Infant Mortality Rate

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

    “The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.”
    —Denis Diderot (1713–1784)

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

    “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)