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)

“... the history of the race, from infancy through its stages of barbarism, heathenism, civilization, and Christianity, is a process of suffering, as the lower principles of humanity are gradually subjected to the higher.”
—Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)

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