Famous quotes containing the words infant, mortality and/or rate:
“A father who will pursue infant care tasks with ease and proficiency is simply a father who has never been led to believe he couldnt.”
—Michael K. Meyerhoff (20th century)
“Antiquity breached mortality with myths.
Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates
A cornice on the Third National Bank.”
—Allen Tate (18991979)
“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 (18991973)
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