Quotes about babies
Samuel Johnson - Life and Conversations of Dr. Samuel Johnson: Founded Chiefly Upon Boswell.
Babies do not want to hear about babies they like to be told of giants and castles.
Dave Barry -
It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin.
Richelle Mead - The Fiery Heart
Relax, having kids is years away. But can you imagine? Your brains, my charm, our collective good looks... then add in the usual physical abilities dhampirs get. It's really not even fair to everyone else.
Emme Rollins - Dear Rockstar
Every bride is beautiful. It’s like newborn babies or puppies. They can’t help it.
Emily Williams - Letters to Eloise
Shrieking Brooke’s name as loudly as I could, out in the corridor, I brought her running quickly to my room.‘What’s happened, what’s wrong?’ she immediately cried concerned, legging it up the stairs two at a time. She appeared breathless outside the kitchen door. Brian appeared sleepily at his door too, awoken by the noise, and watched us.‘She’s moving,’ I cried.‘What? Flutters like before?’‘No more, here feel.’ I grabbed her hand and pushed it down onto myexposed belly. Brian averted his eyes a
Benjamin J. Carey - Barefoot in November
At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel.
Lemony Snicket - Horseradish
Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.
Johnny Depp -
The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
Barbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible
A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and crow it to the world. But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after--oh, that' s love by a different name.
David Cross - I Drink for a Reason
Abandoned babies are unfortunate unwanted results of a once urgent desire to have an orgasm
Stephen Colbert - I Am America
America used to live by the motto "Father Knows Best." Now we're lucky if "Father Knows He Has Children." We've become a nation of sperm donors and baby daddies.
Abhijit Naskar - Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting
Let your child see you doing a good deed instead of you telling him or her to do it, and the little child shall one day grow up to become a real kind human being.
Tahmima Anam - The Good Muslim
She felt the urge to tell him more, to explain about the abortions she had done after the war, and that she hadn’t realised until later, much later, that she had racked up a debt she was still struggling to repay. How could he know – he was just a soldier, he had killed as a matter of principle, but the war babies, the children of rape, had been left to junior doctors, the volunteers in ragged tents on the outskirts of town.
Kamand Kojouri -
Babies cry at birth because it is the first time they experience separation from love.
Diana Abu-Jaber - The Language of Baklava: A Memoir
Marry, don't marry,' Auntie Aya says as we unfold layers of dough to make an apple str
Karl Pilkington -
There was some women in a café the other week that I was sat in, and she came up and she sat down with her mate and she was talkin' loudly goin' on about "oh the baby's lovely." They said it's got, er, lovely big eyes, er, really big hands and feet. Now that doesn't sound like a nice baby to me. I felt like sayin' it sounds like a frog. But I thought I don't know her, there's only so much you can say to a stranger. I don't know what kept me from sayin' it.
George Carlin -
When I ask how old your toddler is, I don't need to hear '27 months.' 'He's two' will do just fine. He's not a cheese. And I didn't really care in the first place.
Jennifer Davis - Too
Newborn babies can't do much on their own-They can't eat or walk or talk on the phone-But every parent is sure their creation is without a doubt a tremendous sensation.
Catherine Asaro - The Fire Opal
Don't go to sleep, Ginger-Sun.""Draz-""I know," he muttered, "'Behave, Baz. She's been through a lot. And don't make a baby for at least three months.'""They told you not to touch me for three months?""Let's just say it was strongly suggested.
Anne Enright - Yesterday's Weather
He's fine. He's fine,' he kept saying as the baby became ever more cranky and bewildered; screaming in terror if she tried to put him down.'Why should he be unhappy?' she wanted to say. 'He has had so few days in this world. Why should the unhappiness start here?
Sandra Dallas - A Quilt for Christmas
You may hate being pregnant, but the minute the baby is born, she is God's precious child, given to you as a gift.
Abhijit Naskar - Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting
Let your child be the torch of truth and they shall shine over the entirety of the human society brightening even the darkest corners.
Kate Atkinson - Life After Life
Pamela produced placid babies. "They don't tend to turn feral until they're two," she said.
Abhijit Naskar - Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting
There is nothing glorious about creating life out of passionate penetration. Even the animals can do that. The real glory comes when the life you create becomes the help in the lives of countless other humans.
Abhijit Naskar - Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting
Do not raise creepy crawlers my dear braveheart parents. Raise mighty humans with Himalayan strength in their veins. Give them the voice that has gone extinct in today’s society. And if there is only one thing you could give to your children, then give them courage – courage to pursue their passion – courage to trample every obstacle in their path – courage to keep walking even when their heart bleeds in agony.
Diana Gabaldon - The Fiery Cross
For my sake,” he said firmly, addressing the air in front of him as though it were a tribunal, “I dinna want ye to bear another child. I wouldna risk your loss, Sassenach,” he said, his voice suddenly husky. “Not for a dozen bairns. I’ve daughters and sons, nieces and nephews, grandchildren—weans enough.”He looked at me directly then, and spoke softly.“But I’ve no life but you, Claire.”He swallowed audibly, and went on, eyes fixed on mine.“I did think, though . . . if ye do want another child .
Chinonye J. Chidolue -
Like stars are to the sky, so are the children to our world. They deserve to shine!
Louise Erdrich - The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year
Our baby gives herself to me completely. There is no hesitation, no reservation, no holding back, no coldness, no craft, no tremor or fear in her love. Although our relationship may encompass tears, frustration, even fury, it is an utterly reliable bond. As it grows, her love is literally unadulterated. Her love is wholly of the child, pure in its essence as children are in their direct passions. Children do not love wisely, but perhaps they love the best of all.
Steven Magee -
High powered radio frequency (RF) transmitters really need to be reclassified as an industrial application and banned out of residential communities that have developing babies and children.
Caitlin Moran - How to Be a Woman
Every woman who chooses - joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire - not to have a child does womankind a massive favour in the long term. We need more women who are allowed to prove their worth as people; rather than being assessed merely for their potential to create new people. After all, half those new people we go on to create are also women - presumably themselves to be judged, in their futures, for not making new people. And so it will go on and on...
Abhijit Naskar - Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting
Human making is our mission, but if you break the very soul of the would-be humans, then there will be no human to raise.
Abhijit Naskar - Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting
Let your children nourish their knack, for that knack shall one day provide them with the way to live with dignity and contentment.
Catherine Barnhoorn - Mila's Meals: The Beginning & The Basics
When feeding your children, do you want to fill their tummies? Or nourish their bodies?
Elena Ferrante - The Lost Daughter
A woman's body does a thousand different things, toils, runs, studies, fantasizes, invents, wearies, and meanwhile the breasts enlarge, the lips of the sex swell, the flesh throbs with a round life that is yours, your life, and yet pushes elsewhere, draws away from you although it inhabits your belly, joyful and weighty, felt as a greedy impulse and yet repellent, like an insect's poison injected into a vein.
Amit Kalantri -
When I see an evil person, I cannot believe that once he was an innocent and sweet baby.
V.C. Andrews - Flowers in the Attic
Go on, glare your eyes at me, and cry and plead, and talk tome about money and what it can buy. But it can't buy back a child once he's dead!
V.C. Andrews - Flowers in the Attic
Look at you, standing there in your iron- gray dress, feeling piousand self- righteous while you starve small children!
Richard Hughes - A High Wind in Jamaica
Being nearly four years old, she was certainly a child: and children are human (if one allows the term "human" a wide sense): but she had not altogether ceased to be a baby: and babies are of course not human--they are animals, and have a very ancient and ramified culture, as cats have, and fishes, and even snakes: the same in kind as these, but much more complicated and vivid, since babies are, after all, one of the most developed species of the lower vertebrates. In short, babies have minds wh
Sylvia Plath - Ariel
Nick and the CandlestickI am a miner. The light burns blue. Waxy stalactitesDrip and thicken, tearsThe earthen wombExudes from its dead boredom. Black bat airsWrap me, raggy shawls, Cold homicides.They weld to me like plums.Old cave of calcium Icicles, old echoer.Even the newts are white,Those holy Joes.And the fish, the fish ----Christ! they are panes of ice,A vice of knives, A piranha Religion, drinkingIts first communion out of my live toes. The candleGulps and recovers its small altitude,Its
Michael Lewis - Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood
Memory loss is the key to human reproduction. If you remembered what new parenthood was actually like you wouldn’t go around lying to people about how wonderful it is, and you certainly wouldn’t ever do it twice.
Rebecca Solnit - The Faraway Nearby
When my friends began to have babies and I came to comprehend the heroic labor it takes to keep one alive, the constant exhausting tending of a being who can do nothing and demands everything, I realized that my mother had done all of these things for me before I remembered. I was fed; I was washed; I was clothed; I was taught to speak and given a thousand other things, over and over again, hourly, daily, for years. She gave me everything before she gave me nothing.
Judith Martin - Common Courtesy: In Which Miss Manners Solves the Problem That Baffled Mr. Jefferson
We are all born rude. No infant has ever appeared yet with the grace to understand how inconsiderate it is to disturb others in the middle of the night.
Denise Sevier Fries - Parca's Forsaken
Smile at the Fates and you will feel less their Slave.
Linda Becker -
Still the most magical day of my life was the day I became a mom.
Liezi - Lieh-tzu: A Taoist Guide to Practical Living
In infancy, our blood is strong and our energy is plentiful. Mind and body, thought and action are one. Everything we do is in harmony with the natural order. The infant is not affected by things that happen around him. Virtue and ethics cannot restrain his will. Naked and free of social conventions, he follows the natural path of the heart.
Shannon L. Alder -
So many people think that they are not gifted because they don’t have an obvious talent that people can recognize because it doesn’t fall under the creative arts category—writing, dancing, music, acting, art or singing. Sadly, they let their real talents go undeveloped, while they chase after fame. I am grateful for the people with obscure unremarked talents because they make our lives easier---inventors, organizers, planners, peacemakers, communicators, activists, scientists, and so forth. Howe
Gabriel García Márquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude
But the lucidity of her old age allowed her to see, and she said so many times, that the cries of children in their mothers' wombs are not announcements of ventriloquism or a faculty for prophecy but an unmistakable sign of an incapacity for love.
Ogden Nash - Free Wheeling
Everybody who has a baby thinks everybody who hasn't a baby ought to have a baby,Which accounts for the success of such plays as the Irish Rose of Abie,The idea apparently being that just by being fruitfulYou are doing something beautiful,Which if it is trueMeans that the common housefly is several million times more beautiful than me or you.
Jeanette Winterson - Sexing the Cherry
When Jordan was a baby he sat on top of me much as a fly rests on a hill of dung. And I nourished him as a hill of dung nourishes a fly, and when he had eaten his fill he left me.Jordan...I should have named him after a stagnant pond and then I could have kept him, but I named him after a river and in the flood-tide he slipped away.
Diana Gabaldon - Dragonfly in Amber
Babies are soft. Anyone looking at them can see the tender, fragile skin and know it for the rose-leaf softness that invites a finger's touch. But when you live with them and love them, you feel the softness going inward, the round-cheeked flesh wobbly as custard, the boneless splay of the tiny hands. Their joints are melted rubber, and even when you kiss them hard, in the passion of loving their existence, your lips sink down and seem never to find bone. Holding them against you, they melt and
Peggy O'Mara -
Don't stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your baby. Go to your baby a million times. Demonstrate that people can be trusted, that the environment can be trusted, that we live in a benign universe.
Christine Feehan - Ruthless Game
We have to actually choose a name," Kane murmured above her head. "We can't keep calling him 'baby.' When he's fifteen he might resent it.
Christine Feehan - Ruthless Game
Sebastian it is. You can tell me what a patron saint is later, since I have no knowledge of such things. Sebastian Kane."Sebastian Kane Cannon. You're going to marry me and use my last name, right?""Is that supposed to be a proposal?
George W. Bush -
It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.
Mara Altman - Sparkle
Congratulations is a societal burp that follows a positive act. When you graduate AA, you get a congratulations. When you throw back three bottles of whiskey in one night, you do not. For a species that is interested in furthering its kind, no one will congratulate you for succeeding in one more day of spinsterhood. If you follow the Congratulation Super Highway, you will get engaged, married and then have children. Getting a congratulations has never been so easy. Just have some unprotected sex
Nikola Tesla -
When a child is born its sense-organs are brought in contact with the outer world. The waves of sound, heat and light beat upon its feeble body, its sensitive nerve-fibres quiver, the muscles contract and relax in obedience: a gasp, a breath, and in this act a marvelous little engine, of inconceivable delicacy and complexity of construction, unlike any on earth, is hitched to the wheel-work of the Universe.
Caitlin Moran - How to Be a Woman
Because this injunction for all women to have children isn't in any way logical. If you take a moment to consider the state of the world, the thing you notice is that there are plenty of babies being born; the planet really doesn't need all of us to produce more babies.
Thich Nhat Hanh - Being Peace
Please don't wait until the doctors tell you that you are going to have a baby to begin to take care of it. It is already there. Whatever you are, whatever you do, your baby will get it. Anything you eat, any worries that are on your mind will be for him or her. Can you tell me that you cannot smile? Think of the baby, and smile for him, for her, for the future generations. Please don't tell me that a smile and your sorrow just don't go together. It's your sorrow, but what about your baby? It's
Abhijit Naskar - Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting
Feed your child ideas of peace, harmony and compassion but at the same time give them courage to defend their identity and dignity.
Debasish Mridha -
Babies are living dolls with dancing smiles that come from the stars to still our hearts.
Debasish Mridha -
A baby is as pure as an angel and as fresh as a blooming flower.
Debasish Mridha -
It is a smile of a baby that makes life worth living.
Agona Apell - The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning Men from Rot to Rock
There is only one thing worse than a little baby who won't stop crying: it is a big baby who won't stop whining about it
Betsy Cornwell - Mechanica
The love between friends could create life.
Roseanne Barr -
The most out-there thing I’m saying is, ‘Don’t have babies. Don’t get married and have kids. Have a larger life than that.
J.R. Ward - The King
Abruptly, the sea of people parted . . . and then there they were. Bella, with Nalla in her arms, Z standing beside his girls. Beth broke down all over again as the female came forward. God, it was impossible not to remember how Nalla had started this, putting into motion the need that had become undeniable. Bella was tearing up, too, as she stopped. “We just want to say yay!” At that moment, Nalla reached out to Beth, a gummy smile on her face, pure joy radiating out. No turning that down, nope
Frank A. Oski -
Imagine that the world had created a new 'dream product' to feed and immunize everyone born on earth. Imagine also that it was available everywhere, required no storage or delivery, and helped mothers plan their families and reduce the risk of cancer. Then imagine that the world refused to use it.
Kamand Kojouri -
The first music I ever heard was only one hundred and sixty days after I was conceived. Da dum Da dum Da dum Have you ever heard the sound a blessing makes? This is it. The first thing I ever saw was only one hundred and eighty days after I was conceived. It was a bright light soft like clouds warm like candles. Have you ever seen the colour of a blessing? This is it. The first time I ever suffered was in the three thousand and sixty seconds after I was born. I listened for her heartbeat. I
Iris Marion Young -
Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality.
John Stevenson -
A mother does not become pregnant in order to provide employment to medical people. Giving birth is an ecstatic jubilant adventure not available to males. It is a woman's crowning creative experience of a lifetime.
Nancy Mitford - The Blessing
A pair of young mothers now became the centre of interest. They had risen from their lying-in much sooner than the doctors would otherwise have allowed. (French doctors are always very good about recognizing the importance of social events, and certainly in this case had the patients been forbidden the ball the might easily have fretted themselves to death.) One came as the Duchesse de Berri with l’Enfant du Miracle, and the other as Madame de Montespan and the Duc du Maine. The two husbands, th
Sharon Kay Penman - Time and Chance
Well, dearest, what would you tell a farmer who had an over-abundant harvest? To plant less, of course!"..."I am not complaining about the frequency of the planting," she said. "I’d just rather not reap a crop every year.
Amanda Craig -
Few pretty and privileged young women really understand the essential injustice of biology...For most of her life as a woman, the rules were perfectly clear cut: other women were the enemy, and all love was war. She had rejected feminism, quite openly, as a crutch for the envious and ugly, and regarded married women as holding the upper hand if, unlike her own mother, they had any strength of character. The weaknesses and dependencies imposed by fecundity had never entered into her calculations.
Chinonye J. Chidolue -
Abort the thought, save the baby
Steven Magee -
Understanding why so many western women are giving birth to unnaturally large babies that either damage the birth canal or will not fit down it is one of the greatest challenges to modern medicine.
Nancy S. Mure - Bust Through Any Plateau in 3 E
The natural cure for sterility is a natural diet along with a home toxin detox.
Paula Poundstone -
There are those wonderful moments of clarity in life when one is reminded how irreparably flawed we humans are. Once, when I was nineteen, on the subway in Boston I lost my balance slightly and bumped into an elderly woman. I quickly apologized and she replied, "Well, hold on to something, stupid." There it is. That's it. That's it in a nutshell. I don't want to sound negative, but I think every fetus should be shown a film of that incident, maybe projected up on the uterine wall, and then asked
Debasish Mridha -
Babies are the buds of life ready to bloom like a fresh flower to refresh humanity.
Lish McBride - Necromancer
You know what the great thing about babies is? They are like little bundles of hope. Like the future in a basket.
Dark Jar Tin Zoo - Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.
She gave me money to buy condoms, and instead I bought a book of baby names. That’s life. That’s love. That’s fiscally irresponsible.
Marion Chesney - The Ghost and Lady Alice
He was a small, chubby little man with a perpetual air of sadness about him, making him look like a baby that has dropped its rattle.
Debasish Mridha -
Babies are the buds of imagination that are ready to bloom with lights of love and affection.
Andrew Galasetti - These Colors Don't Run
Ain’t nothing worse to a mama than losing her baby—
Amit Kalantri - Wealth of Words
Parents expect only two things from their children, obedience in their childhood and respect in their adulthood.
Amit Kalantri - Wealth of Words
Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
With regard to things such as independence, mental capabilities, and sexuality, a very old man is nothing but a gigantic infant with white hair and wrinkles.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
Many of the boys and men who are regarded as immature by some females are so deemed merely because they do not want to get married someday … or soon.
Amanda Craig -
Family is all politics. Everyone hates each other’s guts, if they’re honest… Most brothers and sisters try to top each other, given the chance; you always get the worst wars in countries with big families….People have kids because they go soft in the head, tarts especially. They forget what it’s like to be a kid themselves and want to remember through their own. They don’t want us, not real brand-new people who puke and criticise and tell them to bog off: they want their own frigging innocence b
Roberto Hogue - Real Secrets of Sex: A Women's Guide on How to Be Good in Bed
Never give a lousy person the opportunity to create lousy babies.
Dave Barry -
The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida.
Michelle Hodkin - The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
Why?' He asked.'Why what?' What could I say? Noah, despite you being an asshole, or maybe because of it, I'd like to rip off your clothes and have your babies. Don't tell.
Abhijit Naskar - Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting
Let them learn at school whatever they learn to pass the examinations, but at home let the education that you provide be the kind that widens their perceptions and takes away the germs of prejudices that infect them while they are out in the world.
Ursula K. Le Guin - Lavinia
There is not much you can say about a baby unless you are talking with its father or another mother or nurse; infants are not part of the realm of ordinary language, talk is inadequate to them as they are inadequate to talk.
Azelene Williams - INFERTILITY Road to Hell and Back
The children we bring into the world are small replicas of ourselves and our husbands; the pride and joy of grandfathers and grandmothers. We dream of being mothers, and for most of us that dreams are realised naturally. For this is the Miracle of Life.
Robert Kirkman - Vol. 26: Call to Arms
You tell me I have to crush a field of babies to keep breathing? Sure. You say people who rely on me aren't going to live unless I turn someone's head into a bowl of gravy? I'm there. I don't feel bad about it. I don't think about it. It just is what it is. It's survival.
A.J. Beirens -
Abortion is not allowedbecause apparently it is against the law of god.Yes, that butter-wouldn't-melt deitywho ordered babies to be slaughtered,killed all the first-born in EgyptAnd caused an entire human race to drown.From: "Gesels van een imaginaire god"(Scourges of an imaginary god)
Jean Liedloff - The Continuum Concept: In Search Of Happiness Lost
A baby's cry is precisely as serious as it sounds.
Kelly Barnhill - The Girl Who Drank the Moon
She is doing that on purpose, he thought as he tried to force his own smile away from his wide, damp jaws. She is being adorable as some sort of hideous ruse, to spite me. What a mean baby!...Do not fall in love with that baby...
Abhijit Naskar - Human Making is Our Mission: A Treatise on Parenting
Human making is our mission.