god

It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's children lest they grow up to play their own part, to the erasure of the enemy's graveyards and holy places so that his hated name can be forgotten. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#crime #fear #graveyards #infanticide #murder