Infant Mortality Rate

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

    “During a walk or in a book or in the middle of an embrace, suddenly I awake to a stark amazement at everything. The bare fact of existence paralyzes me... To be alive is so incredible that all I can do is to lie still and merely breathe—like an infant on its back in a cot. It is impossible to be interested in anything in particular while overhead the sun shines or underneath my feet grows a single blade of grass.”
    —W.N.P. Barbellion (1889–1919)

    “Antiquity breached mortality with myths.
    Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates
    A cornice on the Third National Bank.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.”
    —Samuel Butler (1835–1902)