{"quotes":[{"text":"Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","adolescent","adolescents","adult","adulthood","adults","africa","african","ancient","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","child","children","dead","death","deep","dependence","dependent","develop","developing","development","dictum","dictums","epigram","epigrams","existence","four-stages-of-life","funny","gnome","gnomes","grandparent","grandparents","grow","growing","growth","humor","humorous","humour","immortal","immortality","independence","independent","infant","infants","insightful","life","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","mortal","mortality","newborn","newborns","old","old-age","old-age-home","old-age-homes","phase","phases","philosopher","prepubescent","process","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","retire","retired","retiree","retirees","retirement","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","senile","senility","south-africa","south-african","stage","stages","stages-of-life","teenage","teenager","teenagers","thought-provoking","thoughtful","young","youth","youths"],"id":6452,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"I can only begin the process of saving myself when I surrender to the reality that I can’t. And what greater place to surrender that reality than to an infant who surrendered Himself to me so that I might surrender myself to Him.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["christmas","god","holidays","inability","infant","jesus","jesus-christ","manger","reality","salvation","save","saving","surrender","surrendering"],"id":36083,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"This is the wonder of Christmas, that in the solitary form of an impoverished infant God has handed me everything that I could never create so that I can be everything that I could never be.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["birth","christmas","create","god","holidays","impoverished","infant","jesus","jesus-christ","possibilities","wonder"],"id":75430,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Do Not Dictate a Child through Someone, it Ruins the Child's Experience.","author":"Vineet Raj Kapoor","tags":["child","childhood","dictate","dictation","discipline","early-childhood","experience","guidance","infant","mentoring","order","parenting","philosophy","psychology","rules","third-party","thumb-rules","to-do"],"id":85003,"author_id":"Vineet+Raj+Kapoor"},{"text":"If an infant had the capacity to think hard about this world, it would have wanted to go back to its mother's womb again.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["another","back","capacity","child","infancy","infant","mother","motherhood","philosophical","philosophy-of-life","spiritual","spirituality","think","wisdom","womb","world"],"id":99330,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"A Jewish man with his parents alive is half the time a helpless infant!","author":"Philip Roth","tags":["anxiety","infant","insecurity","jewish","manhood","self-doubt"],"id":122836,"author_id":"Philip+Roth"},{"text":"Love at infancy is the strongest and puriest of all, it is mixed with infatuation and deep happiness. Persistent smile brings out hollow dimples, and persistent frowns brings out hollow wrinkles.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["camila-and-anas-ahmed","dimples","dimples-and-wrinkles","feelings","happiness","infancy","infant","infatuation","love","love-at-first-sight","loving","michael-bassey-johnson","persistence","wrinkles"],"id":150603,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"It howled execration upon the dim camarine world of its nativity wail on wail while he lay there gibbering with palsied jawhasps, his hands putting back the night like some witless Paraclete beleaguered with all limbo's clamor.","author":"Cormac McCarthy","tags":["18","darkness","infant","limbo"],"id":171789,"author_id":"Cormac+McCarthy"},{"text":"There’s an infant part in our souls which longs for the lullaby truths of life every night for a tranquil slumber.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["cradle-song","every","infancy","infant","lullaby","night","part","sleep","sleeping","slumber","soul","soul","souls","spiritual","spiritual","spiritual-wisdom","spritual","tranquil","truth","truth-of-life","truth","wisdom"],"id":175857,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.","author":"Paul Hoffman","tags":["all","baby","childe","cynic","cynicism","enemy","eternal","even","humans","infant","know","knowledge","life","men","mewling","paul-hoffman","peapole","save","save-a-life","suppose","thomas-cale"],"id":237255,"author_id":"Paul+Hoffman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}