Baby Quotes
From bringing babies into the world to raising babies there has been much said on this sweetest of topics. The following quotes are from many sources; as a collection they delight with both sincerity, reverence and a great deal of humor.
“It was the tiniest thing I ever put my whole life into.” Terri Guillemets “You were born in a merry hour.” Shakespeare “There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies” Winston Churchill “Babies are such a nice way to start people.” Don Herrold “If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.” Vincent Van Gogh “Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” Elizabeth Stone “Over my heart in the days that have flown, No love like mother-love ever has shown.” Barbara Akers Allen “A baby is a blank cheque made payable to the human race.” Barbara Christine Siefert “A new baby is like the beginning of all things—wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities.” Edna L. Le Shan “Children are our most valuable natural resource.” Herbert Hoover “Child of the pure unclouded brow and dreaming eyes of wonder.” Lewis Carroll “Father asked us what was God’s noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad; babies never are.” Louisa May Alcott “The great source of terror to infancy is solitude.” William James “A baby is born with the need to be loved—and never outgrows it.” Frank A. Clark “Motherhood is, after all, woman’s great and incomparable work.” Edward Carpenter “People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.” Leo J. Burke “There never was a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.” Ralph Waldo Emerson “I was cesarean born. You can’t really tell, although whenever I leave a house, I go through a window.” Steven Wright “I always wondered why babies spent so much time sucking their thumbs. Then I tasted baby food.” Robert Orben “Babies are always more trouble than you thought—and more wonderful.” Charles Osgood “Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.” John Wilmot “Being a father, well, I don’t know if this is a change, but it makes me want to get out of here faster. Get off the clock. Just ‘cause the baby is my reason for living, my reason for coming to work.” Richard Dean Anderson “You can learn things from children. How much patience you have for instance.” Franklin P. Jones “Adam and Eve had many advantages but the principle one was that they escaped teething.” Mark Twain “Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.” Peter Ustinov “Parenthood: the state of being better chaperoned than before you were married.” Marceline Cox “If your baby’s beautiful and perfect, never cries or fusses, sleeps on schedule and burps on demand, an angel all the time, you’re the grandma.” Theresa Bloomingdale “First you have to teach a child to talk. Then you have to teach it to be quiet.” Prochnow “When I was born I was so surprised I couldn’t talk for a year and a half.” Gracie Allen “A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.” Enid Bagnold “A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be.” Anonymous “I don’t know why they say `you have a baby.’ The baby has you.” Gallagher “Diaper backwards spells repaid. Think about it.” Marshall McLuhan “A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.” Carl Sandburg “When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now, when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be.” James M. Barrie |  |
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