Infancy

Famous quotes containing the word infancy:

“I am as true as truth’s simplicity,
And simpler than the infancy of truth.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“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 (1847–1922)

“Heaven lies about us in our infancy ... and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)