Infant Mortality Rate

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

    “To worry about spoiling an infant by comforting him when he cries is needless.... If you put the baby down and the baby cries, pick him up. His crying isn’t a habit you should try to break. Your baby can’t be taught not to cry.”
    —Lawrence Balter (20th century)

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

    “Whoever thinks his friend more important than his country, I rate him nowhere.”
    —Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)