“It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life. Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.” KnowsShouldWellsEnoughMotherBornHalfTalkingBoysBabyImportanceFilledTiredIntellectNonsenseHappy LifeInfantConceitTalking Nonsense Author:Augustus William Hare
“Take the life issue. This issue requires a president and an administration leading our nation to understand the importance of life. This whole faith-based initiative really ties into a larger cultural issue that we're working on. It begins to affect the life issue, as well as the human dignity issue, because when you're talking about welcoming people of faith to help people who are disadvantaged and are unable to defend themselves, the logical step is also those babies.” PeopleHumansWellsWholeHelpingHumorPoliticalNationsPresidentTalkingStepsIssuesBabyDignityImportanceWelcomeAdministrationTiesLogicalInitiativeHuman DignityPolitical HumorFaith BasedDisadvantagedCultural IssuesImportance Of Life Author:George W. Bush
“It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.” ShouldWellsMotherBornInspiringHalfBabyImportanceFilledIntellectInfantMothers DayConceit Author:Augustus Hare
“I wanted to be supportive of parents rather than to scold them. The book set out very deliberately to counteract some of the rigidities of pediatric tradition, particularly in infant feeding. It emphasized the importance of great differences between individual babies, of the need for flexibility and of the lack of necessity to worry constantly about spoiling.” NeedsBookWantedIndividualParentDifferencesWorryBabyTraditionImportanceFeedingSupportiveFlexibilityInfantRigidity Author:Benjamin Spock
“There are some films that arrive here from the international festival circuit almost incandescent with self-importance. They hover into the cinema in a kind of floating trance at how challenging and moving they are. They are films with a profound reluctance to get over themselves. They look up at the sceptical observer with the saucer-eyed saintliness of a baby seal in culling season, or a charity mugger smilingly wishing a nice day on the retreating back of a passer-by. One such is Babel.” LooksKindSelfFilmMovingWishChallengesNiceBabySeasonsImportanceProfoundCharityInternationalCinemaLook UpGet OverFloatingObserversFestivalsSealsCircuitsTranceSelf-importanceReluctanceNice DayBabelMuggersCulling Author:Peter Bradshaw