Infant Mortality Rate

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

    “—the dark ajar, the rocks breaking with light,
    and undisturbed, unbreathing flame,
    colorless, sparkless, freely fed on straw,
    and, lulled within, a family with pets,
    —and looked and looked our infant sight away.”
    —Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

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

    “All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.”
    —William Faulkner (1897–1962)