Infant Mortality Rate

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

    “As some heads cannot carry much wine, so it would seem that I cannot bear so much society as you can. I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don’t get enough of it this year, I shall cry all the next.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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

    “We honor motherhood with glowing sentimentality, but we don’t rate it high on the scale of creative occupations.”
    —Leontine Young (20th century)