Infant Mortality Rate

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

    “Q: Have you made personal sacrifices for the sake of your career?
    A: Leaving a three-month-old infant in another person’s house for nine hours, five days a week is a personal sacrifice.”
    —Alice Cort (20th century)

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

    “Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty—excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable—should persist after the beauty was gone.”
    —Mary A. [Elizabeth, Countess Von] Arnim (1866–1941)