quotations about babies
Something to live for came to the place,
Something to die for maybe,
Something to give even sorrow a grace,
And yet it was only a baby!
HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD
Only a Baby
Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
CHARLES DICKENS
Nicholas Nickleby
Nothing compares to becoming aware of the massive face of the universe hidden in a newborn's stare.
CURTIS TYRONE JONES
Mirrors of the Sun
Never give a lousy person the opportunity to create lousy babies.
ROBERTO HOGUE
Real Secrets of Sex
Ask yourself, Do I want a baby or do I want to make a cake? The answer will come to you like bells ringing.... For me, almost always, the answer was cake.
DIANA ABU-JABER
The Language of Baklava
A babe in a house is a well-spring of pleasure.
MARTIN F. TUPPER
Of Education
Most people make babies out to be very complicated, but the truth is they have only three moods:
MOOD ONE: Just about to cry.
MOOD TWO: Crying.
MOOD THREE: Just finished crying.
DAVE BARRY
attributed, Great Funny Quotes: Sweeten Your Life with Laughter
A sweet, new blossom of Humanity,
Fresh fallen from God's own home to flower on earth.
GERALD MASSEY
Wooed and Won
Oh, mother! laugh your merry note,
Be gay and glad, but don't forget
From baby's eyes look out a soul
That claims a home in Eden yet.
ETHEL LYNN BEERS
Weighing the Baby
Only a baby small dropped from the skies,
Only a laughing face, two sunny eyes;
Only two cherry lips, one chubby nose;
Only two little hands, ten little toes....
Only a baby small, never at rest;
Small, but how dear to us, God knoweth best.
MATTHIAS BARR
Only a Baby Small
He smiles, and sleeps!--sleep on
And smile, thou little, young inheritor
Of a world scarce less young: sleep on and smile!
LORD BYRON
Cain
A babe is fed with milk and praise.
CHARLES & MARY LAMB
The First Tooth
"Gently, please, gently!" she warned, as they crowded about her. "This is a baby, not a battle-ship!"
P.L. TRAVERS
Mary Poppins Comes Back
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.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
Sexing the Cherry
Shoulda gone to China. They give away babies like free iPods. They put them in guns and shoot them out at sporting events.
DIABLO CODY
Juno
"I have no name;
I am but two days old."
What shall I call thee?
"I happy am
Joy is my name."
Sweet joy befall thee!
WILLIAM BLAKE
Infant Joy
A little child born yesterday,
A thing on mother's milk and kisses fed.
HOMER
Hymn to Hermes
How lovely he appears! his little cheeks
In their pure incarnation, vying with
The rose leaves strewn beneath them.
LORD BYRON
Cain
A tight little bundle of wailing and flannel,
Perplex'd with the newly-found fardel of life.
F. LOCKER-LAMPSON
The Old Cradle
The baby's body lay in a bassinet. He was the size of a half loaf of bread, his bones light as a bird's and stretched with thin skin.
JODI PICOULT
Salem Falls