Infant Mortality Rate

Famous quotes containing the words infant, mortality and/or rate:

    “Sweet babe, in thy face
    Soft desires I can trace,
    Secret joys and secret smiles,
    Little pretty infant wiles.”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)

    “The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.”
    —William Dean Howells (1837–1920)

    “As a novelist, I cannot occupy myself with “characters,” or at any rate central ones, who lack panache, in one or another sense, who would be incapable of a major action or a major passion, or who have not a touch of the ambiguity, the ultimate unaccountability, the enlarging mistiness of persons “in history.” History, as more austerely I now know it, is not romantic. But I am.”
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)