Infant Mortality Rates

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

    The infant child is not aware
    It has been eaten by the bear.
    —A.E. (Alfred Edward)

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

    [The] elderly and timid single gentleman in Paris ... never drove down the Champs Elysees without expecting an accident, and commonly witnessing one; or found himself in the neighborhood of an official without calculating the chances of a bomb. So long as the rates of progress held good, these bombs would double in force and number every ten years.
    Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)